Opinion – Page 6
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Opinion'No shocks': CLC sets out its stall
Council for Licensed Conveyancers chiefs explain what sets niche regulator apart from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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OpinionDoes your firm turn a blind eye to big billers behaving badly?
Partnerships might be able to ignore sexual misconduct or bullying, but the SRA will not.
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OpinionSafety in the City
For those within City firms charged with managing compliance and risk, the mood music from the regulator could have been more helpful.
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OpinionLetters roundup: 24 February 2023
Crypto protections, judging war crimes and sitting pretty in the library: your letters to the editor.
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OpinionRisks and regulatory changes to look out for
Sanctions, AML compliance, SRA fining powers and a new enforcement strategy - the complexity of law firm risk mitigation and compliance is ever increasing.
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OpinionWe can’t expect small-fry SRA to fight oligarchs and organised crime
The solicitors’ regulator is not equipped to issue £250m fines or investigate the biggest firms.
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OpinionLetters roundup: 9 December 2022
Struck off after 60 years and an inclusivity illusion: your letters to the editor.
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OpinionThe SRA and whistleblowing
The regulator has long encouraged whistleblowing. Now it wants to be recognised as an official body to which a whistleblowing disclosure can be made.
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OpinionTurns out the power-hungry SRA couldn’t be trusted
Regulator had no system in place for reporting larger fines. Yet it went ahead anyway.
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OpinionSolicitors should not police economic crime
A new addition to the public interest objectives is an attempt to advance specific government policy through regulatory manipulation. It must be resisted.
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OpinionSRA conduct rules intrude into private life
We must hope the regulator will deploy its new power judiciously and without recourse to dogma.
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OpinionMental health: The impact of SRA investigations
Regulator needs to do more in providing targeted support for all solicitors going through disciplinary investigations.
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OpinionPublic need protection from so-called ‘legal advisers’
The super-regulator says clients are satisfied with unregulated will-writers. But how do they know, when the clients are dead?
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OpinionLetters roundup: 5 August 2022
Legal aid, regulatory overreach, and first impressions: your letters to the editor.
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OpinionThe ins and outs of practice at the SDT
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Law & Practice (2nd edition) | Nigel West and Susanna Heley
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OpinionAvoiding the risks of arranging litigation loans
Recent coverage of clients feeling pressured into taking out loans has highlighted solicitors’ duties.
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OpinionWhy is Raab so keen to hand the SRA extra powers?
New fining limit has been rushed through to make it look as if the government is acting on 'enablers'.
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OpinionSRA fining power increase should not be conflated with sanctions regime
Raising the regulator's fining powers to £25,000 would risk the development of two separate approaches to policy on the imposition of penalties.