All Regulation and compliance articles – Page 115
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FeatureSQE: our regulator has listened
There is much to be welcomed in the SRA’s second consultation on reforms to the qualification process.
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FeatureSQE: high standards, more opportunities
Your regulator has set out a fuller picture of how the solicitors of the future might qualify.
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News‘Dumbing down’ fears over legal super-exam
The Solicitors Regulation Authority last week began its second consultation on the Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
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NewsOuter Temple Chambers hires solicitor after entity approval
New setup will help manage international queries.
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NewsEx-Kaim Todner directors fined for not disclosing money problems 'promptly'
Firm entered into company voluntary arrangement with creditors in 2013.
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NewsSolicitor who fleeced elderly clients jailed for four years
Giles Scott, 63, was a ‘pillar of the local community’ in Stearsby, North Yorkshire.
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OpinionGreat repeal bill – and EU lobbying
The EU lobbying transparency regime will still affect lawyers’ work post-Brexit.
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NewsNew alarm over role of McKenzie advisers
Paid McKenzie friend and his accomplice both guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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NewsFormer Parabis trainee lied to clients about struck-out claims
Jack Patrick Walker told it would be undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice.
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NewsLSB softens ‘prescriptive’ diversity approach
Consultation paper says some regulators have moved past 2011 guidance.
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News'Solicitor' warned over ‘meritless’ claim against two barristers
High Court judge refuses permission to refer barristers to bar regulator.
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NewsCity watchdog urged to exempt legal from new accountability regime
Senior managers regime could erode legal professional privilege and put lawyers in a conflict-of-interest situation, Law Society warns.
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NewsSociety: lifting reserved activity restrictions could threaten UK competitiveness
Chancery Lane was responding to additional questions from the Competition and Markets Authority on reserved legal activities.
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OpinionSeparation of powers, US-style
How a case involving dentists complicates the debate about splitting regulation from representation.
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NewsLSB outrage over IBA claim it is government-controlled
Chief executive says super-regulator takes decisions ‘without fear or favour from government’.
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FeatureEducation and training: take solicitors’ word for it
As ‘continuing competence’ becomes the mandatory professional development mantra, can the SRA just accept a solicitor’s pledge that they have put in the necessary work?
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OpinionLaw firms need cash to compete
External investment could transform the UK legal market within five years.
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NewsLeO: Handbook overhaul will ‘confuse’ clients
Complaints-handler joins multiple critics of SRA proposals to reform practising rules.
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NewsSRA will shut law firms over ‘dubious’ investment schemes
Firms warned over using banking services through client accounts.