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This makes you despair.

"The SRA told the tribunal that Jackson had an obligation to deal with client files when he closed his practice. He should not have left them in his former office premises and should not ‘abnegate his responsibility’ for their safeguarding to the regulator"

This is plainly wrong. If you go bankrupt and hand the keys of your firm to the SRA then it is the SRA's problem. I do not think the SRA are quite prepared for what is going to happen in April 2020 when the Civil Liability Act strikes. There will be firms up and down the land going pop and handing the keys in.