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The Solicitors Regulation Authority prepares for tech regulation
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is looking into who and what should be regulated as they look into playing a more active role in the legal technology industry. As more and more firms are bringing technology and innovation into the legal sector the SRA have...
Criminal Defense Touting
The SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) remain concerned over the reluctance by some to report criminal defence touting. Only one formal complaint has been made to the SRA about a solicitor touting in this area. The code of conduct states that solicitors are banned...
Britains legal industry brace for a no deal Brexit
Britain’s legal Industry brace for a no deal Brexit The UK is currently the second largest provider of legal services in the world and number one in Europe. But if a no deal Brexit goes ahead the future could be a lot less certain for Britain’s legal industry....
SRA Anti-Money Laundering Review
A recent review conducted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) found that, in the SRA’s views, a significant amount of law firms are not doing enough to prevent money laundering. The review of 59 practices did not highlight any evidence of actual money...
Solicitors “SEARCH”ing For Answers
The Brabners LLP V HMRC First Tier Tribunal (FTT) case involved whether electronic, local authority search fees paid to Searchflow (a specialised online search agency) by Brabners were to be treated as disbursements paid on behalf of their clients. This had been...
Changes to the SRA handbook
The SRA is introducing a new handbook which includes the new code of conduct that will come into effect at some point in 2019, although the exact date still remains unconfirmed. In 2011, the launch of the SRA handbook welcomed some changes that altered the legal...
Government reveals contingency justice plans for no-deal Brexit
The Ministry of Justice has published a technical notice about its plan for civil judicial cooperation in the unlikely event of a no-deal Brexit. The UK currently abides by EU rules to decide which country courts hear civil, family and commercial law cases...
Changes on the horizon for PI cover
In March this year, the SRA published a consultation paper on its proposal to make some changes to compulsory professional indemnity insurance (PII) cover for solicitors. This is not the first time that changes to cover have been proposed by the SRA. In November 2014,...
SRA’s message to firms: stop offering banking facilities to clients
The Solicitor’s Accounts Rules set out that only money that is linked to an underlying legal service should go through a client account. There must also be a proper connection with those receiving those funds and the legal service the firm has provided. It...
Making Tax Digital and VAT: are you ready?
Making Tax Digital (MTD) will commence in April 2019 under the current Government timetable. Initially this will only be for VAT purposes, with the wider roll out of MTD having been delayed until the system has been shown to work well for VAT and not...
