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‘Missing the elephant in the room’ – SRA faces renewed scrutiny as LSB steps up pressure

Solicitors Regulation Authority SRA

‘Law firms are being subjected to increasing bureaucracy, costs and paperwork, while the regulator appears to miss the elephant in the room time and time again.’

The above, from Tony Williams – former global managing partner of Clifford Chance and one-time non-exec director of the Solicitors Regulation Authority – sums up the sense of frustration with the SRA that is prevalent in some quarters of the UK legal sector.

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