Legal regulation Archives

Former News International legal duo face solicitors tribunal

Legal Business

More than three years after it emerged that the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler had been hacked – leading…

Guest post: Where now for legal regulation? – A consensus to change the UK regulatory framework has emerged, but none over direction

Legal Business

A direct consequence of the government’s decision in May not to make any major changes to the regulatory framework for…

Guest post: DRIP – a torrent of mass surveillance seems more likely

Legal Business

Last week, the Home Secretary announced that, with all party agreement, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill – (DRIP…

Guest post: Light at the end of the tunnel for the SFO and a review of the last 12 months from David Green QC

Legal Business

Introducing the annual report for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the last financial year David Green, CB QC, director of…

Law Society pays £1m recruitment bill as Norton Rose Fulbright receives £435k

Legal Business

The Law Society paid out approaching £1m in recruitment fees over ten months in 2013, as Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) took…

Law Society pays £1m recruitment bill as Norton Rose receives £435k

Legal Business

The Law Society paid out approaching £1m in recruitment fees over ten months in 2013, as Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF)…

SRA votes to cut minimum PII cover from £2m to £500k despite fears over damage to legal brand

Legal Business

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has voted to cut the minimum compulsory cover for professional indemnity insurance (PII) from £2m…

Law Society asks Met Police to investigate Wonga for fake solicitor letters

Legal Business

The Law Society has asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate Wonga after it emerged that the UK’s biggest payday lender…

Law Society proposes significant cuts to practising certificate fee and compensation fund

Legal Business

The Law Society Group has put plans in place to slash lawyers’ practising certificate fees by almost 17% from the…

SRA announces replacement for outgoing chair Charles Plant

Legal Business

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today (24 June) announced that one of its board members, Enid Rowlands, will succeed outgoing…

Law Society back in black as intervention costs double and Hudson receives 19% pay rise

Legal Business

The Law Society’s latest financial accounts show that the cost of dealing with an increasing number of firms in financial…

‘Create an environment where you’re not necessary’ – Grayling tells LSB to work towards its abolition

Legal Business

The Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling yesterday (4 June) outlined plans for the Legal Services Board (LSB) to wind itself down…

SRA approves plans to broaden qualification route beyond training contracts

Legal Business

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board yesterday (21 May) formally approved an overhaul of its training regulations and continuing professional…

Comment: A precarious professionalism – Do City lawyers take ethics for granted?

Legal Business

The practice of law has flipped from vocation to business. Law firms and individual lawyers are measured explicitly in predominantly…

Legal reform: SRA unveils plans to cut red tape and promote competition

Sarah Downey

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has unveiled ambitious plans to overhaul key pillars of the regulation of the profession in…

‘Self-interested’ Law Society stripped of power to appoint SRA chair

Sarah Downey

Just days after the Legal Services Board (LSB) chairman delivered a scathing speech accusing the Law Society of being entirely…

DISSENT: A precarious professionalism

Legal Business

UCL’s Richard Moorhead argues the integrity and professionalism that City lawyers take for granted is all too easily swayed The…

SRA gets green light for radical training overhaul as board set to vote

Sarah Downey

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has received approval to push ahead with far-reaching proposals to overhaul legal training, with the results…

Legal regulation: Largest family justice reforms ‘for a generation’ usher in new single court

Francesca Fanshawe

The largest family justice reforms ‘for a generation’ will come into effect today (22 April), introducing a new combined Family…

Legal Services Board appoints BT general counsel and Ofcom competition director as members

Sarah Downey

Just weeks after bringing in a former chief executive of Cheshire and Kent County Councils, Sir Michael Pitt, to succeed…