Consumer watchdog bemoans client ignorance of complaints process
Legal Services Consumer Panel survey reveals widespread public confusion over how to report poor service.
Partner suspended for harassing colleague - but SDT allows anonymity
Junior colleague reported feeling humiliated after being harassed during work night out.
Team leader disqualified for exposing himself to colleagues
Incident involving non-solicitor employee related to an online training session held in 2022.
Solicitor acted for claimant and defendant
Practitioner showed a 'cavalier attitude' to the rules of professional conduct, tribunal finds.
Safeguarding clients and legal documents: Capita’s partnership with the SRA
(Sponsored content.) Neil Skellam at Capita highlights how the company supports the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) in safeguarding clients by managing, securing, and repatriating critical legal documentation during firm interventions.
AI regulation: What UK businesses need to know
The evolving AI regulatory landscape, the importance of adopting effective AI assurance mechanisms and the increasing role of AI-specific contractual clauses.
Decisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
Schooled by scandal
Shabana Mahmood demands changes to address SRA failures and prevent scandal akin to Axiom Ince from recurring. But how interventionist is the regulator now mandated to be?
A smorgasbord of navigable wisdom
Fiona du Feu reviews 'Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers (2nd edition)'.
Old chestnut back in season
Is momentum building again for a root-and-branch reform of legal services regulation?
Light relief?
What would a ‘light-touch’ approach to litigation funding regulation look like?