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• Diversity stats show ethnic minorities made up 35% of all 2011 SDT referrals »

  01/08/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  More than a third of all solicitors referred to the SDT in 2011 were black and minority ethnic individuals
• SRA and BSB told to improve regulation of immigration lawyers or risk losing their powers »

  01/08/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  The SRA and BSB have been warned to improve the way they regulate immigration practitioners or risk enforcement action by the Legal Services Board – including the ultimate sanction of losing their ability to regulate the area at all.
• Law Society voices concern over complaints proposals »

  01/08/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  The Law Society has responded to the Legal Ombudsman review of its scheme rules and case fee structure.
• Standard contractual terms between barristers and solicitors clear final hurdle »

  31/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  Standard contractual terms between solicitors and barristers are set to become a reality at long last after the LSB approved controversial changes to the cab-rank rule that will underpin them – albeit with some reluctance.
• Confidential SRA research uncovers non-compliance and bad attitudes over complaints »

  31/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  There is a “small but material rate of non-compliance” by solicitors with their complaints-handling requirements – and some bad attitudes towards complaints – confidential research by the SRA has found.
• Hope for small firms as another A-rated insurer enters professional indemnity market »

  25/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  Axis Specialty plc has become the second new A-rated insurer to enter the professional indemnity market for small law firms in a week.
• Personal liability risk discouraging people from becoming COLPs and COFAs »

  24/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  Wariness among individuals of becoming compliance officers – especially because of the risk of personal liability – has led to some firms nominating persons who lack the most relevant expertise, according to research.
• Government u-turn on scrapping criminal sanctions for breaches of money laundering regulations »

  20/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  The government has changed its mind over scrapping more than two dozen money laundering offences that can penalise lawyers for minor rule breaches, but has emphasised that minor failures should not lead to prosecution.
• Law Society makes the first step towards PII common proposal initiative  »

  17/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance, Practice Management
  The Law Society is seeking industry-wide support from brokers and insurers to use its professional indemnity insurance (PII) composite proposal form in the first step in the Law Society's drive towards a common proposal regime.
• In defence of big brands: ethics, back-up, customer focus and value, argues Co-op »

  16/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  Big brands providing legal services will face “risks and pressures” which are not present in smaller private practice law firms – but the measures in place to control them “are likely to be substantial”, a senior member of the Co-operative Legal Services team has claimed.
• Complex legal products risk the law’s own mis-selling scandal, ombudsman warns »

  11/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  The Chief Legal Ombudsman today warned of the risk of a payment protection insurance-type scandal engulfing the legal profession after collecting evidence of clients being sold complex and confusing legal products that they often struggled to understand.
• ETSOS publishes searching truth on compliance »

  10/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  ETSOS has published some useful guidance on how its ordering and quotation and referral systems can help conveyancers meet their compliance obligations.
• Judges “warming up” to QASA as row over solicitor-advocates rumbles on »

  09/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  There are more positive messages from the judiciary that they will take part in the new Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), and they are relaxed about the prospect of assessments being used for appeals against conviction, it was claimed last week.
• Good news day for solicitors: both strike-offs and negligence claims fall »

  09/07/12 Risk & Compliance, Risk & Compliance
  The number of solicitors struck off in the year to March dropped by 43%, while the number of negligence claims against solicitors reaching the High Court has also fallen, a flurry of new figures have shown.