by Sarah Haynes | May 15, 2025 | Article
The SRA has announced that they will again be running their AML and Sanctions data collection exercise this summer (in July rather than August/ September this year) and that it is a regulatory requirement to complete it. Further information, including various...
by Sarah Haynes | Apr 23, 2025 | Article
⚠️ Has your firm assessed your exposure to sanctions risks and put in place policies and procedures to mitigate these? ⚠️ If not, we strongly encourage you to do so in light of the increased focus on this area for law firms of all shapes and sizes. It seems likely...
by Cat Sabine | Mar 29, 2022 | Article
For most law firms and legal practitioners, regulatory compliance is never far from mind. Can practice management software help lawyers to meet their regulatory requirements, including those set out by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)? Andrew Donovan, founder...
by Andrew Donovan | Dec 10, 2021 | COLP COFA, Resources
Learn about our outsourced COLP support Download this article (PDF, 12 pages) I read a bizarre and sad story recently about a solicitor disciplined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal following local newspaper reports of him hitting his 71-year old mother in the...
by Andrew Donovan | Aug 10, 2021 | Code of Conduct, COLP COFA
Reports in the legal press have confirmed that the SRA this week wrote to approximately 8,000 law firms requiring that the COLP (which means Compliance Officer for Legal Practice) declare “whether you have a website that is compliant with the Rules” and...
by Andrew Donovan | Sep 2, 2019 | Code of Conduct, COLP COFA
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has recently published a client care letter checklist (see summary below) on its website to help solicitors assess whether the regulator is likely to find their initial client paperwork suitable or not. For 99.9% of law firms...
