PRICE TRANSPARENCY

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has committed to carrying out 'web sweeps' of around 500 law firms in the coming months in a bid to spot check compliance with its new price transparency rules. Speaking at a press briefing earlier this month, the regulator's chief executive Paul Philip said the intention was to take a 'proportionate approach' but he warned that firms tempted to shirk their obligations, that if they do they are 'forcing us into taking disproportionate action when you should just comply and move forward'. He added that the web sweep was part of a 'standard auditing approach' to price transparency.

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