Regulators

Articles

3 Mar 2021

It's not fair: BAME disciplinary proceedings

The SRA should take radical action to ensure regulation is fair and proportionate, as Gideon Habel and Emma Walker explain

3 Mar 2021

Law Society president to step down to avoid being 'a distraction'

David Greene has announced he is to step aside as Law Society president from 19 March

3 Mar 2021

Unregulated barrister and ex-solicitor disbarred for dishonest conduct

An unregistered barrister has been disbarred following dishonesty relating to conveyancing in 2004

1 Mar 2021

Operation change: Maintaining the standards expected

Adapting to the post-covid new world requires maintaining appropriate oversight and conformity with regulatory and ethical duties, says Tracey Calvert

1 Mar 2021

Collateral attack

Susanna Heley considers the interplay between court judgments and solicitors' disciplinary proceedings

27 Feb 2021

Integrity and public trust: Avoiding an unruly mess

Esther Drabkin-Reiter examines how the court in Beckwith tied the scope of regulation by the SRA and the tribunal to a proper interpretation of the standards in the handbook

4 Feb 2021

How private is a private life?

Gideon Habel comments on the line to be drawn between private conduct within and outside of the SRA's reach post-Beckwith

4 Feb 2021

SRA prosecution: at what price?

Susanna Heley comments on the regulator's resistance to dropping proceedings against solicitor Z, despite significant risk to his life