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SRA lays out first changes to STaRs since 2019 launch
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is set to make the first changes to its Standards and Regulations since the rules were introduced three years ago.
Law firms “well placed” to set socio-economic targets
Law firms are “well placed” to set socio-economic diversity targets because of data they are required to collect by the SRA, a taskforce led by the City of London Corporation has said.
Panel spells out challenge of contextualising law firm transparency data
There is “no prototype” for how to contextualise transparency data about law firms for consumers, and it will not be perfect from the start, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has warned.
Barristers set to pay the price for BSB performance problems
The poor performance of the Bar Standards Board is set to hit barristers in the pocket as it seeks to increase salaries to overcome recruitment and retention difficulties.
Major firms sign up to part-time working initiative for trainees
Five law firms have now agreed to offer all those who successfully apply for trainee solicitor and other training posts the opportunity to work part-time.
Law Society attacks Legal Ombudsman over 8% staff pay rise
The Law Society has attacked plans by the Legal Ombudsman to increase pay for its staff by 8%, as part of a 9.6% increase in its budget for the next financial year.
Barrister who falsified CV to get pupillage and tenancy disbarred years later
A barrister whose applications for pupillage at one chambers and then tenancy at another were based on a false CV has been disbarred – more than a decade after he first used it.
SRA steps in to shut down four Metamorph Group businesses
The SRA today closed down four of the businesses in the Metamorph Group network, comprising 10 law firms, as they were in the process of transferring their practices to another group firm.
Money owed to Pure Legal’s unsecured creditors climbs to £38m
The administrators of Pure Legal have now received claims from unsecured creditors worth nearly £38m – rather than the £23m originally estimated – and almost none of it will be repaid.
Fee-share corporate firm becomes community interest company
A fee-share practice has become what is thought to be the first corporate law firm to become a not-for-profit community interest company, ensuring it donates all profits to charity.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
