Regulatory Update 2020

With coronavirus preoccupying everyone’s waking thoughts this webinar will take advantage of the ‘regulatory forbearance’ mentioned in the Prime Minister’s recent briefing.

Nonetheless, compliance is an ever-increasing burden on practitioners and this webinar provides a simple overview of important developments in a number of areas and sets out a series of practical steps to take in response. Topics will include:

Regulatory Issues

• Coronavirus update: key workers, enhanced professional needs, current steps and measures to assist us
• latest SRA guidance (including conflicts, confidentiality, honesty and integrity)
• latest position on indemnity insurance reform
• new advertising rules

Enforcement Action

• backdating signatures
• employing bogus solicitors
• failure to check client’s identity
• failure to act expeditiously

Money Laundering

• Recent amendments – what do we need to be doing now?
• Relevant enforcement examples – eg ongoing monitoring