The SRA's first dedicated AI warning notice brings supervisors, COLPs and firm governance into scope, and treats client material entered into public AI tools as a permanent risk to privilege.
A dated tracker of the SRA client money reform programme: the two approved rule changes awaiting commencement, the closed notification consultation and the longer-term review.
Who can be a COLP or COFA once the approved SRA rules take effect, how the £600,000 and £2m thresholds work, and what firms should check before commencement.
The Legal Services Board approved the SRA's COLP and COFA separation rules on 31 July 2026, together with annual accountants' reports for every firm that holds client money.
The SDT has suspended a solicitor for six months after she admitted failing to act in a Court of Protection client's best interests across a 16-year deputyship, on…
The SDT cleared a Stevenage conveyancer of manifest incompetence and of taking instructions from a client's son, imposed a reprimand on client care failings and cut SRA costs…
Before client material touches an AI tool, firms need to know where the data goes. A checklist built on Munir: controlled environments, verification duties, and what to do…
Manifest incompetence needs systemic or fundamental failure, not one badly handled file. Two Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal outcomes mark out where poor service ends and where regulatory misconduct begins.
The SRA sectoral risk assessment was substantially rewritten on 6 August 2026, adding three emerging risks firms must take into account under regulation 18(2)(a) when drafting a firm-wide…