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 agreed facts.
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…
A single legal regulator should replace the eight approved regulators in England and Wales, according to a position paper from the Legal Services Consumer Panel published on 16…
A firm-wide risk assessment is the document the SRA asks for first on inspection, and regulation 18(2)(a) requires firms to take the sectoral risk assessment into account when…
Eight approved regulators authorise legal services in England and Wales under the Legal Services Act 2007, each with its own rulebook, disciplinary process and consumer protection arrangements.
The SRA has referred two solicitors to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over conduct after the main events of the Horizon scandal. The allegations are unproven and no findings…