SRA publishes response to the Independent Comparative Case Review
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today (Tuesday, 3 June) issued its response to Professor Gus John’s Independent Comparative Case Review (ICCR) report, which was published in March this year.
Racial over-representation ‘an issue’, SRA agrees (LSG)
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has accepted the findings of an independent report showing black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors to be over-represented in its regulatory activities.
Medium-sized firms lead way on fee income, profits and PEP (LF)
Law firms with 11 to 25 partners are leading the way out of recession, with rising fee incomes, net profits and a 21% surge in profit per equity partner (PEP), […]
Solicitors more diverse than society, profession-wide survey shows (LF)
Solicitors in law firms are slightly more diverse than the rest of society, the results of the profession-wide diversity monitoring undertaken by the Solicitors Regulation Authority have shown.
CPD reform plan ‘could ruin market for training’ (LSG)
Removing the mandatory requirement for 16 hours of continuing professional development a year could devastate the legal training market as firms cut their spending, the Gazette has been told.
Conveyancers remain cautious on hiring (LSG)
Conveyancers expect the property boom to continue throughout the year, but they remain cautious about increasing headcount, according to an authoritative market snapshot.
CPD reform: a ‘race to the bottom’? (LSG)
The existing CPD regime may be ‘tick-box’; but what is likely to replace it is even more so.
Legal clients suffer in silence, says consumer watchdog (LSG)
Nearly half of individuals dissatisfied with legal services do not complain, the Legal Services Consumer Panel says today.
Increasing number of clients “can’t be bothered to complain” about their lawyer (LF)
Public awareness of the Legal Ombudsman is continuing to fall, while the number of dissatisfied clients who do not bother to complain is increasing, a survey has found.
Leading CPD firm ceases trading (LSG)
Progressive Legal Training Ltd announces closure a week after regulator’s announcement that mandatory requirement is to end.
Help To Buy back in spotlight tomorrow (EAT)
Help to Buy is back in the spotlight with industry observers awaiting a report to be published tomorrow by the Treasury, giving its first breakdown on the take-up of HTB2, […]
Ditching CPD (LF)
Julie Brannan, director of education and training at the Solicitors Regulation Authority, explains the rationale for the move from hours-based CPD to ‘continuing competence’.