Identifying and supporting clients who are vulnerable or in vulnerable circumstances is exceptionally important and for some time been a clear focus of the FCA and SRA.

For family mediation week in January, the Family Mediation Council suggested making a pledge. Mine was to the FMC itself: to make the accreditation process more straightforward.

The number of employment law claims being lodged in the UK is on the rise, and both employers and the tribunal system are finding it challenging to cope.

Residual balances have been on the SRA’s radar for several years and seen as potentially a material breach, so why include them in a questionnaire about accountant’s reports?

Have you considered a ‘pre-mortem’, which involves planning for potential failures by identifying everything that could go wrong and working backwards to prevent those issues?