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PC renewal will start on 1 November, Law Society promises
Tuesday, 18 September 2012The Law Society yesterday usurped the Solicitors Regulation Authority plans to announce details of this year’s practising certificate renewal exercise. The 2011 renewal exercise was dogged by delays and IT problems.
Tags: Law Society, practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
PC renewal fiasco looms large as SRA scraps plan to move roll exercise online
Wednesday, 8 August 2012The Solicitors Regulation Authority has admitted defeat in its bid to introduce an online system for tens of thousands of solicitors who want to stay on the roll because it fears a repeat of last year’s PC renewal shambles.
Tags: practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
Law Society budgets for £10m deficit as Hudson receives 6.8% pay rise
Thursday, 5 July 2012IT project “cost overruns” have contributed to the Law Society budgeting for a £10m deficit this year, it has emerged. The 2011 accounts also reveal that chief executive Des Hudson received a 6.8% pay rise last year to £407,000 in total.
Tags: Law Society, practising certificate, practising certificate fee, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
High Court rejects bid to replace “kiss of death” practising certificate conditions with undertakings
Thursday, 7 June 2012The High Court has rejected a bid to replace conditions on a solicitor’s practising certificate with undertakings despite claims that the current state of the professional indemnity insurance market made them the “kiss of death” to a continuing career.
Tags: practising certificate, professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Tea and sympathy for the SRA?
Monday, 27 February 2012Hands up who feels sorry for the SRA. You at the back? Anyone? Just a smidgen of sympathy? I thought not – that certainly reflects what I hear from solicitors as I go out and about. The possibility of finding practitioners who might have been minded to give their regulator the benefit of the doubt has been extinguished by the practising certificate renewal fiasco. The Law Society has a long history of mucking up IT projects.
Tags: Law Society, practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Blog
SRA set to delay COLP and COFA deadline
Monday, 27 February 2012The 31 March deadline for law firms to nominate their new compliance officers is to be pushed back as a result of the continuing practising certificate renewal problems at the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Tags: COFA, COLP, compliance officer for finance and administration, compliance officer for legal practice, internal governance rules, Law Society, Legal Services Board, practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
News round-up: barrister jailed for chambers theft, another mySRA extension, and much more
Monday, 13 February 2012Our latest news round-up reports on a barrister jailed after stealing £72,500 from his chambers, more problems with the SRA’s online PC renewal system, surveys on fixed fees and compliance, and the appeal court upholding a ruling against a firm innocently caught up in mortgage fraud.
Tags: Barristers, compliance, fixed fees, fraud, mortgage fraud, practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Competence, Indemnity insurance, Latest news, News In Brief, Solicitors
SRA extends PC renewal into 2012
Friday, 25 November 2011Some solicitors will now not be able to go online to renew their practising certificates until 2012, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed, amid the chaotic ongoing implementation of its £22m IT system. The deadline to activate mySRA accounts will also be extended.
Tags: practising certificate, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in News, Solicitors
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The lonely role of a COFA: sharing the burden of risk management
Compliance officers for finance and administration in law firms can often find themselves walking a solitary path. But what if we could create a collaborative culture of shared accountability?
Mind the (justice) gap: Why are RTAs going up but claims still down?
The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the latest government data.
Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
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