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December 2025
- Newsletter
- 08 Dec 2025
In October 2024, the Legal Services Board (LSB) released an independent review of the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) handling of Axiom Ince Ltd conducted by Carson McDowell LLP. Fast forward twelve months, the LSB published the results of another review into the SRA’s regulation of the collapsed SSB Group.
September 2025
- Newsletter
- 05 Sep 2025
On 27 May 2025, the Legal Services Board (LSB) issued a number of ‘Directions’ to the SRA to improve various systems and controls shortcomings in the wake of the Axiom Ince review report.
April 2025
- Newsletter
- 02 Apr 2025
Jason Mitchell of PKF UK and Andrew Baker of RSM UK discussed three topical issues currently impacting the legal sector: the SRA’s Consumer Protection Review, basis period reform and partial exemption considerations in relation to interest received on client balances.
December 2024
- Newsletter
- 13 Dec 2024
This year’s annual conference was as informative as ever and we wanted to share a very brief summary of some of the key takeaways.
September 2024
- Newsletter
- 20 Sep 2024
Earlier this year, HMRC published updated guidance on its interpretation of the legislation in respect of the salaried member rules, which could impact the employment status of fixed share members of an LLP.
February 2024
- Newsletter
- 12 Feb 2024
Janet Taylor, SME of the Solicitors Community, outlines the Community’s exciting plans for 2024 whilst reflecting on a successful 2023, starting with the Basic and Advanced essentials in March.
December 2023
- Newsletter
- 05 Dec 2023
Hopefully many of you reading this were able to join us for our recent annual solicitors’ conference, but for those of you that missed it, here is a brief rundown of what happened.
July 2023
- Newsletter
- 26 Jul 2023
With the bank rate now standing at 4.5%, a level not seen since October 2008, this article addresses the question of what is a fair level of interest to pass on to clients holding deposit funds with their law firm?
April 2023
- Newsletter
- 24 Apr 2023
The SRA have recently published updates to the warning notice and the case studies dealing with the prohibition on providing banking facilities.
December 2022
- Newsletter
- 09 Dec 2022
The ICAEW Solicitors Community held its third Virtual Solicitors Conference on 13 September 2022. In a break from the forward-looking theme from recent years, the conference was split into two sessions, with four speakers from the morning session all pulled into one overarching theme of 'what happens when it all goes wrong'. For the rest of the day, speakers focused on technical issues and practice management issues.
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