by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority today pledged to scrap the requirement for solicitors to complete 16 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is pushing ahead with plans to abolish all of the prescriptive requirements around continuing professional development (CPD) and leave it to solicitors and their firms to decide how best to ensure their continuing...
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
All conveyancing professionals will have access to the Law Society’s online conveyancing system – so long as they pass due diligence tests equivalent to those in the Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme, the team behind the project has revealed.
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
A prominent accountancy firm has warned that compliance officers will have to shoulder extra responsibility if the Solicitors Regulation Authority succeeds in scrapping compulsory accountants’ reports.
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
The SRA plans to prevent mortgage lenders from claiming on solicitors’ compulsory indemnity insurance will “destroy high street conveyancing” Law Society CEO Des Hudson says.
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
Yorkshire Building society says it has “no present intention” of reconsidering a ban it has decided to impose on firms with unrated indemnity insurers, even though the SRA decided against one.
by Rob | May 24, 2014 | News
The Legal Services Board (LSB) is to tell the approved regulators that they must consult those they regulate about setting the level of practising fees beyond what is needed simply for regulation, it has emerged.
by Rob | May 22, 2014 | News
Training declarations to replace hours-based CPD (LF) Solicitors will be required to make training declarations on their practicing certificates following the phasing out of hours-based continuing professional development (CPD), the Solicitors Regulation Authority...
