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Confidentiality and data protection
The loss of data whether it is through hacking, leaving briefcases, unencrypted laptops or USB sticks on the train (which even MI5 and MI6 can do) ? can have huge ramifications. Outcome (7.5) requires all law firms to comply with data protection legislation. Firms...
Updates for your website, terms of business and client care documents
To comply with Chapter 8 of the Handbook, your letterhead, website and e-mail footer must now (inter alia) show the words "authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority" and the firm's SRA number (or Companies House registration number if...
Do you have a compliance plan?
Chapter 7 of the Code of Conduct and Rule 8.2 of the Authorisation Rules require firms to have suitable compliance arrangements. Note (iii) to Rule 8 sets out some examples of what the SRA considers should be covered by a firm's compliance plan. There is no explicit...
Jonathan Fidler joins Legal Compliance Services
Ex-SRA Practice Standards Adviser Jonathan Fidler has recently joined his former colleague Richard Robinson at Legal Compliance Services. Jonathan is a qualified solicitor and spent over eight years with the profession's regulator as a Practice Standards Adviser. In...