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How can managers challenge behaviour as required by the SRA?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) uses the term ‘manager’ to mean a sole practitioner, partner, director or member of a limited liability partnership. This definition is relevant when applying the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs, paragraph 1.5, which states: “You treat colleagues fairly and with respect. You do not bully or harass them or discriminate unfairly against them.
Ethics and litigation are in the regulatory spotlight. What's next for in-house lawyers?
The in-house section of the solicitors’ profession is in the regulatory and reputational spotlight. Now more than ever, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) must be seen to be an effective regulator of this community. Equally, in-house solicitors must be satisfied that they understand regulatory expectations and have the means to show that their professionalism is not compromised by their employment.
The challenges regulating in-house lawyers
The 2023 SRA in-house solicitors thematic review shows that if in-house lawyers have largely operated below the regulatory radar, that may be changing. Disciplinary cases involving in-house lawyers in the past have been vanishingly few. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) does not identify them in its annual reports and I have only identified two cases on the firm’s database of approximately 3,500 SDT cases, and four internal SRA decisions.
A fair shot: the in-house lawyer behind global vaccine equality efforts
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic presented Gavi and my team with challenges unprecedented in scale, speed and demands. Our role as the administrator of the COVAX Facility – the biggest multilateral initiative since the Paris Climate Agreement – meant that we had to reallocate resources to address urgent problems and be more rigorous in deciding which work is outsourced versus what is handled internally or even postponed.
Disclosure of Information: Norwich Pharmacal and Related Principles (3rd edition)
Disclosure of Information: Norwich Pharmacal and Related Principles (3rd edition) Simon Bushell and Gary Milner-Moore £215, Bloomsbury ★★★★✩ One of the great surprises for those of us who have followed changes in civil procedure in the last generation has been the rise in the importance of the Norwich Pharmacal order. Rescued from a century’s oblivion by the House of Lords in 1973, it has become an important weapon in the armoury of interim remedies.
Governing Law Risks in International Business Transactions
Governing Law Risks in International Business Transactions Philip R Wood £125, Oxford University Press ★★★★★ My professional experience of governing law clauses in contracts tends to fall into three distinct categories. First, when dealing with the sale of a company incorporated in Northern Ireland, we usually insist that NI law should apply to the sale agreement if the buyer is based in England or Ireland; the buyer will often prefer to use the law of its home state.
Shouldering the burden of proof
Lawfare: How the Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them Geoffrey Robertson KC £10.99, TLS Books ★★★★✩ An allegedly crooked businessman was being investigated for alleged corruption, but we cannot name him or his company. How has it come to this? That is the question posed by Geoffrey Robertson KC’s concise book on proliferation of new privacy laws and SLAPP actions in the UK.
Rainmakers: Born or Bred (2nd edition)
Rainmakers: Born or Bred (2nd edition) Patricia K. Gillette, Rebecca Harding £75, Globe Law and Business ★★★✩✩ Selling is a dirty word. This short book considers what makes a good rainmaker, an American term meaning the lawyer in a firm whose main role is to bring in new work. They will not necessarily be the most senior lawyer, or even a partner, but will be in a senior position. Others actually do the work.
Armed Robbers: Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country
Armed Robbers: Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country Emmeline Taylor £80, Oxford University Press ★★★★✩ In an academic text that reads like a novel (offered as a compliment), the whys and wherefores behind armed robberies in Australia are explored.
Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All
Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All Angela Kirwin £18.99, Trapeze ★★★★✩ The former home secretary Douglas Hurd said prisons are ‘expensive places for making bad people worse’. Author and campaigner Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of a felon in one of his stories: ‘Send him to jail now, and you make him a jail-bird for life.’ The message that prisons are costly and do not work is not new.
Grounded at Kai Tak: Chinese Aircraft Impounded in Hong Kong, 1949-1952
Grounded at Kai Tak: Chinese Aircraft Impounded in Hong Kong, 1949-1952 Malcolm Merry £43, Hong Kong University Press ★★★★✩ As the countdown to the Cold War began, a fraught legal battle embroiled China, the US, UK and Hong Kong over possession of 71 aeroplanes. This is the geopolitical backdrop to barrister Malcolm Merry’s trenchant account that takes in the end of the civil war in China where Mao Tse-tung’s communists were becoming ascendant on the mainland.
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters Adam Wagner £14.99, Bodley Head ★★★★★ We all have our own experiences of Covid-19. For me, during the thick of the pandemic, a planned wedding was delayed and then rapidly slimmed down. I then prepared for the birth of a baby and was not permitted to attend most of the antenatal scans due to social distancing rules.
Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White
Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White David Hewitt £11.99, Troubador ★★★✩✩ This is a fascinating history of silent cinema in its early days and the novel legal complications with which it was confronted. The book mainly describes films that came out during the first world war. I knew that silent films had text cards with dialogue and plot explanations but some cinemas had actors who voiced the script. This was the era of Charlie Chaplin (pictured).
The Ambrosia Project: A Burton and Lamb Case
The Ambrosia Project: A Burton and Lamb Case Abi Silver £9.99, Lightning Books Abi Silver consistently comes up with topical themes for courtroom thrillers, including gaming, celebrity, self-driving cars and now food. A leading figure in the business world of food collapses and dies at a public event. Was the tragedy a heart attack, caused by food poisoning, or the result of an allergy? What role did his scary PA have in it? The whole episode is captured on camera.
The Compliance response to the SRA’s updated regulations | Lexology
United Kingdom
October 17 2019 The long-awaited remodelled regulatory toolkit from the SRA is to be launched on 25 November 2019. Called the SRA Standards and Regulations, (or STARs for short), its tone is evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but it does provide some very strong messages about what will in future be expected from lawyers and others in SRA-authorised law firms.
Security in the cloud: is your client’s data secure?
What are the concerns surrounding the safety of lawyers’ data? The concept of confidentiality is at the core of the solicitor-client relationship and protected as a concept in law and also through regulatory controls. This is dependent on lawyers’ data being secure.
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