Guidance on Sanctions Controls
Finding that a client is listed on the consolidated sanctions controls list maintained by HM Treasur...
A New Direction for Data Protection
Even before Brexit took effect UK data protection legislation was at best ambiguous with the potenti...
SRA Reports and Priorities
SRA issued its annual “Upholding Professional Standards” report for 2019/20 last month, outlinin...
Will Construction
In this article we look at the timely warning as to the importance of some basic principles of the d...
Conveyancers Beware – Acting for Vendor and Purchaser
News of disciplinary proceedings having been taken recently against a conveyancer who had acted for ...
Cyber Losses Cover and Money Laundering Risks
Recent SRA announcements on the related topics of cyber-based property fraud and anti-money launderi...
Trusts and Beneficial Ownership Registration
Following analysis in last month’s newsletter on the revised guidance in the 2021 Legal Sector Aff...
Recording Telephone Conversations
Recording telephone calls is proving ever more useful to law firms – if only as a means of ensurin...
Changed “Tax Adviser” Status to be Notified to the SRA
SRA stresses need for records to be updated for those already AML regulated firms now regarded as op...
Regularising Home-Working
The current COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly affected the lives of most people. For ...