The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced that it has extended the practising certificate renewal window until 20 November 2020. During 2020, the SRA ran renewals on a new IT system and new telephony, which has proved ‘particularly challenging’ amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and has led to teething problems that ‘have hampered some firms at a time when they are already managing a range of other pressures’. As a result, the extension is to give those in the profession longer to complete the process amid this ‘difficult time’.