Navigating the intricate world of third-party relationships is crucial for maintaining compliance and protecting your practice from liability. This resource provides in-depth, practical guidance on managing third-party risks, ensuring due diligence, and developing robust contracts and agreements. Equip yourself with the tools needed to handle third-party interactions with confidence and uphold the highest standards of practice compliance.
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade has announced plans to introduce a mandatory human rights due diligence regime following a...
The Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) has launched a consultation on its draft 2027–30 strategy and 2027–28 Business Plan and Budget for the Legal...
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have updated the...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published a report calling for global action to tackle scam compounds—the most rapidly expanding forms of...
What is a solicitor's undertaking?An undertaking is a commitment by a solicitor to do something. It can be enforced against the solicitor by the...
In what circumstances might a solicitor be able to contact another lawyer's client directly?The current SRA Standards and Regulations (STaR) are...
SRA Code of Conduct for individuals and firmsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the SRA Codes of Conduct, contained in the SRA Standards and...
Acting for yourself, friends and familyThis Practice Note covers considerations where a law firm wishes to act for one of its own partners or...
Referral and fee sharing arrangementsThis Practice Note reflects requirements for law firms and solicitors in the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors RELs and RFLs (Code for Solicitors) and the SRA Code of Conduct for Firms (Code for Firms) in relation to referral and fee sharing arrangements.The
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
If a beneficiary signs a deed of disclaimer of their share of an estate and the estate pays their legal fees, will that count as a PET against their estate?A disclaimer is the refusal of a gift prior to acceptance. The refusal of the gift must take place before the beneficiary accepts any benefit
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