This Practice Note is aimed at compliance professionals in law firms. It tracks key future developments in law firm compliance in England and Wales. It provides details of key dates for your diary (including forecasted dates where the actual date is unknown) and commentary in relation to key developments, including legislation, regulatory changes and consultations. For details of developments relating to financial crime compliance, see Practice Note: Financial crime compliance horizon scanner—2026. This horizon scanner does not cover past developments, such as legislation fully in force, implemented regulatory changes or concluded consultations. For details of past developments in the field of Practice Compliance, see Practice Notes: • Practice Compliance tracker—2026 • Financial crime compliance tracker—2026 • New and updated content 2026—Practice Compliance • Chronological list of changes to client care letter and TOB • Chronological list of changes to AML, CTF and counter-proliferation financing policy—law firms Complaints What’s happening? When? What’s the impact? Find out more LeO consultation on Scheme Rules, case fees and publication of ombudsman decisions The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) consulted on

This Practice Note provides a summary of the key Practice Compliance developments which have impacted compliance professionals in England and Wales in 2026, including legislation, consultations, and other notable developments. For information on ongoing and expected developments, see Practice Note: Practice Compliance horizon scanner—2026. Complaints What’s happened? When? What’s the impact? Find out more LeO Model Complaints Resolution Procedure The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) published its final Model Complaints Resolution Procedure (MCRP), comprising Early Resolution and Full Investigation stages, with supporting guidance, templates and toolkits. 29 July 2026 The MCRP is voluntary. Firms can adapt it to their business, but must include LeO’s five core features if they state that they use the MCRP. MCRP launched to improve legal sector complaint handlingModel Complaints Resolution Procedure Office for Legal Complaints consultation on LeO 2026–27 business plan and budget On 4 November 2025, the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) launched a consultation on its draft 2026–27 business plan and budget for the LeO including a proposed 12.1% budget increase and a Scheme Transformation Review which will seek views

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest updates to the financial sanctions regime, a Spotlight on Corruption report criticising the UK’s enforcement of sanctions, a news analysis on the proposed EU anticorruption directive and new SRA Claims Management Fees Rules.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions updates, details of the NCA SARs in Action magazine, issue 14, an analysis of the Entain deferred prosecution deal, the launch of the EDPB website compliance auditing tool and a news analysis on explainability and AI.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, approval of AML guidance for the legal sector by HMT, new guidance on corporate self-reporting and DPAs by the SFO and an analysis on what legal teams need to know about AI standards.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes key sanctions developments, including OFSI’s new presumption of denial for licence applications from five designated Iranian banks, its annual frozen assets reporting exercise and an update to the Shah Deniz Project general licence. We also cover the FCA’s approach to the future supervision of law firms for anti-money laundering compliance, the Information Commissioner’s transition to the Information Commission under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and the launch of an AI Scam Watchlist highlighting emerging AI-enabled scams. We also feature analysis of key financial crime developments in 2026 and what practitioners should watch for as further reforms take effect.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the European Commission's updated Model Contractual Clauses for AI Procurement and the applicability of the EU's AI rulebook, a Legal Services Threat Assessment Report by OFSI, the Serious Fraud Office's new fraud prevention powers and covert tactics to address self-reporting declines and an analysis of the UK’s current approach to modern slavery.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: OFSI’s updated sanctions FAQs, FATF’s report on terrorist financing enforcement gaps, EU changes to the AML high-risk jurisdictions list, the ICO’s consultation on cookies and tracking technologies, and the FCA’s finalised guidance on PEPs.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, guidance published by the Home Office on the information sharing measures in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, analysis on the new 'failure to prevent fraud' offence that is likely to take effect in 2025 which was written to target large companies that do not have internal controls to prevent such crime and a report published by the European Commission on the functioning of the adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which facilitates the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes major Iran sanctions changes due to take effect on 29 September 2026, including new trade, financial and transport restrictions, alongside a £7.4 million settlement for Russia sanctions breaches. We also cover final amendments to Part I of the JMLSG’s anti-money laundering guidance, the Ministry of Justice’s new 2026–2030 fraud, bribery and corruption strategy, and the NECC’s latest report on action against fraud and illicit finance. In addition, we look at the first SDT ruling banning a foreign lawyer over inaccurate AI-generated citations, as well as increases to practising and registration certificate fees for 2026–27 and further enforcement action by the LSB in relation to the SRA.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the government’s response to the POCA 2002 investigative powers consultation, the latest sanctions update, a new international multilateral agreement between the ICO and Global CAPE, and details of OLC’s 2024–27 strategy for the Legal Ombudsman.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes OTSI's first annual report, new sanctions imposed on Russia’s GRU following the Sturgess Inquiry report, HM Treasury’s annual AML/CTF supervision report for 2024–2025, the launch of City of London Police’s new Report Fraud service, the government’s anti-corruption strategy targeting professional enablers, and updated guidance from the ICO on right‑of‑access under UK GDPR reflecting DUAA 2025 and ICO information on progress with cookie compliance across UK websites.