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The International Data Insights Report: Trends in international arbitration
Mark Fallmann
SRA Standards and Regulations – what you need to know
Reach for the StaRs!
Understanding the new SRA Principles and Code: the long read
SRA and the regulation of your personal life
Ethics and what’s expected of you
Reporting concerns - understanding your obligations
Stand up and be accountable
The new Solicitors Accounts Rules: what has changed?
The new ‘freelance’ solicitor: practical aspects and our predictions
Time to prioritise, but not to panic
13 March 2018
The quality of integrity - a review of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Wingate and Evans v SRA; SRA V Malins [2018] EWCA Civ 366 in the context of Legal Services Regulation
Shockwaves (at least within the professional discipline world) followed the recent decision in Malins v SRA [2017] EWHC 835 (Admin) as the very existence of a “lack of integrity” offence hung in the balance (see earlier blog by Iain Miller, Lack of Integrity – Has it just been abolished?).
13 March 2018
Sexual Misconduct and the Duty to Report to the SRA
On 12th March 2018 the SRA published a warning notice on the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (“NDAs”). I have already blogged on the ethical issues that underpin the SRA’s notice here [link to IWD blog on NDAs] and I am currently working on a more detailed project with others around the use of NDAs that we hope will provide some more assistance to firms.
20 February 2018
SRA v Main: A distinction between upholding the law and breaking the law
On 3 January 2017, Alastair Main (‘the Respondent’) was convicted of committing two offences against a woman referred to as ‘OB’ during a Christmas Party at the London Rowing Club. He was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of racially aggravated assault by beating. It was alleged that the Respondent lifted up OB’s skirt and repeatedly slapped her bottom in a sexual way. OB had not consented to the touching and the Respondent ‘did not reasonably believe that she was consenting.’ During the assault, the Respondent also called OB an ‘Australian Slut’ and poured beer over her.
19 February 2018
IWD: We need to talk about Non-Disclosure Agreements
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) form an integral part of commercial life. If two businesses want to merge or even just enter into a contractual relationship, it is standard practice that their discussions are protected by a NDA. In the modern world information is both power and money so it is not surprising and entirely legitimate that organisations and individuals seek to protect their interests in this way.
29 January 2018
The price to pay for consequences of conduct outside of legal practice
At the end of last year, Luftar Rahman, former mayor of London’s Tower Hamlets borough, was struck off the roll by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
In 2015 Rahman was found guilty of illegal and corrupt practices by an election court, which included making false statements, bribery and undue influence. The election court ruling meant that the Tower Hamlets 2014 mayoral election had had to be re-run and Rahman was disqualified from standing as a candidate until 2020.
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