20 December 2024
A key part of our role in helping drive confidence and trust in legal services is stepping in where needed to protect clients and the wider public.
16 December 2024
This is our gender pay gap report and covers the statutory reporting up to April 2024.
16 December 2024
This report covers our ethnicity pay gap. Although there is not a statutory requirement to publish this information, we have chosen to publish this information for the fourth year running.
14 November 2024
In 2023 the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) carried out twice as many interventions (closing down a firm to protect clients’ interests) as in 2022, including high profile closures. There are signals that the nature of risk in the sector is changing, and so the SRA is considering its response to risk.
14 November 2024
The SRA conducted online polling with 2,009 consumers using the online consumer panel, Prolific. The polling sought to determine some aspects of awareness of consumer protection and regulation of legal services, gauging how essential consumers feel a range of protections to be as well as capturing views on client accounts.
14 November 2024
This research seeks to identify alternatives to client money handling and to evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of these models (to consumers, law firms and the SRA) and any other factors to consider.
14 November 2024
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) commissioned Frontier Economics to study future market changes in the legal sector and their potential impact on client money, in the context of their Consumer Protection Review.
14 November 2024
Legal sector consultancy Hook Tangaza undertook research for the SRA in May-June 2024 into consumer compensation arrangements in jurisdictions outside England and Wales, as well as those offered by other professions.
31 October 2024
The universities of York, Lancaster, and Cardiff were commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to understand the reasons why there is overrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic solicitors in reports to the SRA. There are two main components to the research
31 October 2024
These appendices are part of the analysis of the factors causing overrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic solicitors in reports made to the SRA and in reports taken forward for investigation.
