SRA 4 Hour Webinar Bundle [2025]

Our 4-hour SRA Webinar Bundle consists of 4 x 1-hour pre-recorded webinars.

PLEASE NOTE: This SRA Webinar Bundle will be viewable from 19th March 2025. If you don't wish to wait for your training, there's still time to purchase the 2024 SRA Webinar Bundle, available to view now here.

This bundle includes the titles below:

1. Regulation & Enforcement – punishments galore
2. SRA Inspections – points to watch
3. Ethics – conflicts, confidentiality and undertakings – getting it right
4. SRA Accounts Rules – can we still hold client money?

More details about the courses:

1. Regulation & Enforcement – punishments galore

The last 18 months has seen a marked increase in the SRA’s vigilance and muscularity in its enforcement activity. Whilst most of us would agree that some action could be justified, the concerns are growing that the SRA are taking a very harsh line with any infraction and non-compliance with the Rules, however slight. Firms have been fined thousands of pounds (sometime much more) for technical breaches of the Rules where no illegality was found and no loss to clients was caused, and yet, the SRA would not seem to be too bothered about the fallout from Axiom Ince. When will it end?

2. SRA Inspections – points to watch

Almost every practice in the land has been (or will shortly be) made subject to an SRA inspection of some sort. The cloak of doom has been felt to shroud even the most law-abiding firm and the threat of a penalty has never been higher. What should law firms look out for when the Inspector comes calling? What areas of compliance do we need to focus on to ensure a smooth passage with our regulators and our insurers?

3. Ethics – conflicts, confidentiality and undertakings – getting it right

The last 18 months has seen a marked increase in the SRA’s vigilance and muscularity in its enforcement activity. Whilst the focus has been on AML procedures, many of us are revising our approach to a range of topics, and undergoing some top-up training on matters that we have scarcely thought about since law school. Many of the topics are of interest to those who have never been to law school but who work with us – and are therefore subject to the same limitations.

4. SRA Accounts Rules – can we still hold client money?

The ‘new’ Accounts Rules continue to create much interest amongst the legal fraternity, but none more so than over the last 6 months, since the SRA announced their intention to consult on whether we should be allowed to continue to hold client money at all. No doubt due to the fallout and implications of the Axiom Ince debacle, the SRA seem to take the view that if one bad apple cannot be trusted, then the whole barrel must be jettisoned. With a consultation underway until February 2025 they want to know what our views are on that topic, as well as what alterations and tightening-up of the rules might be needed on interest on client account, and on the reporting accountant’s obligations.