SRA Standards & Regulations - 2025 Essential Update

Introduction

The SRA Standards and Regulations have been in force since 2019 and the SRA expect that these are understood, and that individuals and law firms can demonstrate compliance in practice. This requires an understanding not only of basic professional behaviours and regulatory duties, but also knowledge of the SRA’s risk priorities and the current hot regulatory topics.

Presented by compliance expert Tracey Calvert, this virtual classroom seminar will provide you with an essential update on the SRA Standards and Regulations.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• The SRA’s regulatory objectives, style of regulation and developments with enforcement powers
• High-risk topics in 2025
• The Principles - the significance of these basic ethical duties both in our professional and private lives and hot topics in 2025 including offensive communications, adherence to honesty and integrity principles, and conduct in litigation
• An exploration of the key current hot topics from the two Codes of Conduct - professional conduct duties, wellbeing, supervision and business management duties
• The expectations of solicitors in managerial and supervisory roles - how do you ensure accountability in the workplace?
• The Accounts Rules headlines - the SRA’s consultation on possible changes
• How to ensure compliance in your workplace - suggestions for your ‘to do’ list
• Suggestions for your compliance toolkit
• Other key features of the SRA’s work in 2025 - fitness to practise issues, AML supervision etc, addressing the public interest concerns
• What the SRA expects from the firm’s partners, compliance officers, and others in senior roles

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.