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Red tape re-run

02 May 2013
Issue: 7558 / Categories: Legal News
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SRA consults on new initiatives

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to consult on two further bureaucracy-cutting “red tape initiatives”, which could be included in the October 2013 update of the SRA Handbook. The first is to remove the requirement for compliance officers to report non-material breaches to the SRA. The second is that lawyers applying to practise as a European lawyer and who need to declare disciplinary sanctions would no longer need to apply six weeks before the renewal date or declare a previously declared historic event.

Issue: 7558 / Categories: Legal News
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