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The Solicitors' Risk Collection addresses issues and developments affecting legal practitioners, and the professional indemnity insurers of legal practitioners.

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Risk Register 2023- Special Edition: ESG and what it means for law firms

Risk Register 2023- Special Edition: ESG and what it means for law firms

14 septiembre 2023

Laying down the law: the SRA is on course for more powers

Laying down the law: the SRA is on course for more powers

27 julio 2023

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | May 2023

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | May 2023

24 mayo 2023

Has the SRA confused or clarified its position on sanction in sexual misconduct cases?

Has the SRA confused or clarified its position on sanction in sexual misconduct cases?

24 mayo 2023

In With the New: Changes to Legal Ombudsman Schemes Rules from 1 April 2023

In With the New: Changes to Legal Ombudsman Schemes Rules from 1 April 2023

24 mayo 2023

Recent practical lessons learned on drafting witness statements and instructing experts

Recent practical lessons learned on drafting witness statements and instructing experts

24 mayo 2023

Limitation and the pursuit of knowledge

Limitation and the pursuit of knowledge

24 mayo 2023

Conflict Checks and Confidential Information: a salutary reminder of the limits of injunctive relief

Conflict Checks and Confidential Information: a salutary reminder of the limits of injunctive relief

24 mayo 2023

Who do solicitors owe a duty of care to? Not just the client?

Who do solicitors owe a duty of care to? Not just the client?

24 mayo 2023

Handling monies as stakeholder – the law under review

Handling monies as stakeholder – the law under review

24 mayo 2023

Interim payments are far from straightforward in professional negligence claims

Interim payments are far from straightforward in professional negligence claims

24 mayo 2023

Law Society Guidance on The Impact of Climate Change on Solicitors

Law Society Guidance on The Impact of Climate Change on Solicitors

24 mayo 2023

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | November 2022

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | November 2022

24 noviembre 2022

Disciplinary Developments – A general overview

Disciplinary Developments – A general overview

24 noviembre 2022

Think twice before marking it WP: SRA to issue guidance on “without prejudice” correspondence

Think twice before marking it WP: SRA to issue guidance on “without prejudice” correspondence

24 noviembre 2022

SIF and the SRA Indemnity Scheme

SIF and the SRA Indemnity Scheme

24 noviembre 2022

Amendments to the Disclosure Pilot Scheme

Amendments to the Disclosure Pilot Scheme

24 noviembre 2022

Out of duty: Court clarifies when a law firm’s retainer begins

Out of duty: Court clarifies when a law firm’s retainer begins

24 noviembre 2022

Climate Change – do conveyancers owe a duty to clients to advise on the related risks?

Climate Change – do conveyancers owe a duty to clients to advise on the related risks?

24 noviembre 2022

Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 – recent court decisions relating to limitation issues and declarations from the court in respect of coverage

Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 – recent court decisions relating to limitation issues and declarations from the court in respect of coverage

24 noviembre 2022

Ransoms - to pay or not to pay, that is the question

Ransoms - to pay or not to pay, that is the question

24 noviembre 2022

Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away: Can Firms Exert a Lien Over Disclosable Files?

Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away: Can Firms Exert a Lien Over Disclosable Files?

24 noviembre 2022

Case Law Update for Dismissing Solicitors’ Negligence Claims

Case Law Update for Dismissing Solicitors’ Negligence Claims

24 noviembre 2022

Settlement of claims and complaints – how far can you go?

Settlement of claims and complaints – how far can you go?

13 abril 2022

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | March 2022

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | March 2022

25 marzo 2022

The impact of Google’s £3bn Supreme Court reprieve and other recent data breach decisions on solicitor firms

The impact of Google’s £3bn Supreme Court reprieve and other recent data breach decisions on solicitor firms

29 noviembre 2021

Hooray for hybrid? Don’t forget the risks

Hooray for hybrid? Don’t forget the risks

22 noviembre 2021

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | October 2021

Solicitors' Risks in Brief | October 2021

18 octubre 2021

Undertakings – a difficult undertaking?

Undertakings – a difficult undertaking?

30 julio 2021

Is your firm ready for the regulatory impact of the whiplash reforms?

Is your firm ready for the regulatory impact of the whiplash reforms?

21 junio 2021

Witness Statements: A Paradigm Shift?

Witness Statements: A Paradigm Shift?

06 mayo 2021

Data Protection & Brexit for Solicitors

Data Protection & Brexit for Solicitors

06 mayo 2021

Does a Barrister owe a duty to its instructing solicitor

Does a Barrister owe a duty to its instructing solicitor

06 mayo 2021

Tenants’ office requirements post-Covid

Tenants’ office requirements post-Covid

06 mayo 2021

Duties owed by solicitors and trade unions

Duties owed by solicitors and trade unions

06 mayo 2021

Wasted costs applications on the rise?

Wasted costs applications on the rise?

06 mayo 2021

Collateral attack, different parties, seldom an abuse - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP v BTI 2014 LLC [2021] EWCA Civ 9

Collateral attack, different parties, seldom an abuse - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP v BTI 2014 LLC [2021] EWCA Civ 9

06 mayo 2021

Will Rectification

Will Rectification

06 mayo 2021

A Hard Solicitors’ PI market

A Hard Solicitors’ PI market

06 mayo 2021

Practice Reminders – treating your client account as a bank account

Practice Reminders – treating your client account as a bank account

06 mayo 2021

Regulatory outlook part 2 – a change of approach by the SRA?

Regulatory outlook part 2 – a change of approach by the SRA?

06 mayo 2021

Regulatory outlook part 1 – lessons from recent cases

Regulatory outlook part 1 – lessons from recent cases

06 mayo 2021

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - May 2021

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - May 2021

06 mayo 2021

Solicitors’ cyber cover – going quietly?

Solicitors’ cyber cover – going quietly?

06 abril 2021

Abusive Collateral Attack in a civil context: The Test

Abusive Collateral Attack in a civil context: The Test

26 enero 2021

Re-assertion of the challenges for a Defendant to a contribution claim

Re-assertion of the challenges for a Defendant to a contribution claim

14 enero 2021

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - December 2020

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - December 2020

14 diciembre 2020

The illegality defence in professional negligence claims – where are we now, post Stoffel? Stoffel & Co (Appellant) v Grondona (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 42

The illegality defence in professional negligence claims – where are we now, post Stoffel? Stoffel & Co (Appellant) v Grondona (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 42

18 noviembre 2020

Aggregation under solicitors’ policies – the boomerang returns

Aggregation under solicitors’ policies – the boomerang returns

17 noviembre 2020

Don’t get caught cold by the Limitation Freeze

Don’t get caught cold by the Limitation Freeze

28 septiembre 2020

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - August 2020

Solicitors' Risks in Brief Newsletter - August 2020

07 agosto 2020

Court of Appeal gives ruling on limitation in matrimonial proceedings

Court of Appeal gives ruling on limitation in matrimonial proceedings

09 julio 2020

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Family Law

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Family Law

30 junio 2020

No let-up in regulation by the SRA – but is it time for a change of approach?

No let-up in regulation by the SRA – but is it time for a change of approach?

22 junio 2020

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Drafting and Executing Wills

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Drafting and Executing Wills

16 junio 2020

Litigating during the pandemic

Litigating during the pandemic

27 mayo 2020

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Conveyancers

Coronavirus Risk Management Series for Law Firms: Conveyancers

22 abril 2020

Solicitors' Risk: The Risk Register

Solicitors' Risk: The Risk Register

14 abril 2020

Solicitors' Risks in Brief newsletter - April 2020

Solicitors' Risks in Brief newsletter - April 2020

06 abril 2020

Solicitors Risk alert - COVID-19

Solicitors Risk alert - COVID-19

30 marzo 2020

Solicitors' Risk in Brief - August 2019

Solicitors' Risk in Brief - August 2019

08 agosto 2019

Solicitors' Risk in Brief - April 2019

Solicitors' Risk in Brief - April 2019

02 abril 2019

Solicitors' Risks in Brief October 2018

Solicitors' Risks in Brief October 2018

11 octubre 2018

Solicitor Risk in Brief May 2018

Solicitor Risk in Brief May 2018

30 mayo 2018

Dreamvar – the recurring nightmare for solicitors and PI insurers?

Dreamvar – the recurring nightmare for solicitors and PI insurers?

16 mayo 2018

Solicitors Risks In Brief October 2017

Solicitors Risks In Brief October 2017

06 octubre 2017

Supreme Court considers the appropriate approach to be taken to Solicitors' Costs

Supreme Court considers the appropriate approach to be taken to Solicitors' Costs

30 agosto 2017

Solicitors Risks In Brief April 2017

Solicitors Risks In Brief April 2017

11 abril 2017

The Supreme Court finally speaks on Aggregation

The Supreme Court finally speaks on Aggregation

23 marzo 2017

Supreme Court hands down its decision in BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland (in substitution for Gabriel) [2017] UKSC 21

Supreme Court hands down its decision in BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland (in substitution for Gabriel) [2017] UKSC 21

22 marzo 2017

The scope of the retainer and the engagement letter (Lyons v Fox Williams)

The scope of the retainer and the engagement letter (Lyons v Fox Williams)

04 noviembre 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief November 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief November 2016

02 noviembre 2016

Liabilities arising from funding agreement caught by debts and trading liabilities exclusion

Liabilities arising from funding agreement caught by debts and trading liabilities exclusion

26 octubre 2016

More problems on duties and causation for sophisticated clients

More problems on duties and causation for sophisticated clients

25 octubre 2016

"Tell me something I don't know!"

"Tell me something I don't know!"

14 julio 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief June 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief June 2016

20 junio 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief February 2016

Solicitors Risks In Brief February 2016

15 febrero 2016

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