Topic Managing the interface with other regulators: whether it is lawyers, who provide financial services in a firm that need to be regulated, or co-regulators for those who permit MDPs? Brief History/Background The Society’s solicitor members have traditionally conducted financial services as part of their business activities. Up until 1988 this financial services work was…
ICLR 2017 Panel: Separating out regulatory and representational work
Topic Separating out regulatory and representational work: Where do the boundaries lie? Changing regulatory structures: How to re-engineer existing regulatory structures into a new system? Facilitator: Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Executive Director (2015-2017) The State Bar of California Discussion points 1. Framing Are regulatory and representational organizations fundamentally different in their mission, roles and responsibilities? Can…
ICLR 2017 Panel: The appropriate role for a regulator
Topic The appropriate role for a regulator: How to avoid mission creep and when to accept it? Should, for example, a legal regulator be responsible for promoting access to justice and public legal awareness? Facilitator: Dr Vanessa Davies, Director General, Bar Standards Board (England and Wales) Discussion points 1. Framing To avoid mission creep, we…
ICLR 2017 Panel: Overview
Overview The discussion will be led by: 1. Chair – Nasser Al Taweel (NT), Chief Legal Officer, QFC Authority 2. Co-chair – Roscoe Banks (RB), Legal Director, QFC Authority “A good regulatory environment is an essential foundation for high performing nations to make their country a great place to work and live and to protect…
Potential legal and regulatory reform in Nigeria?
We are delighted that the Nigerian Bar Association has expressed interest in the ICLR network and will be sending representation to the Singapore conference. Although the NBA is only responsible for part of the system of regulating lawyers at present, it has taken a leadership role in promoting the adoption of a major overhaul of…
A tribute to Nik Swart: Chief Executive of South Africa Law Society
It is with deep shock and sadness that the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) announces the untimely death of its Chief Executive Officer and Director of Legal Education and Development (LEAD), Nic Swart at the age of 63. ‘The LSSA, its council, staff and the profession have lost a colleague, a dear friend, a…
ICLR 2017 – Panel: Anti-money laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism
A synopsis of panel session 2, which takes place on 5 October at ICLR Singapore, kindly provided by the session’s moderator, Ellyn S. Rosen – Regulation and Global Initiatives Counsel, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility. Conference materials will be made available to ICLR.net members after the conference. During the first day of the Conference,…
SRA consultation – Looking to the future: better information, more choice
The SRA is consulting on publishing more of the regulatory data that they hold about solicitors and firms they regulate. They are also consulting on asking the solicitors and firms they regulate to publish more information on the legal services they provide. The SRA is proposing to: require firms to publish their price for services…
SRA consultation – Looking to the future: phase two of our Handbook reforms
Following the SRA’s ‘Looking to the future‘ consultation in summer 2016, they are now consulting on further changes to their Handbook and their proposed revised Enforcement Strategy. This consultation also includes the transitional arrangements for the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). Through the Looking to the future programme, the SRA are: simplifying regulations…
ICLR 2017 Panel: A New Look at Regulators’ Roles and Responsibilities
This session will break conference participants into small discussion groups in which they will consider various issues relating to the evolving roles and responsibilities of new and mature legal regulators. Participants are asked to do preparation for this session by reading the short briefings prepared by the group facilitators relating to the topic they are…