The SRA wants solicitors to pay more for regulation. The regulator has opened a consultation on its draft business plan and budget for 2026/27. It wants £111.5 million in overall funding. That is £25 million more than last year, a…

The Bar Standards Board wants a new power to challenge health panel decisions. Health panels deal with barristers whose ability to practise may be affected by illness or a medical condition. The BSB wants the power to appeal those decisions…

The plan to move CILEX regulation to the SRA has been dropped. The proposal would have moved the regulation of CILEX members to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. In theory, it offered a cleaner system, with solicitors and chartered legal executives…

The SRA has reportedly been ordered to explain how up to £40m of client money went missing from the PM Law group. The order, reported on 7 May, lands in a profession already questioning whether the regulator spots danger early…

A school’s attempt to stop an out-of-time disability discrimination claim has failed in the Upper Tribunal. The case concerns a mother’s claim over the permanent exclusion of her son, identified as C, against the governing body of a school. Disability…

The Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 6 May in the litigation brought by Municipio de Mariana and many other claimants against BHP Group entities. The case arises from the Samarco dam collapse in Brazil, a disaster which killed…

The FCA has put Mastercard, Visa and PayPal under formal competition scrutiny over the way PayPal’s digital wallet is funded and used. The FCA confirmed on 6 May that it is investigating Mastercard, PayPal and Visa under Chapter I of…