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Quality of legal services for asylum seekers

Research on the quality of legal advice provided to asylum seekers.

Review of the compensation fund

The Financial Protection Committee's compensation fund review working party has completed its 18-month review of the compensation fund under terms of reference agreed by the committee following consultation with the representative Law Society.

Topic:

Compensation

Research on lawyer-client relationships in large firms

Researchers interviewed 53 senior corporate and finance lawyers from 20 of the largest corporate law firms in England and Wales to understand how the lawyer-client relationships works in larger firms.

Innovation in legal services

The legal services sector plays a critical role in facilitating commercial and domestic activity and in administering justice.

Topic:

Innovation

Education and Training report 2013/2014

A report on authorisation and monitoring activity for the period 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2014

Workforce Education and Training Arrangements in Regulated Entities

This document reports the findings from research undertaken to explore workforce education and training arrangements in providers of legal services regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Research on alternative business structures (ABSs)

A wide range of ABS applicants were invited to contribute their views, including those who made up the very first cohort of firms to apply for ABS licences.

Topic:

ABSs

Review of SRA Regulatory Management

This report examines the impacts of our supervision approach to high impact firms, otherwise referred to as Regulatory Management (RM).

The role of in-house solicitors

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) commissioned Oxera to conduct economic research into the role of in-house solicitors.

Thematic study of compliance with Principle 9

Thematic review: In the latter part of 2012, we carried out thematic supervision visits with firms to find out what arrangements they had in place to meet Principle 9