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Anti-Money Laundering annual report 2021-22

Money laundering is not a victimless crime. It is a blight on our economy, on our society and on the lives of many often vulnerable individuals. Our annual Anti Money Laundering (AML) report details our work in this area and highlights key information on specific areas of our AML work for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

Review of first sitting of SQE2

The SQE2 written and oral exams were held for the first time in April 2022.

Pregnancy and maternity in the legal workplace

This report forms part of our suite of equality, diversity and inclusion resources for the profession. Although this report focuses on pregnancy and maternity leave, it also touches on paternity leave, and shared parental leave.

Workforce progress report 2021

Welcome to our 2021 SRA staff diversity report. Our report offers information about our staff and the initiatives we have taken during the year to make sure we have a diverse and inclusive workforce and a workplace that reflects our values.

Welcome to our suite of corporate reporting for the 2020/21 year

We have published separate but connected reports on Authorisation, Client Protection, Education and Training and our enforcement work (published under the title: Upholding Professional Standards) for the financial year from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021.

Upholding Professional Standards 2020/21 - Corporate report

Welcome to the third annual Upholding Professional Standards report which covers 2020/21

Client protection, interventions and the compensation fund 2020/21 - Corporate report

If we know that people are at risk of receiving legal services from a dishonest solicitor, or it is, for some other reason, necessary to protect the interests of clients, we can take action and close down a firm or a solicitor’s practice.

Upholding Professional Standards 2020/21 – Diversity Monitoring, Supporting Report - Corporate report

This report supports our 2020/21 Upholding Professional Standards publication.

Law firms' views of customer review sites

To capture solicitors’ views on and their use of review and price comparison websites for legal services, we devised a questionnaire. The Access Group circulated a link to this online questionnaire to their panel members; 264 respondents took part in the survey; 198 completed the questionnaire in full and 66 partially completed it.

Consumer understanding and use of Digital Comparison Tools

The sample of 1,000 respondents is a good reflection of the population for gender and ethnicity but over-represents those aged 55 and over by 10% at the expense of 18–24-year-olds.