October 16th, 2025
In the context of the Green Deal, the EU introduced rigid ESG reporting obligations for companies, which are now being rolled back as the EU legislator recognises the disproportionate regulatory burden faced by mid-sized businesses. By introducing the new classification of Small Mid-Caps (SMCs) in the Simplification Omnibus Packages, proposed in the first half of […]
Read More
October 15th, 2025
From 20 to 24 October 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will gather in Paris for its latest plenary and working group meetings that will set the direction of global anti-money-laundering policy. For the legal sector, these sessions matter more than many realise. The way FATF defines and interprets risk filters down into national […]
Read More
July 24th, 2025
At the recent LawCAB conference, a breakout session on alternative legal career routes sparked an important conversation. With speakers from CILEX Law School, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, and the Association of Costs Lawyers Training – and a diverse audience of students, law schools and employers – one key question emerged: Are we doing enough […]
Read More
March 20th, 2025
There are risks to the public in both the Scottish Government’s and the professional bodies’ proposed approaches to legal services regulatory reform. Is there another way forward? How can society ensure that those who regulate professionals or other regulated activities, are subject to proper scrutiny and oversight themselves? This is a live issue in Scotland […]
Read More
March 24th, 2021
The idea that technology might have a disruptive impact on the provision of legal services is not new. Concerns were raised about the impact on legal practice of fax machines in the 1980s, the internet in the 1990s and the Cloud in the 2000s. Technology offers the potential to crack seemingly intractable problems in the […]
Read More
March 24th, 2021
This short report summarises the findings from a directory of legal regulators which we prepared for the International Bar Association. The report picks out a number of interesting trends in the world of legal regulation including shifts towards national regulation and greater harmonisation in federal systems, as well as movement towards greater openness to foreign […]
Read More
