DG Legal Monthly Newsletters

Each month we provide our Retainer clients with a highly rated compliance bulletin covering what they need to know and what action they must take. Below we provide short summaries of our compliance bulletins as monthly newsletters.

This month's newsletter covers:

Compliance & Management

  • Remaining on the Role
  • Investigative & Litigation Support Service providers
  • New charge for financial product mis-selling claims
  • SRA’s Lawtech Insight

AML & Financial Crime Prevention

  • High Risk Third Countries
  • Trade Sanctions
  • Crypto Technologies

Legal Aid

  • Crime Duty Solicitor April 2025 rotas
  • New Functionality within ‘Apply for Criminal Legal Aid’
  • Special Children Act case outcomes reporting changes
  • Section 8 Fully Costs Case Plans
  • Apply for legal aid for civil contempt cases

This month's newsletter covers:

Compliance & Management

  • SRA Survey on Complaints Handling

AML and Financial Crime Prevention

  • When did you last check your AML authorisation?
  • Sham Litigation

BSB

  • Entity Renewal Process
  • BSB Five Year Strategy

Legal Aid

  • Recent Criminal Legal Aid Fee Increases for Lower End Work
  • Legal Aid Consultation
  • 2025 Crime Contract Tender Verification
  • Legal Aid Agency Auditing
  • Updated Forms

This month's newsletter covers:

Compliance & Management

  • Risks in the Legal Profession
  • SRA Thematic Reviews of Professional obligations and Probate
  • Ongoing and future SRA Investigatory work

Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC)

  • Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner rebrand

AML and Financial Crime Prevention

  • Increased SRA investigative activity – AML audits and desk-based reviews

Legal Aid

  • Change to LAA’s debt collection agency
  • Crime Tender 2025 (Stage One Applicants)
  • Crime Tender 2025 (Stage Two Applicants)
  • Unbilled Inactive Cases Exercise

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