Posted by Legal Futures Editor Neil Rose

The thousand or so compliance officers gathering tomorrow morning at the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) annual compliance conference in Birmingham could be excused for having a distinct sense of déjà vu.

The week before last year’s event, the Legal Services Board (LSB) published a highly critical report into how the SRA had been operating and initiated enforcement action as a result. This year, ditto.

The timing on both occasions was not coincidental, I suspect. But there is, however, one crucial difference between the Carson McDowell reviews of the SRA’s actions in relation to Axiom Ince and SSB Law.

Chair Anna Bradley and chief executive Paul Philip infamously refused to apologise to the profession about the Axiom Ince collapse as the

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