SRA 

All information in this review is publicly available or archived on the Wayback Machine. I am a protected whistleblower under PIDA 1998. I have spent two years documenting the SRA's systematic failure to regulate the legal profession. This is not a series of mistakes. This is a deliberate pattern of regulatory capture. The SRA is not a watchdog. It is a lapdog with a badge.

THE NUMBERS DONT LIE. In 2024/25 the SRA's AML enforcement actions produced fines totalling just £953,333 from 73 penalties. The legal sector is estimated to be involved in laundering over £100 billion annually according to the NCA. Only 13% of assessed firms were fully compliant with AML rules down from 22% the previous year. This is not a compliance failure. This is a regulatory collapse. The SRA's statutory fining cap is just £25,000 per penalty forcing them to refer larger cases to the SDT a process that is time consuming and resource intensive. The governments own factsheet admits other frontline regulators can levy penalties without secondary legislation putting the SRA at a competitive enforcement disadvantage.

THE AXIOM INCE SCANDAL is the biggest regulatory failure in the SRA's recent history. The Serious Fraud Office charged five men following the collapse of Axiom Ince involving the misappropriation of over £60 million of client money. All five were charged with conspiring to mislead the SRA using false documents. The SRA failed to recognise the unique risks posed by accumulator firms despite prior collapses of similar entities. The SRA was warned about this risk as early as 2014. The SRA missed an opportunity to uncover the fraud a year before it eventually shut the firm down. The SRA's investigation did not carry out an effective inspection and did not have in place an adequate procedure to confirm client account balances directly with a firm's bank. Even standard procedures were ignored allowing forged documents to go unnoticed. The SRA eventually intervened in October 2023 but by then approximately £64 million had already been misappropriated. A partial intervention allowed further losses of £36 million from client accounts. The SRA also failed to conduct due diligence during Axiom's acquisitions of Ince Gordon Dadds and Plexus Legal missing opportunities to uncover mismanagement earlier.

THE LEGAL SERVICES BOARD rated the SRA as providing insufficient assurance against Operational Delivery the lowest possible rating. The LSB is actively pursuing enforcement action directly against the SRA for Axiom Ince. The LSB is conducting a separate independent review into the SSB Group collapse another high profile regulatory failure.

CHRIS BOYCE THE BURGER KING OF REGULATION closed my complaint without asking a single question and sent me a How did i do today survey mocking me . Andy Wardle reviewed it and found it reasonable. I provided evidence of perjury. I provided evidence of an unregulated legal entity. I provided evidence of a scrubbed solicitor. They did nothing. The SRA is not a regulator. It is a protection racket. The SRA has lost a high profile AML case against global law firm Dentons undermining the regulator's authority worldwide. The SRA is being stripped of AML supervision by the FCA a humiliating admission of regulatory failure. The FCA is described by legal commentators as tougher more data driven more rules based and more focused on evidence.

THE SRA IS A FAILED REGULATOR. It cannot protect consumers the public or the integrity of the legal profession. I am a protected whistleblower. Everything above is documented verifiable and publicly available. The SRA cannot scrub the truth. They cannot silence me. And they cannot hide from the evidence.

Do not trust the SRA. They are not who they say they are.

dreadful...
it is abundantly clear that they are predisposed to accept whatever they are told by the solicitor who is being complained about....
re my complaint... the solicitor involved made practically no effort
to find me...which has cost the estate a considerable amount of money as it involved 6 containers of chattels and despite having an obligation to make all reasonable efforts ...their effort involved writing a letter to an address I hadn't lived at for over 30 years and that was all...which the SRA found acceptable...in addition the solicitor also failed to inform me about a trust of which I was a part beneficiary and sold shares belonging to it without my permission...when I asked for details regarding sale and the trust accounts re shares the solicitor refused to provide them and in fact provided the wrong set of acounts informing me they were the ones I requested...which the SRA also found
acceptable, so my advice is, don't waste your time, they are nothing more than a fig leaf to give the illusion of accountability...

The SRA gets a lot of criticism from solicitors and while I understand this the service I received today was excellent. I had a problem logging into the new solicitors website. I am a complete idiot when it comes to IT but the two people to whom I spoke at the SRA were patient and extremely helpful. I am most grateful.

SRA Solicitors Regulation Authority UK

Before I began my court case,I was encouraged by solicitors to pursue it, I was optimistic that Justice existed. I know now how foolish, gullible and naive I was to trust in the system. I never knew there was such an entity as a corrupt solicitor/s, corrupt process, blatant disregard for Court procedure etc., -Unfortunately, I became a victim of professional misconduct.

However, I 100% believed that when I presented the fraud & crime to SRA it would be dealt with in an honest manner. Sadly, I was to understand that there is no justice. SRA backed corruption, that was obvious to a child.

I stumbled upon a huge can of worms, and collusion runs deep.

Any authors who want to write about this, Id be pleased to assist in exposing crime that I witnessed first hand.

If court can be avoided, I’d advise never to visit one. Unless you have studied Law yourself. I hope that there is reform soon.

There are other avenues to pursue. Bar Standards fare no better - it protects its own and even with evidence they become blind and deaf.

If you have question’s please ask :

Criminals protecting criminals - that sums it up.

They claim if a lawyer lies to the court, cheats, advises their clients to lie and hide their assets, make accusations without evidence, then the solicitor is doing her job! Bravo! I have their letter and all the evidence. Another wasteful organisation to give the veneer that family courts are not corrupt.

It is a crime to cover up a crime. I honestly believe that the Solicitor's Regulation Authority (SRA) are not fit for purpose. The basis of this view is my experience of their suspected deliberate use of delays in refusing to deal with complaints which would hold solicitors to account for failing to act on concerns raised regarding actual financial, psychological and physical abuse of a vulnerable adult. They deliberately had their rules weakened in 2019 to excuse them from the costly 'inconvenience' of any kind of duty of care over their clients. Now they can't or won't do anything when solicitors enable and ignore domestic abuse so they just employ delay tactics and conduct half-hearted and incomplete reviews. This runs directly against intent of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Yes, delays can now be used intentionally as a weapon against whistleblowers. This tactic, often referred to as "stonewalling" or "delaying tactics," can be a form of retaliation, undermining the whistleblower's efforts and discouraging them from continuing to speak out. I think they wanted me to fade away or give up. Good luck with that one. We are all responsible for our behaviour to others, solicitor or not.

the so called SRA utter and total corrupted to the core a true disgrace to the rule of law, human rights and the client care that must be dismantled .

Like many before me, I've also just realised SAR are fraudsters.

Regardless of the content of your complaint, nothing will be done!!

SRA is fraud it’s a set Up game for all legal worker to protect the crime . I had clear case to win was clear fraud case and my solicitor set Uk the case in the middle before court they submit wrong information to CP18 after even written emails . Put wrong on court submission in the court room judge pointed why was not correct before the court ! But before the the court hearing solicitor drop out for. In case I have to pay 14 k to take my file to 2nd solicitor less then 10days of court hearings ! It was wrong way submit my case to court file by the solicitor , after judges comment with full evidence rejected case to SRA but they ignore the fact law and comment of judge & evidence of emails for the answer was wrongly submitted to court file , still SRA did but find the solicitor did wrong !
They ignore all evidence and allow this scam solicitor farm to practice in public who is very dishonest .
Try to avoid the solicitor farm person hard in new Malden if you can Also SRA and regulator body who is head of crime supporter .
Totally waste of time and destroying public faith and head of revoke for personal gain .
I use to proud of our justice system now I list it all because it’s a game there is no justice is just game waste or money energy and faith .
Our legal system need to fixed for better future and all the Correption need to go away remove all bad people from position is best I think .
SRA is fraud as well as our legal system .

I asked where is form showing legal aid application from sra. They said ask solicitor. I asked solicitor, they fail to reply. Because the form is fraudulently filled, I have limited proof, but no one shows the form.

Legal aid is allowed for family law due to social engineering. And sra and solicitors are turning a blind eye to it and allowing legal aid for people who can't speak English and make hearsay claims of violence and getting barristers to represent them in court to tell the other parent, that they have rights to restrict the other parent from seeing their children. Plus legal aid helps with divorce too. They milk the system and string it out so it taking 3 years so far and I'm not legally allowed to see my own child. No where in law is there a time limit to see your children...it is criminal and modern day slavery for them to do this and allow this under the umbrella of law

The Chief Executive of the SRA is Mr Paul Philip.
Formal Complaint Against SRA for Theft and Fraud Ref.No. RGC 000132950

As we are court-appointed Deputies thus we are first-hand witnesses to the widespread theft and fraud committed by solicitors who are SRA members amounting to many £millions, our alone is in the region of £1,700,000.00+

It is the responsibility of the SRA to address formal allegations of widespread fraud and theft by your SRA members, the SRA have failed to act or respond under their mandate to keep client funds in a segregated account. The Chief Executive of the SRA is Mr Paul Philip is negligent in his duty, totally.

Don’t waste your time going to SRA if you have an issue with a solicitor,there the biggest load of biased individuals I have ever had the misfortune to encounter.

SRA is another con same as the Legal Ombudsman - it is time investigative journalists take over - it took them over 2 months to forward my conveyancing records after a practice closed down (I had to fill in tons of forms) - they always sound authoritarian, arrogant and ignorant - they are a bunch of thugs in suits trying to intimidate, fob and mislead the general public - it is a travesty - same as courts that take ages to do anything despite charging the earth - also they never answer any questions - not interested in your cheap excuses - most firms are there to blackmail people for cash - advocacy provided is a joke - QED as they say in Latin - a waste of space in English

Just called the SRA asking what requisite documentation a client must sign before instructing a solicitor and what information, documentation and identification the client must provide. Was advised this fell under the category of "legal advice", my questions wouldn't be answered and that I should seek "independent legal advice". I explained I wasn't seeking legal advice, just clarification of what rules solicitors regulated by the SRA must follow. Same answer - "seek independent legal advice". This would be comical if it wasn't so troubling. The SRA refuses to advise the public what rules solicitors they regulate must follow.