Litigation Letter
LSB v SRA
LSB v SRA
A spat between the Legal Services Board and the Solicitors Regulation Authority arising out of the regulator’s alleged failings
reminded Stuart Bushell in the Solicitors Journal of 5 March of a famous Bill Tidy cartoon, set at a steamship company after
the Titanic disaster. There are many people seeking news of the passengers but one man has a polar bear on a lead, with the
caption reading “No, but is there any news of the iceberg?” The recent exchange between the Legal Services Board on the future
of the separate business rule in the SRA Code of Conduct reminded him that it is easy for two people to look at exactly the
same situation in completely different ways.