Contents

Foreword by Sir Anthony Clarke, the Master of the Rolls;
Part 1 Overview: 1. The regulatory and disciplinary landscape;
2. The future and the Legal Services Act 2007:
Part 2 The Rules: 3. The Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007;
4. The Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998;
5. Financial services regulation;
6. Professional indemnity Insurance;
7. Registered European lawyers and registered foreign lawyers;
8. Conduct unbefitting a solicitor;
Part 3 Fraud and Money Laundering:
9. The risks of fraud;
10. Money laundering;
Part 4 The Regulatory and Disciplinary System in Practice:
11. The Legal Complaints Service - complaints by clients;
12. The Solicitors Regulation Authority - conduct Investigations;
13. Practising certificate controls;
14. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal;
15. Intervention;
16. The High Court;
17. Control of solicitors' employees;
18. Sources of help;
'Part 5 Appendices (21 in total) - including the full Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007 and official guidance,
the Solicitors' Accounts Rules (as amended in January 2008),
all regulations concerned with financial services,
Indemnity Insurance Rules,
the latest Money Laundering Regulations,
the Disciplinary Tribunal's rules of procedure and relevant extracts from the Solicitors Act and other statutes.

About the Authors

Andrew Hopper QC was admitted as a solicitor in 1972, obtained higher rights of audience in 1994, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2001 (the fifth solicitor advocate to be appointed Silk and the first outside the City of London). He is described in Chambers UK (2007) as “the oracle of all things relating to solicitors' disciplinary proceedings”. He has specialised in the field of professional regulation and discipline since 1979.

Gregory Treverton-Jones QC, barrister-at-law, of 39 Essex Street, was called to the Bar in 1977, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002. He has practised in the field of professional discipline and regulation since the early 1990s. He has been instructed in many of the leading cases arising out of the professional conduct of solicitors, appearing both for and against the Law Society in applications for judicial review, statutory appeals, and challenges to interventions. He is described in Chambers UK (2007) as "a Law Society guru".