Upholding Professional Standards
We received 10,358 reports of concerns about the profession in 2020/21. Of the reports we received...
we referred
1,816
for investigation
and there were
268
internal sanctions
There were
101
cases heard at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Sanctions included
36 fines
12 suspensions
52 strike offs
We spent
£14.2m
on our disciplinary work
We continue to see the longstanding overrepresentation of men and solicitors from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in concerns raised with us, and those we investigate.
To help us, and others, to understand why we, like so many regulators are seeing this pattern, we have commissioned new independent research which will provide insight into what is happening.
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