The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part I - Who Regulates This Regulator? (Only Itself!)
The United Kingdom's Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) series commences today, a day earlier than we had planned and then repeatedly said, stating that it would begin in February.
Put bluntly (but nevertheless factually), we'll show how the SRA is in effect washing its own hands, pretending to check its own homework, with a complaint sent to itself (about itself) and not even responding to polite, amicable, constructive and detailed messages. It's an exercise at time-wasting. Many people found this out by direct and personal experience.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs to face scrutiny from the political class (many politicians are themselves lawyers), so throughout the series we'll reach out to leads, links, and contacts. We've already begun contacting the media regarding the matter. We'll do more of that in the near future.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) seems to be full of misfits (we'll refrain from naming their staff; it would miss the point assuming the failure is institutional rather than individual).
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is basically unfit for purpose. I saw many other people saying the same online. They call it a regulatory failure. They have no faith in this 'regulator'. It fails vulnerable people and by doing so it protects powerful and well-connected abusers.
Our series will be chronological and complete, not a case of selective quoting or cherry-picking (i.e. no distortion by omission). Thus, it'll take a long time to complete (dozens of parts to come).
The story will be told from the point of view of the complainants (my wife and I). The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is familiar with us; if it suddenly offers to belatedly revisit the complaint, we'll turn that down as reactionary opportunism. We won't self-censor or prematurely terminate this series. █