Welcome to the latest RACO Roundup for July 2026! We’re keeping you ahead and informed with essential updates in the world of law and compliance. This month, we’re focusing on these fundamental compliance areas:
- Importance of Self-Reporting to the SRA – Risk, Strategy and Reputation Management: detailing why and when to self-report to the SRA and the importance of early action.
- AML Risk Assessments Still Catching Firms Out: AML compliance lessons from recent SRA decisions.
- The SRA Confirms New Complaints Handling Focus: Why firms should be reviewing their complaints handling processes now.
- SRA Wants Notification Before Mergers and Acquisitions Go Through: Proposals from the SRA on updated notification obligations.
- More Firms Referred to the SRA Over AI-Generated Authorities: highlighting how judges across England and Wales are hardening their position on the misuse of generative AI in the preparation of court documents.
As ever, our Security Section rounds off the issue with the latest scam alerts from the SRA.
Importance of Self-Reporting to the SRA: Risk, Strategy and Reputation Management
If you have discovered a breach of the Standards and Regulations, it is natural to feel uncertain about what, and when, an issue needs to be reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Additionally, if you do, what will happen next? While the idea of reporting yourself to the SRA can feel daunting, it’s not just the right thing to do (and a requirement for serious breaches); it is a smart thing to do before someone else does, or before the regulator discovers the issue independently.
Read the full article here: Importance of Self-Reporting to the SRA: Risk, Strategy and Reputation Management
AML Risk Assessments Still Catching Firms Out
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published a run of enforcement decisions during July 2026 that tell a consistent story firms should be paying attention to. The AML Proactive Supervision team is still working through firms methodically, including with its desk-based reviews, and the failures it keeps finding are nothing new. They are failures being seen on a consistent basis: firm-wide risk assessments that were never adequate, and client and matter risk assessments that were carried out but never properly recorded.
Read the full article here: AML Risk Assessments Still Catching Firms Out.
The SRA Confirms New Complaints Handling Focus
Earlier this month, we discussed the Legal Ombudsman’s proposed reforms to tackle record complaint demand, including differentiated case fees and additional charges for firms that fail to issue a final response at first tier. At the time, we said the focus was shifting towards how complaints are handled long before they ever reach the Ombudsman. In this follow up guide, we look at the new SRA proposals.
Read the full article here: The SRA Confirms New Complaints Handling Focus.
SRA Wants Notification Before Mergers and Acquisitions Go Through
Updates to data protection laws in the UK have been in place since the start of February 2026, so if perhaps in response to the recent increase in merger activity and some of the high-profile cases of law firm collapses, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has opened a consultation asking whether it should be given the power to require firms to notify it of a contemplated merger or acquisition. The proposal is that this information should be shared when a deal reaches the heads of term stage or equivalent.
Read the full article here: SRA Wants Notification Before Mergers and Acquisitions Go Through.
More Firms Referred to the SRA Over AI-Generated Authorities
In the space of just a few weeks, the Law Society Gazette has reported on two further sets of law firms and their staff being referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) after fake legal authorities, suspected to have been generated by AI, were placed before the court. In one case, a small West Midlands firm in a civil appeal application. In the other, international firm Pinsent Masons and three of its solicitors, following what Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Mullen described as “astonishing” AI failures that twice misled the court.
Read the full article here: More Firms Referred to the SRA Over AI-Generated Authorities
Latest SRA Scam Alerts
Warning: Correspondence received and website operating and claiming to be a law firm ‘Corbin, Bauman & Associates’
Date: 29 July 2026
The Scam:
The SRA is aware that a website is operating at ‘https://corbinbaumanpc.com/’ and falsely claiming to provide legal services provided by solicitors. A member of the public has also contacted the SRA to inform that they received an email from an individual purporting to be a ‘private investigator’ allegedly working alongside a solicitor managing the estate of a late client. The ‘private investigator’ requested that they make contact with the solicitor who would explain the position regarding an alleged inheritance claim
Fraudulent Contact Details:
The bogus website at ‘https://corbinbaumanpc.com/’ features a notice on the page which suggests that advice can be provided by a solicitor. It also provides the telephone number of ‘+44 118 464 0387’, the email addresses of ‘help@corbinbaumanpc.com’ and ‘documents@corbinbaumanpc.com’. The website also includes the addresses of ’55-57 Banner St, London EC1Y 8PX, UK’ and ‘Talstrasse 38, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland’.
Is there a genuine firm or person?
The SRA does not authorise or regulate any of the above individuals or a firm named ‘Corbin, Bauman & Associates’.
Any business or transaction through the website https://precisionlegalltd.com or the email and telephone number or email address above are not undertaken by a firm or individual authorised and regulated by the SRA.
Warning: Correspondence sent misusing the name and details of Kim Rogers and JNP Legal Limited
Date: 28 July 2026
The Scam:
Correspondence sent to a member of the public falsely claiming to be from Kim Rogers and JNP Legal Limited.
Fraudulent Contact Details:
The SRA has been informed that an email has been sent to a member of the public containing correspondence which misuses the name and details of a genuine solicitor and a genuine firm (see below).
The email was sent from the email address alert.rosalee@elsmh.healthknowledgecenter.info and contains a letter referring to a supposed property sale.
The letter provides the telephone number ‘01443 706417’, fax number ‘01685 723654’, email address Liberty@jnplegal.org, office address 1 High Street, Nelson, Treharris, CF46 6EU and directs the recipient to ask for ‘Liberty Jones’.
Any business or transaction through the email address alert.rosalee@elsmh.healthknowledgecenter.info and/or the letter is not undertaken by a firm or individual authorised and regulated by the SRA.
Is there a genuine firm or person?
The SRA authorises and regulates a genuine solicitor called Kim Rogers (SRA ID 400888). The telephone number ‘01443 706417’ is the genuine direct line for Kim Rogers at JNP Legal Limited.
The SRA authorises and regulates a genuine firm called JNP Legal Limited (SRA number 562715). The genuine firm uses the email domain @jnplegal.org, telephone number 01685350421, fax number 01685 723654 and head office address 15 Glebeland Street, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AU.
JNP Legal Limited has a branch office (SRA ID 563835) with the address 1 High Street, Nelson, Treharris, CF46 6EU. This office uses the telephone number 01443450561 and fax number 01443451987.
The genuine firm of solicitors JNP Legal Limited has confirmed that neither it nor Kim Rogers has any connection to the correspondence referred to in the above alert.
If you’ve been contacted by any of these scams or received suspicious correspondence claiming to be from a law firm, always verify directly using established contact details before responding or taking any action. For the full and up-to-date list of SRA scam alerts, visit the SRA Scam Alerts Page.
BEEN CONTACTED?
Here’s What to Do…
When a firm’s or individual’s identity has been copied or cloned, due diligence is necessary. If you receive correspondence you believe to be suspicious, you should conduct your own due diligence by checking the authenticity of the correspondence by contacting the law firm directly by reliable and established means.
You can also contact the SRA directly to find out if individuals or firms are regulated and authorised by the SRA and verify an individual’s or firm’s practising details. Other verification methods, such as checking public records (e.g. telephone directories and company records), may be required in other circumstances.
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