Solicitors have welcomed an assurance from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) that the ban on solicitors’ cold calling for personal injury will not be lifted. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) said there were concerns the SRA would remove the ban from the draft version of the new solicitors’ handbook. However, the SRA confirmed last week that the ban would stay in place. Apil president Neil Sugarman says: “I am delighted that the SRA has listened to concerns, because it’s really important that we do as much as we can to get rid of the scourge of cold calling for personal injury.”
22 September 2016
SRA: ban on cold calling to remain
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