A team of experts from York, Cardiff and Lancaster universities has been appointed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to investigate the over-representation of solicitors from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in reports made to it and in subsequent enforcement processes
The team will review the regulator’s decision making at the assessment stage to try to understand why a greater proportion of cases involving Black, Asian and minority solicitors are taken forward for investigation. Professional misconduct expert Claudia Gabbioneta, University of York, said the research project has ‘important implications for the future regulation of the legal profession’.
