Details of sponsorship funds, invitations and benefits in kind or gifts from Novitas, Ratesetter and Close Brothers
Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
Please provide details of any sponsorship or donation funds received by the SRA from Novitas Loans Limited, Ratesetter aka Retail Money Market Limited (a peer to peer lender) and Close Brothers since 2011.
This includes sponsorship for any law society events, including any regional Law Society Events, for example the Liverpool Law Society Annual Conference. Please provide details of who from the SRA attended the multiple Novitas Sponsored events, dinners, balls and conferences.
Please provide details of any meetings between SRA representatives and any representative of these companies along with the date, attendees and reason for meeting and any other information available.
Please provide details of any invitations (for example to events at the Shard Shangri-La in 2018, Tower Bridge, Ascot, and other sporting/cultural events), received from and attended by any employee or NED of the SRA, and any corporate gifts received by any means from these companies by SRA employees or representatives including those 'won' via 'competitions' at sponsored events, along with the nature of the gift or 'prize'.
Yours faithfully,
Rosie Heys
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Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
As per your request for clarification, dated 24 May 2022 and my email of yesterday, 24th May 2022 in response, the information I am requesting relates to staff employed by the SRA, including those working on consultancy contracts, Non Executive Directors and temporary contracts and any voluntary advisers.
Kind regards
Rosie Heys
Dear Rosie Heys
Thank you for your email of 21 May 2022 requesting information. I am treating this as an information request under the Law Society Freedom of Information Code of Practice ("the Code").
In your message you refer to “representatives of the Solicitors Regulation Authority”. It would be helpful if you will be so kind as to clarify your meaning of this particular requirement as we wish to avoid misinterpreting this. For example, do you mean staff employed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority?
In addition, regional (local) law societies operate as separate entities and as a consequence the Law Society has no influence over or access to information they may hold. If you wish to obtain information held by a regional law society, you will need to approach them directly. Please also note the following;
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Yours faithfully,
Rosie Heys
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Dear Ms Heys,
It is not clear from the below email chain what you are requesting as you
appear to have included a section of correspondence between yourself and
The Law Society.
Please note we (the SRA) are considering the following request under our
reference IG/TC/699:
“Please provide details of any sponsorship or donation funds received by
the SRA from Novitas Loans Limited, Ratesetter aka Retail Money Market
Limited (a peer to peer lender) and Close Brothers since 2011.
This includes sponsorship for any law society events, including any
regional Law Society Events, for example the Liverpool Law Society Annual
Conference. Please provide details of who from the SRA attended the
multiple Novitas Sponsored events, dinners, balls and conferences.
Please provide details of any meetings between SRA representatives and any
representative of these companies along with the date, attendees and
reason for meeting and any other information available.
Please provide details of any invitations (for example to events at the
Shard Shangri-La in 2018, Tower Bridge, Ascot, and other sporting/cultural
events), received from and attended by any employee or NED of the SRA, and
any corporate gifts received by any means from these companies by SRA
employees or representatives including those 'won' via 'competitions' at
sponsored events, along with the nature of the gift or 'prize'.”
If you have a further request which you would like to make to us here at
the SRA, please do so as a separate/new request via the whatdotheyknow
website or alternately to us directly. Information about how to make a
request directly can be found on our website here:
[1]https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/how-we-work/p...
Kind regards
Charlie Smith
Information Governance Officer
Solicitors Regulation Authority
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From: Rosie Heys <[FOI #863462 email]>
Sent: 25 May 2022 09:09
To: SRA Information Compliance <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Details of sponsorship
funds, invitations and benefits in kind or gifts from Novitas, Ratesetter
and Close Brothers
Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
As per your request for clarification, dated 24 May 2022 and my email of
yesterday, 24th May 2022 in response, the information I am requesting
relates to staff employed by the SRA, including those working on
consultancy contracts, Non Executive Directors and temporary contracts and
any voluntary advisers.
Kind regards
Rosie Heys
Dear Rosie Heys
Thank you for your email of 21 May 2022 requesting information. I am
treating this as an information request under the Law Society Freedom of
Information Code of Practice ("the Code").
In your message you refer to “representatives of the Solicitors Regulation
Authority”. It would be helpful if you will be so kind as to clarify your
meaning of this particular requirement as we wish to avoid misinterpreting
this. For example, do you mean staff employed by the Solicitors Regulation
Authority?
In addition, regional (local) law societies operate as separate entities
and as a consequence the Law Society has no influence over or access to
information they may hold. If you wish to obtain information held by a
regional law society, you will need to approach them directly. Please also
note the following;
The Law Society is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act (the
FOIA) as it is not a designated authority, but has adopted its own
voluntary Code which can be found at:
[7]https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/about-us/l...
The Code applies to all information held by the Law Society, excluding the
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). To request information from the SRA
please follow the link below:
http://www.sra.org.uk/sra/how-we-work/tr...
We are currently dealing with your request and will aim to respond
formally by 22 June 2022 which is 20 working days from the receipt of your
request.
Yours faithfully,
Rosie Heys
Dear Ms Heys
Please see attached response to your request for information.
Kind regards
Charlie Smith
Information Governance Officer
Solicitors Regulation Authority
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