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From: Wear_The_Fox_Hat <[FOI #957792 email]>
Sent: 08 March 2023 01:45
To: SRA Information Compliance <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Solicitors Regulation Authority
- Fit For Purpose? ...

Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,

I refer to Mr Bert Domenic's post/request of 12 February 2023 ('Firms
Perverting the Course of Justice') ...

[6]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...

Mr Domenic asked are you, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), 'the
competent authority' to investigate the failings of the legal profession
[your own SRA-regulated
fee-paying 'regulated' members], to which you, the SRA, responded that you
are the 'Regulator of Solicitors and Law Firms in England and Wales'.

In addition, in Mr Matt Cooper's post/request of 14 February 2023,
('Complaints received in January 2023') ...

[7]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

One of Mr Cooper's queries was how many complaints you, the SRA, had
received about yourselves in January 2023 (currently awaiting a response).

Having subsequently checked on Trustpilot to confirm just how 'competent'
the said 'competent authority' is, this was the verdict ...

[8]https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.sra...

The SRA is doubtless(?) aware that, from 247 reviews (as at 07.03.23), the
'Regulator of Solicitors and Law Firms in England and Wales' has a truly
shocking and appalling 100% negative rating. Since all of these
complainants/victims cannot possibly be wrong, under the SRA's own
voluntary Transparency Code ('the Code') that closely reflects the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), my question to the SRA is this - given
such unanimous
and fiercely critical ratings (and no replies from the SRA) about its
competence as the 'Regulator of Solicitors and Law Firms in England and
Wales', is the SRA Fit For Purpose in the valid and legitimate public
interest? ... a simple binary answer will suffice - yes? / no?

If your answer is in the affirmative, in the face of such a sustained
chorus of disapproval and universal opprobrium from the aforementioned 247
Trustpilot complainants/victims at the hands of your SRA-regulated
fee-paying 'regulated' members, please explain HOW you can justify such a
claim in the valid and legitimate public interest?

Thanking you.

Yours faithfully,

Wear_The_Fox_Hat.

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