SRA intervention in court proceedings or attachment as an interested party
Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
Please could you tell me how many times (and the name / number of the court case) in which the SRA (or its predecessor)
1. intervened in court proceedings as an intervenor (and why)
2. Attached itself to court proceedings as an interested party (and why)
3. Wrote to the judge expressing concerns (and why).
Please can you tell me, in each case, whether the SRA's achieved the outcome it desired.
Yours faithfully,
Frances Lewis
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Dear Ms Lewis,
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Yours sincerely,
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From: Frances Lewis <[FOI #913824 email]>
Sent: 04 November 2022 10:11
To: SRA Information Compliance <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - SRA intervention in court
proceedings or attachment as an interested party
Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
Please could you tell me how many times (and the name / number of the
court case) in which the SRA (or its predecessor)
1. intervened in court proceedings as an intervenor (and why)
2. Attached itself to court proceedings as an interested party (and why)
3. Wrote to the judge expressing concerns (and why).
Please can you tell me, in each case, whether the SRA's achieved the
outcome it desired.
Yours faithfully,
Frances Lewis
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Dear SRA Information Compliance,
Please can you tell me why you haven't given me the complete set of cases, including Maitland Hudson and the one about the "will", which your Director Of Corporate Complaints told me about, said she would provide (but didn't) and I cannot find. Could I have the full list please.
Yours sincerely,
Frances Lewis
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Dear Ms Lewis,
In our response we stated:
“We are not able to provide the information you have requested. This is
because we do not hold the information you have requested in a way that
can be extracted from our records.
To provide this information would require a lengthy manual review which
would take longer than the 18 hours we are limited to in Transparency Code
requests.”
Regarding the information we were able to provide, we explained:
“We are however able to provide a list of times we have intervened in
civil proceedings. Please note this is not exhaustive”
Yours sincerely,
Jack Baraczewski (he/him)
Information Governance Officer
Solicitors Regulation Authority
The Cube, Birmingham
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From: Frances Lewis <[FOI #913824 email]>
Sent: 04 January 2023 11:03
To: SRA Information Compliance <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - SRA intervention in court
proceedings or attachment as an interested party
Dear SRA Information Compliance,
Please can you tell me why you haven't given me the complete set of cases,
including Maitland Hudson and the one about the "will", which your
Director Of Corporate Complaints told me about, said she would provide
(but didn't) and I cannot find. Could I have the full list please.
Yours sincerely,
Frances Lewis
Dear SRA Information Compliance,
Internal Review Please
Thank you, but I don't believe you. Ask your Head Of Corporate Complaints. She was going to find out this information last year and never reverted. Ask your Head of Legal and Enforcement. I do not believe that the SRA does not know about cases it got involved in, whether it won, lost, was awarded costs or lost and had to pay costs. I am asking you for cases the SRA was involved in relevantly recently. How is this going to involve more than 18 hours of work? Where did you find the list of other cases, and why aren't the more recent ones appended to that list? Please conduct an internal review.
Yours sincerely,
Frances Lewis
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Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Solicitors Regulation Authority's handling of my FOI request 'SRA intervention in court proceedings or attachment as an interested party'.
I am afraid I do not believe your response is correct. There will be a list of all the cases, some of them relatively recent (which you have excluded). I believe you have truncated the list. I do not believe that you do not have the details to hand, or they are not to be found in the same place as the others. If the cost is "too great" as you say, what is the cost of obtaining this information? Presumably you must give me the option of paying for it. These are court records and all I need is the name of the cases so that I can look up the facts myself or explained what happened. I am not even asking you how much in costs the SRA paid (or received). I am not asking you to send me the court records. These will be public records, but difficult to find if I don't know the name of the case. I just want the names of the cases you have omitted from your list please.
It is in the public interest to know what cases the SRA has intervened in as there will be a cost to this action which his funded by the legal profession in fees and any cost to the legal profession will be passed on to the consumer of legal services, like me.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
Frances Lewis
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We are the regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales. The
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Our registered offices are: The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street, Birmingham, B1
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Dear Ms Lewis,
Thank you for your email.
Please find my internal review of your request attached.
Yours sincerely,
Petra Wiltshire
Information Governance and Compliance Manager
Solicitors Regulation Authority
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From: Frances Lewis <[FOI #913824 email]>
Sent: 17 January 2023 16:30
To: SRA Information Compliance <[email address]>
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - SRA
intervention in court proceedings or attachment as an interested party
Dear Solicitors Regulation Authority,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Solicitors Regulation
Authority's handling of my FOI request 'SRA intervention in court
proceedings or attachment as an interested party'.
I am afraid I do not believe your response is correct. There will be a
list of all the cases, some of them relatively recent (which you have
excluded). I believe you have truncated the list. I do not believe that
you do not have the details to hand, or they are not to be found in the
same place as the others. If the cost is "too great" as you say, what is
the cost of obtaining this information? Presumably you must give me the
option of paying for it. These are court records and all I need is the
name of the cases so that I can look up the facts myself or explained what
happened. I am not even asking you how much in costs the SRA paid (or
received). I am not asking you to send me the court records. These will be
public records, but difficult to find if I don't know the name of the
case. I just want the names of the cases you have omitted from your list
please.
It is in the public interest to know what cases the SRA has intervened in
as there will be a cost to this action which his funded by the legal
profession in fees and any cost to the legal profession will be passed on
to the consumer of legal services, like me.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[2]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
Frances Lewis
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