ABSTRACT The legal market is changing. Whether individual consumer or corporate client, the choice of services available to help manage or solve legal problems appears increasingly wide. Business process outsourcing, technology and data companies, accountants and other professional advisors are offering corporate clients new options to manage their legal affairs. Law firms are responding to this increasing competitive pressure with new services of their own. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), as the largest legal regulator in the UK, is liberalising its approach to regulation, removing prescriptions and inflexibilities, so that business and solicitors can compete and thrive in this changing market. The proposals will introduce greater flexibility for individual solicitors (including those currently described as in-house) to offer services to the public (including corporate clients) from businesses outside of legal regulation. A simpler and shorter Code of Conduct, focused separately on individual solicitors and firms that the SRA authorises, will increase flexibility and establish clear and high standards. The SRA expects that the increasing focus on proportionate and targeted regulation will support increased economic growth and thereby access to justice.

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律师监管局：展望未来

摘要 法律市场正在发生变化。无论是个人消费者还是企业客户，可用于帮助管理或解决法律问题的服务选择似乎越来越广泛。业务流程外包、技术和数据公司、会计师和其他专业顾问正在为企业客户提供管理法律事务的新选择。律师事务所正在通过自己的新服务来应对这种日益增加的竞争压力。作为英国最大的法律监管机构，律师监管局 (SRA) 正在放宽其监管方法，取消规定和不灵活性，以便企业和律师能够在这个不断变化的市场中竞争并蓬勃发展。这些提议将为个人律师（包括目前描述为内部的律师）提供更大的灵活性，以便向公众（包括公司客户）提供法律监管之外的业务服务。一个更简单、更简短的行为准则，分别侧重于 SRA 授权的个人律师和公司，将增加灵活性并建立明确和高标准。SRA 预计，越来越关注适度和有针对性的监管将支持经济增长，从而获得司法救助。