Price transparency v choice - SRA obligations on price publishing
Working life as a debt recovery Solicitor is a rich tapestry of clients whose business threads are every imaginable colour, debtors every imaginable material and chances of success (based on numerous other variables) every imaginable shape and size. That variety I get to enjoy every day is the reason why I do what I do. How then, I ask myself, as I read the SRA guidance (you can read by clicking the link here - https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/guidance/ethics-guidance/price-transparency.page ), am I going to maintain client choice (and act in my client’s best interests) to accommodate all sectors and all debt types when I am forced by the SRA to publish my pricing online in December? My clients are not numbers to me. They are each unique and I want to be able to treat them as such so I can properly look after them by pricing accordingly. Some of you might say well of course he doesn’t want to publish his figures but there is far more to this than that. How exactl...