The chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said yesterday that he did consider resigning in the wake of the report on SSB Law but decided that “it wasn’t the right thing”.

But Paul Philip conceded that the timing of his imminent retirement “has probably worked quite well”.

Questions have been asked about accountability at the top of the regulator – beyond the apologies it has made – in the wake of the systemic shortcomings outlined in the report on SSB Law published last week by the Legal Services Board that meant it missed multiple warning signs.

Speaking at a media briefing at yesterday’s SRA compliance conference in Birmingham, chair Anna Bradley repeated her insistence from last week that the board of the SRA did not think resignations were needed and that “mor

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