You accepted a role.
Not a liability notice.
REACH LAW exists for COLPs who carry compliance responsibility without the infrastructure to prove it was exercised. The SRA does not inspect intent. It inspects evidence.
See where you standA full-time infrastructure role dressed in the language of a part-time appointment.
When you became the COLP, you accepted named personal liability for how your firm complies with SRA Regulation 19. Not collective liability. Yours. If the firm cannot demonstrate that its compliance decisions were made correctly and recorded accurately, that exposure sits with you.
The SRA does not inspect capability. It inspects evidence. Your firm's ability to do the work is not what protects you. The documentary record of how you governed that work is what protects you.
What COLPs face right now.
Operating without governance infrastructure.
AI tools running without a governance layer
Your fee earners use AI productivity tools. Those tools produce output. None produce a timestamped, attributable record that a compliance decision was made about that output. That gap is where your liability lives.
Probable compliance is not provable compliance
You probably comply. Most COLPs do. In a regulatory inspection, what is probable is irrelevant. What can be produced is what counts. The difference between probable and provable is governance infrastructure.
Inaction is a decision with consequences
Not commissioning governance infrastructure is itself a choice. When the SRA requests evidence and it cannot be produced, the absence of a system is the finding. That finding lands on you personally.
The SRA profiler database now includes your firm
A profiling database covering 9,000+ regulated firms. Your firm is in it. The data informing that profile includes your inspection history and complaint record. Governance infrastructure is what keeps that profile clean.
Infrastructure built for the person who carries the exposure.
The record that judgment was exercised
Every compliance decision is timestamped and attributed. When the SRA requests evidence, the record exists without reconstruction.
A binary gate on every AI output
Not 98% accurate. Fail-closed. Every AI output passes a governance check or it does not. The outcome is permanently recorded.
Protection for the named person
Real-time dashboard built for the COLP alone. Not the firm. Not the team. The named individual who carries the liability.
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