The availability of more online information about solicitors and law firms is already making a difference as people start use it to help with decisions about accessing legal services, a review of Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) transparency reform as found.

Approaching one year on since the SRA’s new transparency rules came into full effect, independent research commissioned by the regulator has also found that most firms surveyed said they were publishing the necessary price and service information.

Crucially only 10 percent of consumers now say, with access to information on price, that they believe instru...