Solicitor in GB-SCT
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The closest thing in the index to the shape this lab is after, built without any of the machinery. A Scottish solicitor carries a society ID card and a five-digit solicitor number, and anyone, organisation or member of the public, can put that number into a status check and be told whether the person is currently entitled to practise. Stop practising and the card must go back and the check turns to not entitled to practise, so revocation actually surfaces. What it lacks is everything that would make the answer portable: no file, no export, a bot challenge on the search, and a result you cannot keep, show to a third party, or verify a week later.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | No | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | No | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Give every licence a stable address
The register exists but lives behind a search form, so there is nothing to link to, nothing to archive and nothing to attest against. A permanent address per licence costs little and moves this row to grade C on its own.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.