The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) claimed that larger law firms used tactics such as making freedom of information requests or complaining about staff  'to deflect resources' or stop regulators from taking action. It said that, whilst these were familiar tactics in the defence of white-collar enforcement action, they needed to be noted 'because of the resource implications, including the need not to be intimidated by respondents sometimes with more access to resource than the SRA, and the pressure upon staff.' They added that Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal cases were being expensively fought and funded by insurers.