Compliance & Regulation

Barrister-led legal compliance business Briefed is to merge with a firm of recruitment consultants, following its acquisition by private equity firm Omni Partners.

A solicitor involved in advance fee frauds has been suspended for a year on the basis that it was mainly the fault of a convicted fraudster he worked with.

A family law specialist convicted of sending a malicious communication to his ex-partner has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A junior solicitor who failed to tell her law firm or client that its defence and counterclaim in a personal injury matter had been struck out has been suspended for 12 months.

A solicitor who appeared on an antisemitic television programme on the Iranian state-owned TV channel has been fined for comments he made about London law firm Mishcon de Reya.

A law student who called England footballer Bukayo Saka a ‘monkey’ in an online rant was warned last week that he could go to jail.

The secrecy of proceedings at the Bar disciplinary tribunal is under scrutiny in two high-profile cases where one barrister wants privacy and the other more openness.

The law firm that took on SSB Law’s cavity wall insulation cases after it went bust is exiting the field and passing the files on again to Hugh James.

The three solicitors whose firms were shut down last year after being named in a Daily Mail undercover investigation are to face the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

More high-profile figures have expressed their concern at the Bar Standards Board’s plan to impose a new positive duty on barristers to act in a way that “advances” equality, diversity and inclusion.