Compliance & Regulation

A solicitor suspended indefinitely in 2012 for failing to produce accounts after his law firm closed can return to the roll, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has decided.

Licensed conveyancers are targeting schools in an effort to improve recruitment and raise the profile of the profession.

MPs whose constituents have been badly affected by the collapse of SSB Law have pledged to lobby the new government to take action against lawyers and others.

The Republic of Ireland has introduced ‘legal partnerships’, allowing barristers to be partners with solicitors in law firms for the first time and to form partnerships with other barristers.

The two partners of a firm whose purpose is to serve the non-legal business interests of one of them have been fined for multiple rule breaches, including using client account as a banking facility.

A solicitor who signed an inaccurate declaration that triggered the release of a £1m Covid loan to a client, has been fined £15,000.

Bullying and harassment is not limited to the Bar and “disruptive action” may be needed to create a “fair, healthy, diverse and inclusive legal profession”, the Legal Services Board has warned.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has stressed the importance of voluntarily disclosing breaches of the Russia sanctions following the first fine handed out under the regime.

A senior partner who told a newly qualified solicitor to lie in an email to a client has been suspended from practice for nine months.

A law firm that was hacked and had sensitive client data published on the dark web has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office.