Compliance & Regulation

A Scottish solicitor who groped a colleague while working in the City at Dentons has had controls placed on his future employment in the sector.

The Legal Services Board is on the hunt for a new chief executive after Matthew Hill announced that he would be stepping down at the end of March 2024.

The barrister who gave a Nazi salute to magistrates during proceedings did not also goose-step or say “Sieg Heil”, despite evidence suggesting he did, a tribunal has found.

The pass rate for legal practice course students fell to below 50% in the first year of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, new figures have shown.

The SRA has handed out a £10,000 fine – reduced from £16,000 due to co-operation – to a solicitor convicted of drink driving, an unusually high figure for the offence.

Leading City firm Clyde & Co has been fined £500,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal – equalling the highest amount ever – for money laundering offences.

A law firm in the North-East has become the first to receive a fixed penalty fine for not updating the Solicitors Regulation Authority on information about a compliance officer.

CILEX has reported strong support from members, employers and consumers for its plans to change regulator to the SRA and introduce new professional titles.

The Legal Services Consumer Panel has put pressure on the Legal Ombudsman to move more quickly towards publishing its decisions in full.

The new chair of the Bar Council has pushed back at the idea floated by the Bar Standards Board that chambers could merge to make regulatory compliance easier.