Compliance & Regulation

Solicitors should get training in “soft skills/empathy” as part of their continuing professional development, research for the Legal Services Board has suggested.

The Bar Standards Board has dropped a case study from its revised social media guidance concerning gender-critical views after it was accused of promoting a ‘gender ideology’.

A former trainee in the London office of a US law firm has been cleared of telling partners he had not failed any legal practice course examinations, when in fact he had.

The Legal Services Board has “no role” in “attempting to control or regulate lawyers involved in assisting clients in the lawful use of NDAs”, the Bar Council has said.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has shut down three of the law firms named in a Daily Mail undercover investigation last week after the newspaper provided recordings and transcripts.

A male barrister who told one pupil that she needed to have sex with senior members of the Bar to be successful and another that she was frigid has been disbarred.

A chambers set up as a company to shake up the Bar has now obtained an alternative business structure nilicence after three years of strong growth.

The High Court has removed a nine-year anonymity order in favour of a solicitor, meaning that the Solicitors Regulation Authority can now investigate his misconduct in later costs proceedings.

The Lord Chancellor has urged the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to take more action over abuse of the immigration system by solicitors.

The Court of Appeal has imposed a three-year general civil restraint order on a struck-off solicitor who has been issuing claims against the Solicitors Regulation Authority among others.