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A solicitor who paid away proceeds of a property sale in breach of an undertaking and then loaned the client the money to make up the shortfall, has been fined for misconduct.

Poor-quality immigration legal aid work is having “devastating consequences” for clients and better support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority would help, a report has found.

We talk to Will Evans, a managing director at Arrowpoint Advisory, about how private equity activity in the legal market has sped up in recent months and looks set to continue.

Most sanctions non-compliance by UK legal services providers is due to breaches of Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation licence conditions, it has revealed.

A “logjam” of old cases at the High Court, with more than a quarter of cases taking up to three years to resolve, could be the reason for a “slight drop-off” in new actions last year.

CILEx Regulation has launched plans for chartered legal executives to obtain standalone rights to conduct litigation without having to seek rights of audience at the same time.

Shine Lawyers, the Australian-listed personal injury and class action law firm, has become what is thought to be the first foreign firm to obtain an ABS licence in the USA.

An assistant solicitor whose failure to comply with an undertaking in a property transaction cost his firm’s insurer £440,000 has been fined £5,500.

Efforts by the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure it allocates work more equitably between the sexes are slowly bearing fruit, a new analysis has shown.

A chartered legal executive who fabricated court pleadings, expert reports and letters from third parties has been disqualified from working for solicitors’ firms.