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Conveyancers warned over amending contracts ahead of SDLT deadline

21 March 2025

Conveyancers have been warned over efforts to amend agreed conditions of sale to take into account the possibility of not completing before SDLT changes.


MR: “Very disappointing” end to court modernisation programme

21 March 2025

The court modernisation project ends this month with the “very disappointing” outcome of only 23% of civil cases being digital end to end, the Master of the Rolls told MPs this week.


SRA used “prejudicial hearsay evidence” in failed prosecution

20 March 2025

The SRA relied on complaints by anonymous people and “a significant amount of prejudicial hearsay evidence” to support a failed prosecution against two high-profile solicitors.


City giant fined £465k for sanctions breach by Russian arm

20 March 2025

The Russian arm of top City firm Herbert Smith Freehills has been fined £465,000 for breaching UK financial sanctions imposed on Russia.


Sidhu disbarred and attacked for “abusing power to perpetrate abuse”

20 March 2025

The case of Jo Sidhu KC – who was disbarred yesterday – “exposes the failure of the current systems to effectively prevent sexual misconduct at the Bar”, Harriet Harman KC said yesterday.


Beringer: No rules force law firms to take on questionable clients

20 March 2025

There are no rules that require law firms to take on clients outside of criminal work and so they need to be willing to justify their choices publicly, the former senior partner of Allen & Overy said this week.


KC removed from panel hearing challenge to Scottish Bar rules

20 March 2025

A Scottish silk has been removed from a Competition Appeal Tribunal panel set to hear a challenge to the rules of the Faculty of Advocates, the Scottish Bar.


Anti-corruption champion calls for offence targeting lawyer enablers

19 March 2025

The Prime Minister’s anti-corruption champion last night called for a new criminal offence that would see lawyers prosecuted for failing to prevent money laundering and economic crime.


Top family firm “would be prejudiced” by split trial in negligence claim

19 March 2025

Top family law firm Payne Hicks Beach would be prejudiced by a split trial in the negligence action brought by the woman who secured the UK’s largest ever divorce award, the High Court has ruled.


City solicitor suspended from practice for stalking conviction

19 March 2025

A City solicitor found guilty of a low-level offence of stalking his ex-girlfriend has been suspended from the profession for six months.

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