Latest news

The number of reports to the BSB about barristers’ use of social media has unexpectedly fallen but an increasing proportion relate to “controversial social and political issues”.

The Bar Standards Board’s controversial proposal for new equality rules will not affect the cab-rank rule and will not lead to quotas, its director general said yesterday.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s needs to rethink the “potentially unlawful, confusing and flawed” proposals to update its fining regime, the Law Society said yesterday.

The Court of Appeal yesterday closed off claimant solicitors’ hopes of reopening payment protection insurance claims which they allege were undersettled.

A solicitor who held all the compliance roles at an alternative business structure owned by a non-lawyer has been rebuked for multiple failures under his watch.

The largest family law firm in the country, Stowe Family Law, has been sold by its private equity owner to a global investment giant entering the legal market for the first time.

A former credit control manager at a major London chambers has admitted to stealing £2.75m from the set over the past five years, it emerged in the High Court yesterday.

Co-op Legal Services is the fastest-growing part of the wider Co-operative Group, with revenue up 35% in the first half of 2024, results published yesterday revealed.

Former justice minister Lord Wolfson KC has joined the voices opposing the Bar Standards Board’s plan to impose a new positive duty on barristers to act in a way that “advances” EDI.

A solicitor who sent overly aggressive and legally inaccurate letters before action as part of a campaign against the Covid vaccine has been fined £15,000.