Compliance & Regulation

A solicitor who told clients to pay fees into his personal bank account, in some cases for work that was never done, has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

Individual solicitors and their firms will be paying an extra £13.2m to be regulated and represented in the coming year, the Legal Services Board has confirmed.

A partner lied to the litigation friend and mother of a medical negligence victim, telling her repeatedly over two and a half years that a pre-action protocol letter had been sent when it had not.

A solicitor who acted for both sides in the transfer of five properties for nil value has been hit with a £12,000 fine by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A solicitor is set to face a disciplinary tribunal for aggressively threatening GPs with legal action if the doctor did not provide a Covid vaccination exemption for their client.

Law firm cultures where solicitors are able to admit and learn from mistakes are central to ensuring adherence to professional ethics, the president of the Law Society said yesterday.

A personal injury firm which did not deal directly with clients referred by a claims management company over six years has been fined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A claim seeking the return of a £7.5m success fee earned by a law firm for its role in a giant transaction is covered by its professional indemnity insurance, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The Bar Council is to meet non-disclosure agreement pressure group Can’t Buy My Silence in the wake of its criticism of the barrister body’s stance.

Nearly half of criminal law solicitors-advocates lack proper learning and development plans, research by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has indicated.

A solicitor who used her positions as head of corporate services at a council and chair of trustees at a cancer charity to defraud both of them by paying money to a fake employee has been struck off.

The woman who first broke a Harvey Weinstein non-disclosure agreement has strongly criticised the Bar Council for dismissing the growing evidence of NDA abuse.

A solicitor was pressured by his boss to give another law firm buying property searches procured for a previous buyer his personal bank account details for the £100 it was paying.

There is “clear scope” for the legal regulators to “pool their resources and work together” on research and policy relating to consumers, a report has found.

The first teenagers to take the legal services T-Level, a new vocational alternative to A-Levels, are to start courses this month at half a dozen schools and colleges.