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A “significant and sustained increase” in the number of reports about solicitor misconduct is fuelling the SRA’s plans for an £11m increase in its budget to £168m.

A law firm that paid out £750,000 to a buyer client over an error on a property transaction has taken assignment of its claim against the seller.

At least half of the assessments of law students at University College London must now be in a form that “reliably safeguard against the use” of GenAI, it has decided.

The Bar Standards Board is not improving its performance with “sufficient urgency or pace”, the oversight regulator has concluded.

A deputy district judge and leading family law solicitor has condemned what he called the “continued saga” of “excessive costs” charged by family lawyers.

Listed business NAHL issued bullish predictions for its future yesterday after a “challenging year” that saw falls in revenue and the number of personal injury claims generated.

The Times newspaper has apologised to class action law firm Pogust Goodhead and agreed to pay damages for a defamatory claim that it was improperly pressuring clients.

The revised whiplash tariff received its final parliamentary approval this week, although the Conservatives warned the government that the policy “cannot be left to run on autopilot”.

The High Court has ordered that a barrister and the solicitors who instructed her be referred to their regulators after providing five fake case citations in their pleadings.

A conveyancer has described how she refused to give in to a scammer who threatened to post more fake one-star reviews of her law firm unless she gave him her phone number.