News archive
2024
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– December
(72)
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Legal Futures
- SFO charges two Axiom Ince partners and three senior executives
- Succession (Season 5) – Santa looks to the future
- Zahawi solicitor fined £50,000 for trying to stop email’s publication
- Share payout for staff as national firm takes private equity cash
- SRA opens dozens of investigations into volume litigation firms
- CAT finds against consumers in first opt-out action to reach trial
- SRA puts restrictions on another ex-Axiom Ince employee
- Key rulings and FCA announcement keep motor finance lawyers busy
- Divorces wrongly allowed to proceed due to courts’ IT error “not void”
- CJEU: Member states can block external investment in law firms
- High Court refers barrister to BSB for “abusive” judicial review
- SRA issues highest fine to date amidst AML breaches blitz
- SRA warns law firms about misleading use of ‘no win, no fee’
- Law firm fights off summary judgment in property fraud claim
- Solicitor MI5 accused of being Chinese agent loses legal challenge
- Law firm found negligent over property development agreements
- Young solicitor who misled clients over LPAs is struck off
- Smaller law firms should “compromise profits today” to invest in tech
- Tribunal clears council solicitor who amended witness statement
- Wills and probate market expands despite number of firms falling
- Government to increase medical report fees – at some point in 2025
- Little sign of slowdown in solicitor-client costs disputes
- Two-year suspension for City partner who groped associate
- Lawyer executors “could do more” about risk of conflicts in probate
- Solicitors over-reliant on their COLPs, says SRA
- Immigration adviser handed suspended jail sentence
- The COLP and management 12 days of Christmas checklist
- BSB “not fit for purpose”, says Proudman after tribunal dismisses case
- Law firm’s AI agent supporting junior paralegals
- Judge castigates expert who was “prepared to mislead the court”
- Hospital order for man who planned terrorist attack on law firm
- Supreme Court to hear motor finance appeal by Easter 2025
- “A modern-day traitor” – politicians’ disgust at failure to jail Shiner
- AI can close the justice gap for people, says LawtechUK head
- Medico-legal market consolidating and growing “more strongly”
- CA to consider whether Stonewall “induced” chambers’ discrimination
- “Ruined” Shiner handed suspended jail sentence for legal aid fraud
- Law firm hits back over “inaccurate” BBC accusations of LPA misuse
- Masked knifeman “planned to take a hostage” at law firm
- Bar Council condemns KC found guilty of sexual misconduct
- Solicitor who benefited from will rebuked over conflict
- Barrister apprenticeships to go live next year
- UK legal services exports soar 14% to new high
- Lady Chief Justice urges CILEX lawyers to seek judicial roles
- The next wave of AI: what’s really coming in 2025
- Solicitor reprimanded for insurance error but SRA sees costs halved
- Solicitor jailed with mother for stalking neighbours
- Innovative law group looks to upset competition with AI pricing
- Insurers “expected bigger increase” in whiplash tariff
- The rise of zero-click searches: how to ensure your content is seen
- Solicitor to pay costs after being summonsed over will drafting
- LeO: Lawyers show “no empathy” towards complaining clients
- Extinction Rebellion protestors storm City law firm’s office
- LSB seeks 14% budget hike as it targets stronger regulator oversight
- Ethnic income and pupillage gap at Bar laid bare
- PI lawyer brought “fundamentally dishonest” claims – and lied on CV
- Solicitor blasts “greedy” funder for Mastercard settlement opposition
- Veteran solicitor struck off for forging client’s signature
- Court backs InjuryLawyers4U in dispute with founder law firms
- Pioneering collective action settles subject to tribunal approval
- AI “could amplify gender biases in legal profession”
- Clients “overwhelmingly positive” about impact of legal aid
- The FCA is trying to get to grips with motor finance mis-selling
- Tribunal clears drink-drive solicitor of misleading firm
- Broadfield UK goes live as founder of international law firm
- Global accountancy network makes fifth UK law firm investment
- “Blurred distinctions” as legal aid solicitors do their own advocacy
- Government “at risk of breaching duty” to provide access to justice
- Tribunal revokes SRA rebuke of solicitor over client complaint
- High public confidence in barristers falters among ethnic minorities
- SRA “unlikely to take action” on solicitors who refuse fossil fuel work
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