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Most Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All these have been raised time and again on these pages over the past two or three years.

In September 2020, the judgment in PLK and Others was published and the profession welcomed the notion that hourly rates applied to Court of Protection work were out of date and it was deemed reasonable for uplifts of up to 20% to be applied to the guideline hourly rates (GHR).

The growth of increasingly sophisticated software for lawyers is, perhaps inadvertently, giving rise to new ethical problems for the legal profession. As Richard Burnham, co-author of So You Think You’re An Ethical Solicitor?

Mena Ruparel, co-author of our forthcoming book So You Think You’re an Ethical Solicitor: The new SRA standradsa and regulations in action, has launched a new podcast – Unethical Stories – in which she speaks to lawyers about daily ethical decision-making in practice.

The concept of dishonesty within the legal profession has always struck me as particularly inflexible. This is not without good reason, as it is a foundation of our profession that no solicitor should ever act dishonestly.