News archive
2024
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– July
(69)
- Boss struck off over pension cash misuse – but fellow partners cleared
- £350m sale of PI group in the offing as turnover and profit soar
- Time to reset legal regulation and ethics, says consumer panel head
- Fine and reprimands for barrister over conduct as law firm owner
- Keeping the conversation going beyond Pride Month
- Insurers win costs orders against Anexo over credit hire
- Solicitor used client money to keep PI firm afloat
- CLC ups financial pressure on firms to deal with complaints
- Number of Bar students continues to grow
- Law firm targets acquisitions after taking private equity backing
- Welsh chambers breaks ground with first ICO legal services certification
- Cheers for what’s in King’s Speech, boos for what’s not
- CILEX set to make final decision on SRA switch in October
- Lack of trust preventing consumers from complaining to law firms
- UN rapporteurs “seriously concerned” about online attacks on barrister
- Senior associate who exposed clients to “unknown risks” struck off
- “Generational shift in priorities” between aspiring and established lawyers
- Partner “deliberately misled” client over PI claim she never issued
- History made as Mahmood is sworn in as Lord Chancellor
- Law firm fined £11,000 for overcharging DBA clients
- The Solicitor’s Charity refers growing numbers for mental health support
- Third-party managed accounts: Your key questions answered
- Firm forced to take action against client’s ex-husband over email error
- Rule committee silence points to another fixed costs delay
- Sustained recovery of PI market “a long way off”
- SRA to appeal decision to clear Dentons over AML breaches
- Understanding vicarious trauma in the legal workplace
- Firm unfairly dismissed departing solicitor over Facebook row
- Police station rep referred to transgender detainee as “thing”
- Being a solicitor or ethnic minority halves odds of becoming a judge
- BSB slaps down Bar Council over diversity and equality work
- Law firms need to act over new duty to prevent sexual harassment
- GLO would add “unnecessary cost and expense” to student Covid claims
- Law Society sets out TA6 consultation plan as SGM looms
- Pupil barrister fined for f-word outbursts during online exam
- Trainee “bullied and unsupervised” in doing work of qualified lawyers
- Nursing regulator review finds in-house lawyers split over safeguarding
- £36k fine for law firm which let millions pass through client account
- What is a bill? Costs lawyers urge regime reform
- Solicitor leaves roll after misusing dormant client money
- Call to charge lawyers £450 to make complaint to FOS
- Listed law firm plans to double in size as it hits £150m revenue
- Costs lawyers call for guidelines rates and judiciary recognition
- Does your integrity extend far enough?
- Judges slash “absurd” £343m budget for first part of diesel cars claim
- Barrister who bought drugs from criminal clients disbarred
- Conveyancers “overlooking post-completion work” after taking fee
- Tribunal makes protective awards in favour of SSB staff
- “Not just banter” – secretary wins sexual harassment claim against law firm
- First SDT appearance for Zahawi lawyer accused of SLAPP
- Another volume consumer claims firm goes down owing £37m
- Counsel should not have attacked solicitor’s integrity, says judge
- Law firm turns four-day week pilot into permanent fixture
- High Court dismisses fundamentally dishonest £6.4m PI claim
- SRA “should be bolder” on third-party managed accounts
- Barrister GC: Why can’t I sign off trainee solicitors’ work experience?
- Litigation funder stymied as divorcing couple drop proceedings
- SRA “must improve authorisation of law firms” in wake of Axiom Ince
- Firm’s £3m of invoices face assessment after losing ‘statute bill’ fight
- Judge rejects defendant’s request to pay law firm’s £2m costs
- SRA agrees to take over regulation of CILEX members
- Niche advice law firm expands into litigation funding agreements
- Partner underperformance hitting many law firms’ profitability
- Ex-solicitor struck off 24 years ago fails in bid to return to roll
- Enhancing wellbeing: Strategies for a balanced work-life
- Law firm fines should be a minimum of £5k, says SRA
- Five-year suspension for solicitor – for practising while suspended
- Water companies win first stage of search providers’ overcharging claim
- SRA “has not justified” huge compensation fund levy rises
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