Legal Services

The highly contentious Leigh Day disciplinary case has come to an end with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) paying the firm £1m in costs after the regulator’s unsuccessful appeal.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-pays-leigh-day-1m-in-costs-to-end-disciplinary-case

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is “not sufficiently transparent” in explaining its decisions at board level, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has said.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-not-sufficiently-transparent-in-explaining-decisions

A solicitor who was the ‘go to’ lawyer for a gang of criminals because he would not ask too many questions about where their money came from has been jailed for seven years.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/jail-for-solicitor-who-wouldnt-ask-too-many-questions

A solicitor who took £100,000 from a fine wine scam on investors has been ordered to pay back less than a quarter of the sum or face more jail time.

The practice of making fraudulent legal aid claims was “endemic” at Blavo & Co, which at its height was one of the largest legal aid firms in the country, the High Court has found.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/blavo-told-repay-22m-over-endemic-legal-aid-fraud

Anonymous author explains why legal aid is so vital and how cuts threaten its future

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/dec/27/secret-barrister-legal-aid-the-rule-law-cuts

Personal injury law firms are among those most at risk of fines under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), while data subject access requests are increasingly being used as a litigation tactic, it has emerged.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/gdpr-causing-problems-for-firms-of-all-sizes

An experienced solicitor-advocate has been struck off for misleading a judge that she was a barrister and then misleading the solicitors on the other side who questioned her behaviour.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-led-judge-to-believe-she-was-a-barrister

Co Down solicitor Elaine Mary Early has been spared jail after admitting a series of fraud and money-laundering offences linked to client accounts, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

https://www.irishlegal.com/article/co-down-solicitor-avoids-jail-after-admitting-fraud-and-money-laundering

The Law Society is undergoing its latest internal reorganisation, with the aim of creating “the Future Law Society” by 2022, it has emerged.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/latest-reorganisation-seeks-to-build-future-law-society