Legal Services

A leading medical negligence solicitor has admitted stealing £711,000 from vulnerable clients after representing them in multi-million pound litigation claims against the NHS.

https://www.itv.com/news/border/2018-11-07/lawyer-admits-stealing-711-000-from-disabled-clients/

Here are five ways that the courts are addressing the imbalance that exists between victims and criminals who seek to hide behind a veil of anonymity in this digital age.

https://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Litigation/United-Kingdom/RPC/Five-ways-civil-courts-are-fighting-back-against-cybercrime

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has urged the government not to agree to the mutual recognition of other countries’ legal qualifications in post-Brexit trade deals.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-warns-against-mutual-recognition-in-brexit-trade-deals

Lawyers are both “key facilitators” of serious and organised crime, and an “important part” of the response to it, the government said yesterday.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyers-in-firing-line-of-home-offices-serious-crime-strategy

A solicitor jailed for five years for defrauding clients of over £144,000 has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-who-defrauded-clients-of-144000-is-struck-off

The legal profession will have to develop “cyber ethics” to cope with the very different issues that the growing use of technology is having on the practice of law, a leading academic has suggested.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/new-tech-demands-code-of-cyber-ethics-for-lawyers

A partner who abused his position of trust “in the most despicable way”, raising false bills and using client money to “prop up” his law firm, has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/despicable-partner-used-client-money-to-prop-up-firm

The outgoing head of the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice has said disclosure failings remain the "biggest single cause of miscarriages of justice" and called for a "targeted review" into existing convictions.

http://www.cityam.com/265402/disclosure-failings-biggest-single-cause-miscarriages

He is alleged to have submitted fraudulent legal aid claim forms for his personal benefit while working as a sole practitioner

https://www.irishlegal.com/article/derry-solicitor-denies-legal-aid-fraud-charges-in-court

A solicitor whose conduct “was about as dishonest as it could get” – and left the profession to pick up a £175,000 bill to compensate a vulnerable client he had “preyed on” – has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-about-as-dishonest-as-it-could-get