Legal Services

A solicitor who failed to pass on to a client the £132,000 due to her from her divorce settlement – money the profession has now had to stump up – has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/family/solicitor-ghosted-client-and-sra-after-receiving-divorce-settlement

A solicitor who “shattered” public trust in the profession by making a fake personal injury (PI) claim through the law firm where he worked has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/strike-off-for-solicitor-whose-fake-pi-claim-shattered-public-trust

A veteran solicitor who signed but then kept 743 cheques worth £233,000 in a filing cabinet in his office, rather than using them to pay disbursements and other liabilities, has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-hid-743-cheques-worth-233000-in-filing-cabinet

Solicitors could improve their productivity by using distributed ledger technology (DLT) but need to take care if a client wants to pay by cryptocurrency, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has cautioned.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/crypto-world-opens-up-opportunities-for-solicitors-says-sra

A fee-earner who misappropriated at least £338,000 from her firm by making fraudulent land tax claims has been banned from the profession.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/conveyancing-fee-earner-banned-over-338000-tax-scam

Solicitors and their regulator have found themselves in the crosshairs of MPs and peers this week over strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) and economic crime.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/parliament-ratchets-up-pressure-on-sra-and-solicitors

THREE former lawyers and two other men who masterminded a £1.48million bank and property money-laundering operation have been jailed for a total of 30 years and four months.

The new chair of the Bar Council has called on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to review the Legal Services Board (LSB), prompting a tart response from the oversight regulator.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/new-bar-chair-calls-on-ministry-of-justice-to-review-lsb

A reality TV star has been found fundamentally dishonest in bringing a personal injury claim that was undermined by what he put up on social media from Ibiza in the wake of his accident.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/reality-tv-star-found-fundamentally-dishonest-in-pi-claim

A barrister whose applications for pupillage at one chambers and then tenancy at another were based on a false CV has been disbarred – more than a decade after he first used it.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/barrister-who-falsified-cv-to-get-pupillage-and-tenancy-disbarred-years-later