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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
A solicitor whose incompetence enabled the transfer of an elderly man’s property to fraudsters for no consideration has been struck off.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-struck-off-for-single-incident-of-manifest-incompetence
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is now investigating 29 cases where law firms might be involved in SLAPPs, it revealed yesterday as it issued a warning notice over such abusive litigation.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/warning-for-profession-and-help-for-public-sra-steps-up-slapps-pressure
A solicitor has been jailed for 12 years for fraud by abuse of a position of trust following a private prosecution brought by his former client.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-jailed-for-12-years-for-castle-fraud-after-private-prosecution
A very experienced solicitor who showed a “complete blind spot” with regard to his obligations to ‘know your client’ and recognise the risks of conveyancing fraud has been suspended for a year.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitors-blind-spot-led-to-vulnerable-client-being-defrauded
It is “highly over-optimistic” to think the Legal Services Act will be reformed or replaced by the government in the next couple of years, the chief executive of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has warned.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/legal-services-act-with-us-for-one-or-two-decades-lsb-chief-says
An “old school” solicitor in his late 70s who overcharged three estates and a trust by nearly £500,000 to provide cash flow for his firm has been struck off.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/old-school-solicitor-used-500000-of-client-money-to-prop-up-firm
Property firms such as conveyancers and estate agents often rely on their people to complete AML checks, where staff manually verify identity documents.
https://propertyindustryeye.com/118416-2/
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