Legal Services

Former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner is facing fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq War veterans.

https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/20233355.ex-human-rights-lawyer-phil-shiner-facing-fraud-charges-iraq-war-claims/?ref=twtrec

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) fining powers should go “considerably beyond” the proposed increase to £25,000, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has told the Lord Chancellor.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-should-be-able-to-fine-much-more-than-25000-lsb-tells-raab

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has expressed “very significant concerns” about the professional ethics of in-house and commercial lawyers in the wake of a series of incidents which raised “difficult ethical questions”, including the Post Office scandal.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/oversight-regulator-very-concerned-about-ethics-of-commercial-lawyers

A malicious cyber-attack on the Bar Standards Board (BSB) a month ago – for the fourth time in a year – has proved “catastrophic” for the regulator, a meeting of its governing board heard yesterday.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/long-haul-to-recover-bsb-counts-cost-of-cyber-attack

https://www.business-live.co.uk/professional-services/leicester-lawyer-facing-tribunal-over-23745300

The High Court has thrown out as an abuse of process an application for summary judgment brought by victims of a solicitor’s fraud suing his firm’s insurer for £6m.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/court-rejects-summary-judgment-bid-in-6m-solicitor-fraud-case

The High Court has rejected an appeal from a barrister disbarred after a council tax conviction and submission of dishonest evidence to a Crown Court.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/barrister-with-council-tax-conviction-fails-in-disbarment-appeal

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has said it expects to see “a sense of pace and urgency” from regulators in improving the flow of information to consumers to help them choose a lawyer.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lsb-calls-for-urgency-in-improving-consumer-information

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has started visiting law firms named in Parliament amid concerns about their work for Russian oligarchs, it has emerged.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/regulator-probes-law-firms-accused-in-parliament-over-oligarch-work

The SRA Compensation Fund paid out £27m to the victims of solicitors’ dishonesty in its last financial year, an increase of 162% on the previous 12 months.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/fund-pays-out-27m-to-victims-of-dishonest-solicitors