Compliance & Regulation

Nearly half of criminal law solicitors-advocates lack proper learning and development plans, research by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has indicated.

A solicitor who used her positions as head of corporate services at a council and chair of trustees at a cancer charity to defraud both of them by paying money to a fake employee has been struck off.

The woman who first broke a Harvey Weinstein non-disclosure agreement has strongly criticised the Bar Council for dismissing the growing evidence of NDA abuse.

A solicitor was pressured by his boss to give another law firm buying property searches procured for a previous buyer his personal bank account details for the £100 it was paying.

There is “clear scope” for the legal regulators to “pool their resources and work together” on research and policy relating to consumers, a report has found.

The first teenagers to take the legal services T-Level, a new vocational alternative to A-Levels, are to start courses this month at half a dozen schools and colleges.

Would-be students on last year’s worst performing Bar training course cannot start it this month after the Bar Standards Board intervened.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been slapped with a £75,000 costs order after making an “essential mistake of law” in a failed prosecution of a solicitor.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority does not expect acting as regulator for CILEX to “affect the identity of the solicitors’ profession or the way it is regulated”.

A group of general counsel have called on the Financial Reporting Council to set out the role in the UK Corporate Governance Code and suggested how it could be done.