Compliance & Regulation

The Scottish government has chosen the least radical option for regulatory reform of the legal profession, rejecting the ideas of either a single or an oversight regulator.

A solicitor who strung along two clients for several years that he had applied for their indefinite leave to remain in the UK when he had not has been struck off.

A registered foreign lawyer has been suspended for 18 months after being duped to front a law firm where likely fraudulent conveyancing transactions took place behind his back.

Slater & Gordon has accepted a fine of nearly £82,000 for historic shortcomings in the legal services business it acquired from Quindell.

The pupil barrister who passed off other people’s work as his own on three occasions avoided disbarment because he was suffering from a serious mental illness exacerbated by lockdown.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to take a “more robust approach” to enforcing its transparency rules after its latest work indicated widespread non-compliance.

SRA plans to replace the Solicitors Indemnity Fund with an in-house solution have been backed by the Law Society but opposed by the ‘Joint V’ of the major local law societies.

It puts the national body at odds with the ‘Joint V’ of major local law societies

Two more firms in the Metamorph Law group – including the one to which the caseloads of several others were being transferred – were shut down today.

A pupil barrister who passed off other people’s work as his own and lied about it to the head of his chambers’ pupillage committee has been told he cannot qualify for at least three years.

A solicitor “tested the ethical standards” of the profession by seeking a loan from a client to pay school fees without advising him to seek independent advice, the SDT has found.