Compliance & Regulation

A prospective trainee solicitor who forged a client’s signature on a document sent to the Home Office and faked an email to mislead her firm has been barred from the profession.

The collapse of Axiom Ince is set to cost the solicitors’ profession £39m in payouts from the SRA Compensation Fund, most of which have now been made, it has emerged.

The High Court has referred a barrister and his chambers to the Bar Standards Board over their involvement in litigation run by a legal consultant it employs.

A consultant solicitor who carried out unauthorised work for a man facing serious drug offences, and then asked to be paid in cash, has been struck off.

A non-practising solicitor who sent a misleading email “designed to influence and alarm” the two sons of a mentally ill woman has been struck off.

A duty solicitor in his 80s who was banned from Coventry Police Station after making eccentric comments to two young female officers has been cleared of misconduct.

The Court of Appeal has strongly condemned ‘privilege hunting’ – illicit methods to obtain information from litigation opponents – in a case where a law firm partner was successfully duped.

A judge has expressed deep concern about how an East London law firm has run immigration cases, with multiple clients relying on materially similar documents.

The FCA has spotted 170 misleading car finance adverts as part of the on-going campaign against “poor practices” by CMCs and law firms.

The High Court has thrown out a solicitor’s appeal against a decision of the SDT because she failed to provide grounds for more than four months after filing it.