Compliance & Regulation

A solicitor struck off in 2019 after being recorded by an undercover reporter advising on a sham marriage has failed in a bid to return to the profession.

A veteran solicitor who let his firm’s accounts fall into chaos, causing the SRA Compensation Fund to pay out £400,000 to his former clients, has been suspended from practice.

A law firm that did not have the processes in place to cope with acting for a politically exposed person on multiple property transactions has been fined £16,100.

A registered foreign lawyer who used misleading AI-generated quotes and citations in defending a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal case against him has been struck off.

The Legal Services Board is to step up its demands of reform at the SRA in the wake of the review that exposed major failures in its supervision of PM Law.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority had the information and opportunities it needed to take action on the PM Law Group long before it collapsed, a review has concluded.

A solicitor rebuked by the SRA for “substantial and unexplained delay” in the administration of an estate has failed in an appeal to the SDT.

The government needs to “look again” at the enforcement powers of the SRA to ensure it can deal with “lawyers who let down the reputation of the profession”, a minister said this week.

Plans by the Legal Ombudsman for big rises in the case fees it charges law firms risk creating the impression that they are “being used as a punitive tool”.

The Bar Standards Board’s independent reviewer has upheld its decision to reject the Good Law Project’s complaint against a barrister over her social media posts about a trans woman.