Compliance & Regulation

A Cardiff law firm criticised for offering to advise people on challenging their solicitors’ fees off the back of the Mazur ruling has removed its promotion of the service.

The pass-rate for the first part of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam has fallen to an all-time low, new figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority have shown.

Four regulators have joined forces to tackle misleading advertising and inadequate information provided by some law firms and CMCs working on motor finance claims.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been ordered to pay a woman £27,000 in costs after its decision to ban her from working for law firms was quashed.

A barrister who made inappropriate comments to probation staff in a case where he was instructed by the Probation Service has been reprimanded.

The Legal Services Board is convening a meeting of the frontline regulators next week to discuss the continuing fall-out from the Mazur ruling, Legal Futures can reveal.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has rejected an appeal from a legal assistant banned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority from working for law firms.

The First-tier Tribunal has rejected an appeal by a solicitor who failed the exam to become an immigration law adviser and said he should not have had to take it in the first place.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has broken its silence on the Mazur case to stress that it has not changed the existing legal position.

Lawyers have been questioning whether the High Court was right in its contentious ruling in Mazur on the conduct of litigation, with the CPR key in the debate.