Compliance & Regulation

The ICO has executed search warrants across the UK as part of investigations into companies sending millions of text messages about motor finance claims.

A solicitor who continued to act for both executors of an estate after a dispute arose between them has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A solicitor who misled his regulator during an investigation into his “manifestly incompetent conduct” has been struck off.

The first solicitor prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office for ‘tipping off’ a client about a money laundering investigation has failed in his appeal against conviction.

The Legal Ombudsman has reported a 41% increase in the number of complaints about conveyancing, driven by delays, poor communication and post-completion problems.

Legal regulators have accepted the Legal Services Board’s finding that they missed opportunities to address the issues that came to a head in the Mazur case.

Legal regulators missed opportunities over the years to “clarify and address” the issues that came to a head in the Mazur case, the Legal Services Board said yesterday.

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.