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In-house solicitors have been pressured to misuse legal professional privilege as a way to suppress the proper disclosure of information, the SRA has said.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority needs greater fining powers to sanction solicitors involved in SLAPPs, the House of Commons was told yesterday.

A solicitor who sued a former client over three reviews on her firm’s Google Business profile failed to prove he actually posted them, a judge has ruled.

Lawyers and training providers have expressed alarm at the prospect of the government removing funding for level 7 apprenticeships, like the solicitor offering.

The High Court has upheld a decision to disbar a barrister who continued to hold himself out as one while suspended from practice.

Consumers are more comfortable with the idea of their money being held in third-party managed accounts than solicitors’ client accounts, research has suggested.

Two leading class action law firms have obtained a group litigation order to open up a new front against a motor manufacturer for something other than emissions defeat devices.

A solicitor prevented from being a law firm owner, partner or compliance officer for the last seven years has successfully applied to have the conditions on her practising certificate removed.

Proposed new guidance on how the legal regulators should meet their new statutory duty to deal with economic crime could lead to inconsistencies of approach.

A judge’s comments on the lack of recourse against an unregulated costs draftsman should focus minds on this hole in legal regulation, the Association of Costs Lawyers has argued.