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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has shut down four law firms so far this week – two of them connected to the same man.

The government’s motor insurance taskforce reported yesterday with a hint that it may extend the whiplash tariff to other injuries and also review the small claims limit.

Both the structure and delivery of legal services – such as a lack of guidance and reactive communication – can cause difficulties for consumers, new research has found.

The Legal Services Board has expressed “significant concerns about the viability” of the Legal Ombudsman scheme as it struggles to get its caseload under control.

Digitally excluded consumers need law firms to maintain “meaningful offline routes” to services because “digital transformation is not inherently progressive”, says a report for four legal regulators.

Many property disputes “could be amenable to machine-made decision-making” in the future, the Master of the Rolls has predicted.

Listed law firm Gateley has estimated that “pre-budget transactional inertia” shrunk its revenue by around £3m, wiping out growth in its corporate department.

Most of the HM Land Registry customers will avoidable requisition rates of 20% or more are law firms, new figures have revealed.

The government yesterday pledged further action to target professional enablers of fraud, like corrupt lawyers, and called for “innovative” approaches to strengthening ethics.

The SDT has lifted all restrictions on the future practice of a solicitor who was indefinitely suspended for failing to pay indemnity insurance premiums.