Latest news

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.

The number of reports to the Bar Standards Board of bullying and harassment has almost doubled in the last year, the regulator has revealed.

Katch Fund Solutions – which is funding consumer claims worth hundreds of millions of pounds – has put its litigation fund into liquidation, it has emerged.

Midlands law firm Wright Hassall held talks with 28 possible acquirers or merger partners over the course of a year before being sold in a pre-pack administration to one of them.

Delays in the county courts are finally on the decline but they still comfortably exceed a year for anything but the small claims track, according to new figures.

The government has gathered a group of leading figures in the law and business into the English Law Promotion Panel with the aim of “future-proofing” the UK legal sector.

The SRA will respond “sympathetically” to self-reports from those who may have been operating incorrectly under the terms of the Mazur ruling.

The managing partner of a fast-growing, employee-owned Yorkshire law firm says it is ready to expand outside the county after opening a 24th office.

A ban on referral fees and an increase in the small claims limit are among ideas floated yesterday by the government to curb “unscrupulous” behaviour in housing disrepair cases.