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A commercial law firm in Exeter is set for significant expansion after a local entrepreneur took a minority stake and became a director – as well as being added to its name.

Two more firms in the Metamorph Law group – including the one to which the caseloads of several others were being transferred – were shut down today.

A pupil barrister who passed off other people’s work as his own and lied about it to the head of his chambers’ pupillage committee has been told he cannot qualify for at least three years.

A reality TV star has been found fundamentally dishonest in bringing a personal injury claim that was undermined by what he put up on social media from Ibiza in the wake of his accident.

The law firm at the heart of the mystery of what is happening at the Metamorph Law group was also involved with Kingly Solicitors, another consolidator shut down by the SRA two years ago.

A solicitor “tested the ethical standards” of the profession by seeking a loan from a client to pay school fees without advising him to seek independent advice, the SDT has found.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is set to make the first changes to its Standards and Regulations since the rules were introduced three years ago.

Law firms are “well placed” to set socio-economic diversity targets because of data they are required to collect by the SRA, a taskforce led by the City of London Corporation has said.

There is “no prototype” for how to contextualise transparency data about law firms for consumers, and it will not be perfect from the start, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has warned.

The poor performance of the Bar Standards Board is set to hit barristers in the pocket as it seeks to increase salaries to overcome recruitment and retention difficulties.