Regulation

Personal injury law firms are among those most at risk of fines under GDPR, while data subject access requests are increasingly being used as a litigation tactic, it has emerged.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal had refused a ‘no publicity’ application by a solicitor and deputy district judge convicted of fraud last year.

The Bar Council has called on the Bar Standards Board to review the rules on fair allocation of work for barristers, saying that regulatory attention on diversity should focus on career progression.

The government is “strongly” encouraging legal regulators to take action over lawyers who advise on the use of potentially unenforceable provisions in non-disclosure agreements.

A solicitor who lied about gifts he received from a client has been struck off, with a tribunal finding that he had embarked on an “elaborate deception” of his employer involving a fake invoice.

A struck-off solicitor who admitted stealing more than £700,000 from two vulnerable people while in practice has been jailed for four years.

Insurers and others dealing with CMCs must provide the same service that they would when dealing directly with the customer, the FCA has warned ahead of taking over CMC regulation.

A conveyancing solicitor who worked on a commission basis has been suspended for two years after being found to have regularly overcharged clients for search fees.

High-profile media solicitor Mark Lewis was subject to “extreme provocation” on Twitter, but the tweets he sent in response did not live up to the profession’s standards, the SDT has ruled.

An experienced solicitor-advocate has been struck off for misleading a judge that she was a barrister and then misleading the solicitors on the other side who questioned her behaviour.