Compliance & Regulation

Both a sub-postmaster victim of the Post Office scandal and the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority have urged lawyers to call out colleagues’ improper behaviour.

The SRA is investigating why after-the-event insurers have not paid out on policies arranged by the collapsed SSB Group and whether it shows a wider problem with ATE.

Law firms at the heart of forcing oppressive non-disclosure agreements on actors have been reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, it emerged yesterday.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has handed out more than £55,000 in fines to firms and individual lawyers for breaches of anti-money laundering requirements.

The Bar Council has warned the Bar Standards Board not to go too far in its oversight of chambers and said its idea of encouraging smaller sets to merge is “inappropriate”.

A management consultant with significant retail and healthcare experience has been named as the new chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel.

A conveyancer who forgot to put in place a declaration of trust on the ownership of a property in the rush to beat the stamp duty holiday deadline in 2021 has been rebuked.

A solicitor who contacted hundreds of people on a spreadsheet he was accidentally sent to ask if they wanted to bring data protection claims over the error has been rebuked.

A legal secretary convicted of offences to supply class A drugs due to her involvement in a county lines gang has been banned from working in the solicitors’ profession.

A campaign group has urged the legal profession to support legislative reform to stop the abuse of non-disclosure agreements.

A partner who signed statements of truth in six cases using an absent assistant solicitor’s signature has been handed a short suspension.

Claims management companies have been warned to stop using their Financial Conduct Authority authorisation to lend credibility to their unregulated activities.

Concern among MPs about the fall-out from the collapse of Sheffield-based SSB Law is growing rapidly, while one of the insurers that was pursuing its clients for costs has paused its activities.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has taken action of differing levels of severity in 24 cases where misconduct in relation to non-disclosure agreements was alleged, it has emerged.

A solicitor who concealed from his law firm that he was acting for clients in a personal capacity, getting them to pay £3,250 into his personal bank account, has been struck off.