News archive
2025
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– December
(50)
- AML lacks clarity – and standards are suffering
- Solicitor without PC took money for work he never did
- Private client specialists have “mixed feelings” about electronic wills
- SRA fails with two high-profile SLAPPs prosecutions
- SRA disqualifies “dishonest” non-solicitor directors of SSB Group
- Fast-growing conveyancing firm bought by private equity
- MP: Moving lawyers’ AML oversight to FCA “will help fraud fight”
- SRA urges target firms in acquisitions not to ignore due diligence
- The power of participation for trainees and apprentices
- SRA targets accountant’s reports and sole owners in shake-up
- Magic circle pay trainees less than US firms – and work them harder
- SRA shuts down four law firms in three days
- Government hints at more controls on RTA damages and costs
- Don’t forget human support in the rush to digital, lawyers told
- Is it time to change how law firms view compliance?
- LSB: “Significant concerns” over viability of Legal Ombudsman
- Law firms need to keep “meaningful offline routes” to services
- Vos eyes machine-made decisions for property disputes
- “Pre-budget inertia” costs listed law firm £3m
- Land Registry data puts spotlight on law firm errors
- Government to ratchet up pressure on “corrupt” lawyers
- Tribunal lifts restrictions on solicitor who failed to pay PII premiums
- Reports of bullying and harassment by barristers almost double
- From templates to culture change: Lessons from the SRA on source of funds
- Top litigation funder puts consumer claims fund into liquidation
- Year of M&A talks failed to find partner for historic Midlands firm
- “Tide is turning” as county court delays continue to fall
- Lammy launches English Law Promotion Panel
- SRA will take “sympathetic” approach to pre-Mazur breaches
- Law firm with 24 offices ready to expand beyond Yorkshire
- MoJ floats referral fee ban to curb housing disrepair misconduct
- Conditions removed from work of solicitor suspended over drugs
- Estate agency praised for dropping referral fee demands
- Ex-law firm owner sentenced to 12 months in jail for contempt
- Solicitor fined for failing to spot money laundering red flags
- Judicial mediation becoming a “safety net” for parties
- Digital property pack wins government data prize
- Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority
- Barrister disbarred for sexual harassment was in “position of power”
- Solicitor jailed for using drug money to pay mortgage struck off
- Most pupil barristers still coming from Oxbridge
- Increased tribunal delays have “profound impact” on claimants
- There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
- CA to decide if duping opposing solicitor is abuse of process
- Public awareness of class actions continues to grow
- Fifth of larger chambers not accessible to disabled people
- Mazur appeal lawyer sets out Court of Appeal battleground
- SRA hands out £550k in AML fines in three months
- Solicitor “wrong” to advise client to covertly record meeting
- Highest-earning barristers set to pay more to practise
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