News archive
2026
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– January
(46)
- Listening, learning and leading The Solicitor’s Charity with care
- Estate planning firm becomes ABS and buys family law practice
- Lay prosecutors for train company “not a Mazur-style breach”
- Law firm offers SMEs £17.50 AI contract reviews
- Tribunal fines solicitor for source of funds and lender failures
- Paralegal to appeal after SDT refused adjournment for representation
- Judge given formal advice after creating “hostile environment”
- Court issues restraint order over LiP’s pursuit of law firm
- Property Ombudsman fires warning over conditional selling
- Revealed: SRA withdraws complaints-handling rule changes
- Law firm granted injunction following major disclosure error
- Tribunal “right” to take Sidhu’s status into account in disbarment
- LSB names chief executive as BSB starts search for a new one
- Paralegal banned for dishonest emails as supervisor cleared
- Top offshore firm eyes new locations after taking external capital
- Staff churn drops sharply as Knights reports positive results
- Billing practices and fair briefing among new Bar chair’s priorities
- Is competition in the legal sector stifling innovation?
- The new Mazur? ‘Solicitor agent’ does not have rights of audience
- Tribunal strikes out part of barrister’s claim against BSB
- Clients demanding AI chatbots to “circumvent lawyers”
- Fixed costs extension “has increased deductions from damages”
- What high-performing consumer claims firms get right
- MoJ an international outlier with client account interest plan
- Solicitors fined for misconduct over purchase of law firm
- Court of Appeal backs strike-out of £68m law firm negligence claim
- Majority of conveyancers do not want binding sale contracts
- Government will put firms “at risk” with client account interest grab
- Spot-fixing cricketer’s solicitor cleared of urging false defence
- ‘Double jeopardy’ warning over FCA money laundering switch
- Exodus of conveyancers “will make transaction times even longer”
- Ministry of Justice unveils plan to plunder client account interest
- SRA to pay solicitor £160k over “fatally flawed” prosecution
- Advertising watchdog targets motor CMCs in latest crackdown
- MPs: MoJ risks becoming ‘Ministry of Justice (for Certain People)’
- The SRA’s 2025 AML report: What law firms need to know
- “High trust” legal aid model could cut bureaucracy
- Two more acquisitions for leading PE-backed group
- Junior solicitor avoids strike-off after deleting part of handover note
- Call to tackle low-cost conveyancing as part of home-buying reform
- Professional ethics network to push for “cultural step-change”
- Mixed fortunes for Law PLC as Knights leads the way
- Solicitor billed 28 hours a day to maximise bonus
- FCA goes public with claims company investigation after court battle
- Slow progress in reshaping legal market, LSB admits
- The managing partner in 2026: skills, security and strategic technology
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– January
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