News archive
2021
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– January
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- ‘Professionally embarrassed’ lawyers wrong to withdraw during murder trial
- Solicitor allowed use of client account as £4.6m banking facility
- Barristers take on debt and other work to survive pandemic
- Will this be the Year of Lawtech?
- Male barrister fined for smacking female colleague on backside
- Another SRA prosecution fails but regulator avoids costs order
- New York rejects ABSs for now as Arizona opens doors to them
- Email attachments are not privileged just because message is
- Bridging the cultural gap
- Law firm awarded £25k damages for defamatory Trustpilot review
- Solicitor who misled tribunals on Ugandan law is struck off
- Law Society to LeO: Ask government, not lawyers, for more cash
- Knights aims to plug geographical gaps throughout UK
- “Troubling inequality” persists for BAME consumers of legal services
- Veteran solicitor practised without insurance
- Trainee specialist launches scholarships for Black graduates
- “How much does your building weigh, Norman?”
- High Court highlights “implausibility” of multi-hand fraud at City law firm
- National Audit Office challenges basis of court reforms
- SME firm eyes ABS licence to share fees with non-lawyer collaborators
- Herbert Smith paralegal banned for fake overtime approval
- Transparency failures put three firms in the dock
- High Court rejects “unmeritorious claim” against barrister
- Treasury cool on renewed call to extend SDLT holiday
- Pandemic “cut legal job vacancies by 60%”
- Prosecution of A&O partner over Weinstein NDA stayed
- Tribunal rejects law firm’s second challenge to age discrimination ruling
- Commercial firm aims to create “biggest in-house chambers”
- From M&A to Malta: New Year brings host of law firm growth strategies
- Frenkel Topping and NAHL call off takeover talks
- Cognitive diversity – why it should be top of your list in 2021
- SDT “wrong” to strike out prosecution of Law Society president
- City dominance of SRA board ends with ABS appointments
- Law firm recoups 40% of negligence payout from barrister
- Non-legal businesses fill pandemic income gap for Gateley
- QC and accountant set up ABS regulated by SRA
- Solicitor fined for role in £29m off-plan development schemes
- High Court grants barrister her “dying wish” and halves suspension
- Profession backs reforms to Law Society council
- Whiplash reforms delayed AGAIN – but only for a month this time
- Tribunal finds law firm unfairly dismissed paralegal
- Solicitor used disbursement cash to keep firm afloat
- Law Society to investigate historical links with slave trade
- RAC employee passed accident details to claims company
- Innovating an outdated criminal justice system
- Solicitor who hid evidence of error “didn’t know what she was doing”
- McFarlane tells family judges to curb out-of-hours hearings
- Minister urges councils to speed up searches amid conveyancing rush
- Pinto: Gender parity a long way off in fraud work
- Young solicitor who faked email in “moment of madness” avoids strike-off
- Court rejects solicitor’s claim that she hand-delivered files to SRA
- Inappropriate behaviour by potential QCs “not being recorded”
- Judge fines trio who provided unregulated legal advice
- Tribunal clears solicitor but refuses to order costs against SRA
- Complaint over law firm’s radio advert rejected
- UK unexpectedly reduces tax scheme reporting burden on firms
- Distributed law firm launches internship programme for postgrads
- Research lays bare gender disparities in publicly funded advocacy
- Solicitor “took advantage” of daughter-in-law over flat purchase
- Solicitor “fobbed off” staff who wanted employment contracts
- Bar students and BPP at odds over face-to-face exam this week
- Difficult year for Law PLC, with most firms seeing share prices dive
- SRA ordered to pay solicitor costs over botched prosecution
- Leading firms fined for accounts rules breaches
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