Compliance & Regulation


Strike-off for solicitor who lied to SRA about firm’s closure

19 March 2024

A solicitor who lied to the Solicitors Regulation Authority after failing to renew his firm’s professional indemnity insurance has been struck off.


Short suspension for junior solicitor who groped colleague

18 March 2024

A male solicitor who groped and propositioned a female colleague at his firm’s Christmas party has been suspended for three months.


Money laundering solicitor finally pays off confiscation order

18 March 2024

A struck-off solicitor and money launderer has finally satisfied the £716,719 confiscation order made against him in 2017, after facing a return to jail.


Don’t put up a barrier with your business, in-house lawyers told

15 March 2024

In-house lawyers should not think they are special because of their wider duties to the court as this risks alienating them from their business colleagues, it was claimed yesterday.


Community order for disbarred barrister over antisemitic blog posts

15 March 2024

A former barrister who was disbarred for antisemitic and racist tweets has now been handed a nine-month community order for grossly offensive antisemitic material posted on his blog.


Hefty AML fine for firm that facilitated vendor fraud

14 March 2024

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has handed out three more hefty fines for anti-money laundering failures, one for a firm that facilitated a vendor fraud as a result.


Solicitor jailed after falling for scam loses appeal against sentence

13 March 2024

The former senior partner of a Norfolk law firm, jailed for four years for fraud, has failed in his appeal against sentence, with the court saying it was, if anything, “lenient”.


High Court rejects immigration solicitor’s “meritless” strike-off appeal

13 March 2024

An immigration solicitor secretly recorded by the BBC advising how to obtain “fraudulent” evidence for a visa application has failed in his appeal against being struck off.


SRA warns solicitors over ‘deepfake’ clients and vendor fraud

12 March 2024

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has warned lawyers who rely on video calls to identify clients of the risks posed by ‘deepfake’ technology and also of rising vendor fraud.


SDT clears Dentons of anti-money laundering rule breaches

12 March 2024

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, was yesterday cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over alleged breaches of anti-money laundering rules.


Motor trade legal advice service launches CIC to handle litigation

11 March 2024

An unregulated legal advice service for the motor trade has created a community interest company (CIC) so that it can provide litigation services as well.


SRA tells employers what they cannot ask in-house lawyers to do

11 March 2024

Draft guidance for employers of in-house solicitors, which aims to establish a mutual understanding of what lawyers can and cannot do, has been published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.


Post Office victim and SRA chief urge lawyers to call out colleagues

8 March 2024

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.


SRA investigates after-the-event insurance fall-out from SSB collapse

8 March 2024

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.


Firms reported for oppressive “pre-emptive” NDAs imposed on actors

8 March 2024

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

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