Filter news by category
A barrister found to have brought a fundamentally dishonest personal injury claim was not disbarred after a tribunal did not accept that his case was actually fraudulent.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/tribunal-barristers-fundamentally-dishonest-claim-was-not-fraudulent
The country’s largest conveyancing group has been told by its regulator to improve communication with clients in the wake of a paralysing cyber-attack this week.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/conveyancing-giant-told-to-improve-communication-after-cyber-attack
A law firm is at the heart of the largest ever proceeds of crime forfeiture in the UK after an investigation spanning three continents.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/law-firm-subject-to-uks-biggest-ever-proceeds-of-crime-forfeiture
A sister and brother have been struck off as solicitors for putting their own financial interests ahead of clients who lost money in dubious parking space and storage pod investment schemes.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sister-and-brother-struck-off-for-work-on-dubious-investment-schemes
A solicitor’s failure to conduct proper client ID checks and to confirm that the client owned the property he said he did inadvertently facilitated a fraud, it has emerged.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/rebuke-for-solicitor-whose-failures-inadvertently-facilitated-fraud
The government has rejected a call from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) that small law firms should have to pay its new economic crime levy.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/treasury-rejects-sra-and-law-society-pleas-over-economic-crime-levy
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has banned a string of non-solicitors from working in the profession for dishonesty, including theft, fabricating letters and faking a client’s signature.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-bans-non-solicitors-for-theft-fabrication-and-forgery
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has banned a string of non-solicitors from working in the profession, with issues like theft, overbilling and fabricating documents among the causes.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/fraud-overbilling-and-more-sra-bans-non-solicitors-over-misconduct
Two solicitors who breached the trust of vulnerable clients in need of cash by acting in a dodgy quick home sale scheme have been suspended from practice.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitors-suspended-for-role-in-quick-sale-property-scheme
A solicitor who abused his position as the executor of an estate and stole £275,000 from it to spend on an “excessive lifestyle” has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-who-stole-275000-from-clients-estate-struck-off
Search articles by keyword
Midlands Fraud Forum Ltd. Reg.No: 06436330 Copyright © 2023 Disclaimer & Privacy Policy