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  • 22 Nov 2021 9:25 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 22 Nov 2021 9:25 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 22 Nov 2021 9:23 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 10 Oct 2021 11:26 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 10 Oct 2021 11:16 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 10 Oct 2021 11:15 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 10 Oct 2021 11:15 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 19 Sep 2021 8:06 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 06 Sep 2021 11:10 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

  • 06 Sep 2021 11:10 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

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