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Two directors of an alternative business structure (ABS) have been fined for not supervising a branch office where a fellow partner and a bogus solicitor carried out a £3.3m property fraud.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitors-fined-for-failing-to-prevent-3-3m-property-fraud

Plans by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to add a new cyber-losses clause to professional indemnity insurance (PII) policies could force some law firms to close, the Law Society has warned.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-cyber-losses-clause-could-force-firms-to-close

A High Court judge has struck out a £58m unlawful means conspiracy claim against a law firm, four solicitors and a QC, which she described as “structurally fatally flawed, abusive and lacking in pleadable substance”.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/abusive-claim-against-lawyers-in-jarndyce-style-litigation-struck-out

A change in mindset about the way we approach dispute resolution methods will be one of the legacies of the Covid-19 pandemic, with remote mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) expected to be here to stay.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/remote-mediation-post-pandemic

A solicitor who turned “a wilful blind eye to the obvious suspicious circumstances” of dozens of virtually identical personal injury claims has been handed a £35,000 fine.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-turned-wilful-blind-eye-to-highly-suspicious-pi-claims

A solicitor found by a High Court judge to have deliberately misled the court has now been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-who-deliberately-misled-high-court-struck-off

What a High Court judge said yesterday were among “the most serious allegations ever levelled against English solicitors in civil proceedings” will be heard in January 2023, he has decided.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/trial-set-for-most-serious-allegations-made-against-solicitors-in-civil-courts

The Court of Appeal has reinstated the ruling of an employment tribunal (ET) that a law firm was entitled to fire a partner accused of ‘topping up’ legal aid fees with cash from a client’s father.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/partner-fired-for-topping-up-fees-fairly-dismissed-court-of-appeal-rules

As part of the acclaimed Disputes Yearbook, Legal Business interviewed members of our disputes team exploring the litigation landscape and what RPC brings to the table.

https://www.rpc.co.uk/perspectives/commercial-disputes/disputes-yearbook-2021-civil-fraud/

One of the solicitors who acted for sub-postmasters cleared last week by the Court of Appeal is to call on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to investigate every lawyer acting for the Post Office.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sub-postmasters-solicitor-calls-on-sra-to-investigate-post-office-lawyers