Legal Services

This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period July - September 2020.

Insurance firm nearly doubles office partner count as it also secures a London fraud specialist

Blockchain and associated distributed ledger technologies (DLT) will storm the world of international commerce, boosted by the Covid-19 pandemic, new guidance for lawyers has predicted.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/get-ready-for-impact-of-blockchain-lawyers-told

Court and arbitration bodies need to make legal remedies built into blockchains a viable alternative to traditional dispute resolution options, lawyers have said.

A solicitor who used £100,000 from a client’s estate to pay debts to HM Revenue & Customs and an indemnity insurer before closing his firm has been struck off.

A law firm linked with 18 cases of Covid-19 was ordered to shut its office with immediate effect last week after being accused of showing “disregard” for the health of its staff.

Demand for partners who specialise in white collar crime will increase just as dramatically after the pandemic as it did after the financial crisis in 2008, a report has predicted.

A criminal law solicitor who used money from a jailed client for an appeal to stabilise his firm’s “precarious financial position” has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).

Two former solicitors have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, The Irish Examiner reports.

https://www.irishlegal.com/article/former-solicitors-plead-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-fraud

Two former solicitors and a former independent financial adviser have been charged with multiple offences in connection with the collapse of the Axiom Legal Financing Fund.