4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (518+ words) SRA: Solicitor responded slowly to requests for information A solicitor responsible for multiple rule breaches – including a shortage in client account – has been fined £20,150 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). A sole practitioner working through Mid-Wales firm Evans Roberts, Bryn…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1032+ words) In June, we discussed the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) consultation on client money in legal services. It proposed two significant changes. First, the requirement for all firms to submit annual accountants reports, and second, changes to compliance officer arrangements to…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (617+ words) Accounts: No reconciliations for two and a half years A veteran solicitor who let his firm’s accounts fall into chaos, causing the SRA Compensation Fund to pay out £400,000 to his former clients, has been suspended from practice. An external accountant…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (718+ words) SDT: Solicitor showed limited insight A solicitor who was suspended for a year after she was found to have been “grossly negligent” has failed in a bid to get conditions removed from her practising certificate. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT)…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (848+ words) A pre-action protocol run through an online portal, with preliminary decisions made by a panel of specialist lawyers, would be a better way to resolve lower-value costs disputes than handing them to the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), specialist lawyers have argued....

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (879+ words) A judge has allowed hundreds of rugby head injury claims to go ahead despite not complying with unless orders, after taking “comfort” from the players changing solicitor. Senior Master Cook said that had Richard Boardman, principal of London firm Rylands…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (774+ words) Remote work: Solicitor earned more from side hustle than actual job A solicitor who lied to his law firm about moonlighting on an online platform that allows members of the public to ask lawyers questions has been struck off. Matthew…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (603+ words) Housing: Biggest reach of legal aid deserts There has been a sharp rise in the number of people living in legal aid deserts for family and criminal law, while around 14.5m people overall are in deserts for at least one primary…...