‘More than a quarter of SME law firms (27%) have not yet embraced the Solicitors Qualiying Exam (SQE), and nearly a half are not offering solicitor apprenticeships, research has found.’
Legal Futures, 18th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A law firm whose compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) stole £157,000 has been fined for not having proper systems governing payments from client account.’
Legal Futures, 18th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A law firm with nearly 50 people specialising in family and commercial work has seen fee income rise after introducing a four-day week.’
Legal Futures, 18th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Slough firm is facing a wasted costs order after it showed a “lackadaisical” approach to a breach of contract claim it was instructed in, a court has heard.’
Law Society's Gazette, 17th June 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A law firm has failed in a defamation action over negative reviews about it on Trustpilot, with the High Court ruling that it could not prove they caused any financial loss.’
Legal Futures, 14th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Three-quarters of lawyers agree that using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) helps them “get to a first draft quicker”, according to a report on trials run by a leading City law firm.’
Legal Futures, 11th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A law firm in Nottingham that failed to perform undertakings it gave on two property transactions – allowing another party to register a charge on one of them – has been fined £12,400.’
Legal Futures, 29th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs more powers to prevent misconduct by law firms involved in strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), peers have urged.’
Legal Futures, 15th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The options for solicitors to offer services to the public as freelancers or from unregulated businesses have had a “modest impact on consumer choice”, research for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has found.’
Legal Futures, 13th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has called for the power to launch “wide-sweeping inspections” of law firms without needing the trigger of a specific allegation of misconduct.’
Legal Futures, 8th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has called for the power to launch “wide-sweeping inspections” of law firms without needing the trigger of a specific allegation of misconduct.’
Legal Futures, 8th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A firm of solicitors was instructed to act in relation to a trust of property, but negligently failed to give effect to the settlor’s intentions with the result that the trust failed to confer the intended benefit on the settlor’s children. Faced with a claim brought by the settlor, the trustees and the intended beneficiaries, the defendants1 sought to argue that all the claims should be struck out, on the basis that nobody other than the settlor had standing to sue, and his claim was statute barred. Martin Spencer J permitted all the claims to proceed. Most strikingly, he held that in his judgment, the solicitors owed the intended beneficiaries a direct duty of care. Accordingly, the judgment amounts to an open invitation to the court, at any subsequent trial of this or a similar claim, to dispense with the complexity that bedevils this area of the law and adopt a relatively straightforward route to a remedy for disappointed beneficiaries of irrevocable inter vivos trusts.’
Hailsham Chambers, 16th April 2024
Source: www.hailshamchambers.com
‘A law firm can be paid from monies held in its client account despite them being subject to both a freezing order and a third-party debt order, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 30th April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has used a case where 10 law firms are being sued to warn about “extreme attempts” to bring such claims in one action.’
Legal Futures, 22nd April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that a law firm and four of its former partners must repay money borrowed under loan agreements with a husband and his wife.’
Legal Futures, 23rd April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) blitz on breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) rules has continued, with more than £76,000 in fines handed out to a solicitor and four law firms.’
Legal Futures, 22nd April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has allowed 134 claimants to start an action against a law firm with a single claim form, which their solicitor said will strengthen the trend for class actions in the UK.’
Legal Futures, 19th April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A convicted sex offender accidentally given access by a law firm to a vulnerable child’s confidential information has been jailed for six months for not complying with court orders to delete it.’
Legal Futures, 16th April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A businessman who brought a claim against two leading law firms, and also reported them and those representing them to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), has seen his case struck out.’
Legal Futures, 11th April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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