‘Hesitation about adopting artificial intelligence (AI) by law firms nervous of the risks presented by a regulatory grey area is causing a bottleneck that needs to be cleared, according to LawtechUK.’
Legal Futures, 18th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has fined an Oxfordshire law firm £20,000 after finding it “reckless” in failing to comply with the anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.’
Legal Futures, 18th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A bank’s solicitor may owe a duty of care to the seller of the property when filling in Land Registry paperwork to change the register, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 16th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been sanctioned in costs after prematurely stating on its website that it had banned a former trainee solicitor from working for law firms.’
Legal Futures, 16th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A High Court master has rejected what he described as a law firm owner’s attempt to “stifle” a misuse of private information (MPI) claim by a junior solicitor he dismissed by applying to have her case struck out.’
Legal Futures, 11th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Legal regulators can reduce the amount of enforcement work they need to undertake if they can build enough trust that lawyers will approach them before things go wrong, an event has heard.’
Legal Futures, 10th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘When professionals are sued, it’s not unusual for them to make an assertion that their clients were “up to something”, or to complain that they had provided wilfully misleading or incomplete instructions.’
4 New Square Chambers, 7th December 2022
Source: www.4newsquare.com
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) can enforce a £15,000 costs order against a struck-off solicitor more than 12 years after it was made, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 6th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘An assistant solicitor who won his unfair dismissal claim solely on the basis of the procedure followed has failed to persuade the judge to reconsider his decision.’
Legal Futures, 5th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has issued a stark warning to solicitors who sign a certificate of compliance on non-compliant witness statements so their clients can have their day in court.’
Legal Futures, 4th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to take a “more robust approach” to enforcing its transparency rules after its latest work indicated widespread non-compliance.’
Legal Futures, 20th December 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that a costs bill can be challenged after the one-year time limit for requesting detailed assessment. In Menzies v Oakwood Solicitors, Mr Justice Bourne said Leeds firm Oakwood Solicitors had not made clear to a former client the procedure for objecting to the deduction of costs from his damages. Payment was therefore not effected by a settlement of account and a challenge could still be made.’
Law Society's Gazette, 16th December 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Broken heating, sewage, mould, asbestos and leaking toilets and roofs are among the problems encountered by solicitors in courts in England and Wales, a survey by the Law Society has found.’
The Guardian, 19th December 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman whose solicitors’ error meant she was too late to challenge her mother’s will has been given permission to bring her action out of time.’
Legal futures, 2nd December 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The family court has reserved praise for a solicitor operating in the face of repeated abuse from a litigant in person. In TF v DL (Post separation Litigation Abuse) a father made a total of 13 applications in relation to access to his children, the tone of which District Judge Webb described as “deeply offensive, homophobic and sexist”.’
Law Society's Gazette, 1st December 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Law Society yesterday reacted with fury to the government’s failure to deliver the 15% increase in criminal legal aid fees that its own report said was needed as a bare minimum.’
Legal Futures, 1st December 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘All those who work in law firms, not just lawyers, are liable to sanction by both their employer and the SRA for acts of misconduct…’
Kingsley Napley Employment Law Blog, 29th November 2022
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
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