‘The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has rebuked the Solicitors Regulation Authority for giving the impression that it treats City lawyers more leniently than solicitors from smaller firms in prosecuting allegations of lack of integrity.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Solicitors have lost a legal challenge against government plans to cut by more than half the number of duty lawyers attending magistrates’ courts and police stations in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 18th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
In re Law Society [2015] EWHC 166 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 60
‘The Law Society had power under paragraph 16 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 to destroy old and redundant documents seized in connection with interventions.’
WLR Daily, 9th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Elizabeth Metliss considers the judicial view of law firms.’
New Law Journal, 13th February 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Regina v Ali (Nazakat) [2015] EWCA Crim 43; [2015] WLR (D) 46
‘A solicitor who had been instrumental in finding brides for non-European Union clients and advising the clients to make false applications for certificates of approval, which he submitted to the to the UK Border Agency, had facilitated a breach of immigration law by his clients.’
WLR Daily, 3rd February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Law Society can destroy 1.5 million files seized from Solicitors Regulation Authority interventions in solicitors’ practices, the High Court has ruled.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th February 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘On 27th January 2015, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Cox v Woodlands Manor Care Home Ltd (unreported – approved judgment is awaited) bringing home the importance of CFAs being compliant with the Cancellation of Contracts etc. Regulations 2008 and dealing with the situation where there might be legal expenses insurance cover in the background and how this might affect any CFA entered into.’
Zenith PI Blog, 5th February 2015
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Appeal judges have ruled that solicitors cannot recover their costs where conditional fee agreements (CFAs) fail to comply with the cancellation of contracts regulations, with a potential impact on a significant number of cases.’
Litigation Futures, 2nd February 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A solicitor’s retainer is not rendered “impossible of performance” simply because a claimant loses mental capacity and cannot give instructions personally, the Court of Appeal ruled today.’
Litigation Futures, 27th January 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A theoretical business model adopted by the justice secretary to employ on-call solicitors was selected with “cavalier disregard” for fairness and real-world experience, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 19th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Law Society has obtained a groundbreaking injunction that prevents a struck-off solicitor from holding himself out as a solicitor or being involved in a law firm without its approval.’
Legal Futures, 16th January 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Sikh solicitor has won undisclosed compensation after being barred from entering a prison to visit a client because he had pins in his turban.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Law Society of England and Wales v Shah [2014] EWHC 4382 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 5
‘The supervisory jurisdiction embodied in section 50 of the Solicitors Act 1974 could not be invoked by the Law Society in the case of a solicitor who may have pretended to be one, but who had not necessarily done so, who denied doing so, and had not been cross-examined on the issue. Section 41(4)(c) of the 1974 Act was wide enough to enable the court to grant an order against a struck off former solicitor, which could be framed so as to restrain him from committing criminal acts, namely that of acting as a solicitor when disqualified, or carrying on a reserved legal activity without entitlement to do so.’
WLR Daily, 12th January 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘MI6 has been forced to reveal documents detailing how it may access legally privileged communications between solicitors and their clients, even if the lawyers are suing the government.’
The Guardian, 13th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Justice Secretary spent £72,000 of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to maintain his ban on inmates receiving books in prison from visitors.’
The Independent, 10th January 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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