“A case concerning the standard of advice expected from a newly qualified solicitor in a brief, free, consultation with a distressed client is set for a retrial following an appeal court decision.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th January 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Solicitors are not going to sit back when welfare benefits and legal aid are withdrawn. We intend to challenge injustice in the courts.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hospitals are being instructed to remove advertisements for personal injury lawyers featured in NHS leaflets issued to patients, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The London-based lawyer at the centre of a long-running row over internet piracy has been suspended for two years and ordered to pay £76,000 in costs.”
The Guardian, 18th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has convened five of the country’s most senior judges to hear a landmark case over the social justifications that can be used to justify retiring a partner.”
The Lawyer, 17th January 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Tim Martin Interiors Ltd v Akin Gump LLP; [2011] EWCA Civ 1574; [2011] WLR (D) 39
“As regards quantification and repayment, a third party assessment under section 71 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was of limited use to a third party, since, after payment, it was not possible to require solicitors to pay to the third party money which they had received from their client and which the client was bound to pay them, merely because the third party was not liable to pay the same amount to the client.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Padden v Bevan Ashford (a firm); [2011] EWCA Civ 1616; [2011] WLR (D) 393
“A solicitor who certified in a mortgage that a client had been given appropriate legal advice about the mortgage and, to the best of his knowledge, had understood the effect of the mortgage and was not acting under undue influence or a misrepresentation, was under an obligation to have advised that client or to have taken steps to satisfy himself that she had been properly advised on those matters. His obligation went well beyond simply advising her not to sign documents disadvantageous to her.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“UK consumers and businesses will find solicitors’ firms more competitive, more accessible and more efficient following new reforms to legal services. From today, radical reforms to the legal sector are being accelerated by the addition of the Solicitors Regulation Authority to the licensing authorities for the new Alternative Business Structures (ABSs).”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd January 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Officials at Revenue and Customs are reconsidering disciplinary procedures against a whistleblower whose information has led to two inquiries into allegations that City corporations were let off billions of pounds in tax penalties. A Whitehall source said tax officials had suspended a ‘fact-finding’ investigation into Osita Mba, a tax solicitor, in the wake of criticism from MPs and the public.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Solicitors outperformed barristers in two selection exercises for the judiciary completed earlier this year, the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) has revealed.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th December 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A solicitor at HM Revenue & Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off Goldman Sachs from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is facing disciplinary procedures and possible prosecution for speaking out.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Withers LLP v Langbar International Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1419; [2011] WLR (D) 351
“In asking whether money placed in the client account of a solicitor’s client were subject to a lien in favour of the solicitor the key question was whether the money had been placed in the account for general purposes or for a particular purpose which was incompatible with a lien arising.”
WLR Daily, 5th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Law Society spent roughly £150,000 on shutting down the website Solicitors from Hell but faces a latest setback as it has emerged that similar websites attacking UK firms are appearing online, with some said to be hosted abroad to protect them from the British authorities.”
The Lawyer, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Green v Eadie and others [2011] WLR (D) 335
“Sections 2 and 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 both applied to a claim brought under section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 and such a claim was therefore, by virtue of section 8(2) of the Limitation Act 1980, not within the ambit of section 8(1) of that Act. The applicable limitation period was therefore six years. Where a person entered into a flawed transaction which might have been capable of being remedied by rescission, loss was first suffered and the cause of action therefore accrued when the person entered into the flawed transaction.”
WLR Daily, 18th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Solicitors from Hell founder Rick Kordowski has given up his legal battle against the Law Society after Mr Justice Tugendhat granted the body injunctive relief and ordered the site to be taken offline.”
The Lawyer, 16th November 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The High Court will impose fines and prison sentences on lawyers who fail to comply with the orders of the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), it has been warned.”
The Lawyer, 15th November 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“New rules take effect today that could see aspiring solicitors barred from entering the profession because of a police caution or penalty notice.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th October 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Customers who go to law firms are too often left in ignorance about progress in their case then burdened with a huge bill at the end of proceeedings, according to the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).”
The Guardian, 6th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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