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Northern Ireland’s legal aid agency has launched a crackdown on overpayment through a new process that will see a random monthly sample of cases investigated to confirm the financial eligibility of the applicant at all stages.
https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/northern-ireland-launches-crackdown-on-legal-aid-fraud
The legal regulators have been given six months to deliver action plans to the Legal Services Board (LSB) on how they are going to reform their regimes to ensure lawyers’ ongoing competence.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lsb-tells-regulators-to-get-moving-with-ongoing-competence-reform
Lawyers working in large law firms are committed to working remotely from home post-pandemic, with almost half willing to walk away if told they had to attend the office full-time, according to a survey.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyers-will-walk-if-hybrid-working-demands-not-met
Former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner is facing fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq War veterans.
https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/20233355.ex-human-rights-lawyer-phil-shiner-facing-fraud-charges-iraq-war-claims/?ref=twtrec
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) fining powers should go “considerably beyond” the proposed increase to £25,000, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has told the Lord Chancellor.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-should-be-able-to-fine-much-more-than-25000-lsb-tells-raab
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has expressed “very significant concerns” about the professional ethics of in-house and commercial lawyers in the wake of a series of incidents which raised “difficult ethical questions”, including the Post Office scandal.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/oversight-regulator-very-concerned-about-ethics-of-commercial-lawyers
A malicious cyber-attack on the Bar Standards Board (BSB) a month ago – for the fourth time in a year – has proved “catastrophic” for the regulator, a meeting of its governing board heard yesterday.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/long-haul-to-recover-bsb-counts-cost-of-cyber-attack
https://www.business-live.co.uk/professional-services/leicester-lawyer-facing-tribunal-over-23745300
The High Court has thrown out as an abuse of process an application for summary judgment brought by victims of a solicitor’s fraud suing his firm’s insurer for £6m.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/court-rejects-summary-judgment-bid-in-6m-solicitor-fraud-case
The High Court has rejected an appeal from a barrister disbarred after a council tax conviction and submission of dishonest evidence to a Crown Court.
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/barrister-with-council-tax-conviction-fails-in-disbarment-appeal
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