Legal Services

Lawyers are both “key facilitators” of serious and organised crime, and an “important part” of the response to it, the government said yesterday.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyers-in-firing-line-of-home-offices-serious-crime-strategy

A solicitor jailed for five years for defrauding clients of over £144,000 has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-who-defrauded-clients-of-144000-is-struck-off

The legal profession will have to develop “cyber ethics” to cope with the very different issues that the growing use of technology is having on the practice of law, a leading academic has suggested.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/new-tech-demands-code-of-cyber-ethics-for-lawyers

A partner who abused his position of trust “in the most despicable way”, raising false bills and using client money to “prop up” his law firm, has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/despicable-partner-used-client-money-to-prop-up-firm

The outgoing head of the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice has said disclosure failings remain the "biggest single cause of miscarriages of justice" and called for a "targeted review" into existing convictions.

http://www.cityam.com/265402/disclosure-failings-biggest-single-cause-miscarriages

He is alleged to have submitted fraudulent legal aid claim forms for his personal benefit while working as a sole practitioner

https://www.irishlegal.com/article/derry-solicitor-denies-legal-aid-fraud-charges-in-court

A solicitor whose conduct “was about as dishonest as it could get” – and left the profession to pick up a £175,000 bill to compensate a vulnerable client he had “preyed on” – has been struck off.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-about-as-dishonest-as-it-could-get

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has won a £700,000 award from the government to support and accelerate the ideas of law firms and others to improve access to justice using artificial intelligence (AI).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-wins-700k-government-grant-to-support-firms-using-ai

Small law firms are increasingly being targeted by cyber-criminals, but very few attacks are actually succeeding, new research has found.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/law-society-cyber-criminals-targeting-more-small-firms

A renowned media lawyer is to face the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over allegations that he posted offensive messages on social media, believed to be in response to neo-Nazi trolls.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/high-profile-solicitor-facing-tribunal-over-online-spats-with-neo-nazis