Solicitor faces £30,000 costs over SRA fine appeal
Tribunal dismisses appeal over £8,000 sanction imposed by adjudicator panel for breach of a property sale undertaking.
Yorkshire firm fined £36,000 over money laundering failings
SRA finds that Holden Smith’s significant conveyancing work was an aggravating factor.
Firm directors rebuked over dormant client accounts
SRA investigators found hundreds of thousands of pounds untouched for at least three years.
Bar voices 'serious concerns' about regulator's five-year strategy
BSB should prioritise key regulatory activities over new ‘less critical’ projects, Bar Council says.
AI regulation: What UK businesses need to know
The evolving AI regulatory landscape, the importance of adopting effective AI assurance mechanisms and the increasing role of AI-specific contractual clauses.
Decisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
Sanctions, class actions and regulations
Securities litigation.
Old chestnut back in season
Is momentum building again for a root-and-branch reform of legal services regulation?
Light relief?
What would a ‘light-touch’ approach to litigation funding regulation look like?
Why it’s time to scrap the Legal Services Board
Sweeping away the LSB given its lack of both impact and credibility would be in the public interest. The board is a burden but offers no benefit.
Glass houses
Last week I noted that the Law Society’s benchmarking survey was awkwardly timed, finding as it did that client interest is turbocharging practice profits.
