Tag: Solicitors Regulation Authority

Legal Services Board delays decision to accept or reject SQE
Hold-up comes as group representing more than 4,000 legal academics urge refusal

DAC Beachcroft litigation exec banned for naming client on Facebook
Also overbilled working hours

Ban for paralegal who misled court over fee payment
'Altered' email

SRA reportedly probing Mishcon de Reya
City firm allegedly being investigated over two separate matters

Suspension for ex-magic circle lawyer caught with cocaine for second time
Rumbled by an anonymous letter to HR

Top US law firm reports itself to the SRA after libel trial is Zoomed around the world
McDermott Will & Emery in hot water over breach of judge's order

Former trainee solicitor barred from legal profession following rape conviction
Ex-Cripps rookie jailed last year

No sanction for trainee solicitor who inflated billing hours
Tribunal finds rookie was not dishonest

SRA reveals SQE exam cost of £3,980 as it extends transitional arrangements in response to COVID-19
Total fee doesn't include prep course costs

Freeths partner fined £4,000 for asking derogatory question to gay trainee
Also breached accountancy rules

Ban for legal assistant who lied about passing exams
‘Altered’ letter to show CILEx assessment success

‘Can I do a UK training contract if I’m based overseas?’
We put one reader's question to the regulator

Junior solicitor fined £10,000 over abusive messages to Bumble date
James Andrew Wilson reported himself to the SRA after malicious communications conviction

Ban for ex-law firm office worker who set up spy cam in Starbucks toilet
Antony Dines also said to have recorded colleagues at work

Ban for rookie solicitor who ‘falsified’ LPC certificate to dupe regulator
Kulvinder Kooner was applying to be added to the roll

Ex-Baker McKenzie boss who attempted to kiss junior lawyer fined £55,000
Amounted to serious professional misconduct, tribunal finds

Junior lawyers call for super-exam delay as it warns MCQs may be too easy
War of words between JLD and regulator rumbles on

CONFIRMED: This is what the new solicitor super-exam will look like
Two-part assessment to come into force from 1 September 2021 -- subject to LSB approval

SRA defends decision to prosecute junior lawyer who lost work briefcase
Claire Louise Matthews has lodged appeal against strike off

Petition launched to add law student killed in drive-by shooting to solicitors roll
Barrister Sahar Farooqi urges legal community to honour Aya Hachem's passing -- but regulator says its hands are tied

How the pandemic will impact future lawyers
Four speakers from different corners of the legal profession share their insights