All SDT articles
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NewsFormer coroner struck off for downplaying rape allegation
Criminal allegations were not pursued but tribunal finds phone call to explain them was dishonest.
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NewsSRA hit with £50,000 costs order after botched prosecution
Tribunal says SRA investigator was ‘evasive’ and ‘combative’ at times during cross-examination.
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NewsThird solicitor faces SDT over Mail sting
Immigration practitioner denies telling undercover reporter that marriage would help asylum claim.
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NewsStrike-off for failing to verify known client's ID in person
Meeting a client in person is ‘fundamental’ to certification process, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal rules.
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FeatureDecisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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NewsSolicitor banned for certifying documents online
Director of certification service claimed that documents uploaded to website counted as originals.
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NewsCity solicitor who lied about having cancer struck off
Lawyer ‘compounded his initial lie with further acts of dishonesty’, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal finds.
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NewsSolicitor who tried to involve junior in dishonesty is struck off
Legal executive reported matter to partner as she felt uncomfortable about email exchanges.
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NewsCarter-Ruck partner pursues SRA for £1m over failed ‘SLAPP’ case
Regulator warns that ‘eye-watering’ costs order would have a ‘chilling’ effect on its ability to go after media lawyers.
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NewsSolicitor cleared but paralegal barred over misleading emails
Solicitor had denied authorising misleading emails about conveyancing transactions.
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NewsSolicitor cleared of telling client to fabricate defence in cricket match-fixing case
No evidence to show that criminal lawyer Shahid Ali encouraged his client, a former professional cricketer, to lie.
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FeatureDecisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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NewsSolicitor lied to judge about appearing from Germany
'To mislead a judge in court is a serious misconduct,' SDT rules in strike-off decision.
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NewsSRA to pay £160,000 costs after 'misconceived' pursuit of veteran solicitor
Regulator’s case ‘lacked any proper foundation in law or fact’, tribunal rules.
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NewsYoung solicitor suspended over amendment to handover note
Tribunal found solicitor’s ‘dishonesty was brief, confined to a single matter [and] unaccompanied by gain to the solicitor or actual harm to the client’.
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NewsSolicitor who recorded false time entries for legal aid struck off
Former practitioner at national criminal defence firm claimed 133 days of working more than 24 hours.
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NewsDrunken kiss not misconduct, SDT finds
Workplace culture 'lacked appropriate safeguards and encouraged excessive drinking'.
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NewsNon-practising solicitor struck off for dishonest criminal case work
Gavin Clarke said his judgement was impaired by personal and professional difficulties.
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NewsSDT throws out Carter-Ruck 'SLAPP' case
SRA's prosecution ‘based on hindsight rather than evidence of professional misconduct’, tribunal finds.