All SDT articles
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NewsManaging partner suspended after backdating letter
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal also orders solicitor pay £24,885 in costs.
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NewsLegal aid solicitor reprimanded over accounts rule breach
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal also orders long-serving practitioner to pay £8,000 costs.
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NewsJunior suspended over single alteration to email
Regulator accepts inexperienced solicitor acted in panic and haste.
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NewsDisability rights solicitor struck off over hidden property assets
Tribunal says lawyer was dishonest and motivated by financial gain.
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NewsSolicitor struck off for stealing £85,000 from vulnerable clients
Swindon solicitor who was jailed for two years misappropriated cash through ATM withdrawals and bank transfers to her own account.
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NewsCarter-Ruck partner wants alleged SLAPP prosecution thrown out
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will hear summary dismissal application in December.
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NewsSolicitor 'chickened out' of telling client truth about her claim
Experienced practitioner wanted more time after report had suggested claim would not succeed.
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NewsMesh claims solicitor not responding to SRA, tribunal hears
Three-day substantive hearing set to go ahead next year to examine multitude of allegations.
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NewsManager whose client was politically exposed person is fined £32,500 over AML breaches
SDT also orders solicitor pay £50,000 costs and imposes practice restrictions following unintentional failings.
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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 who misled employment tribunal about 'IT issues' is struck off
Employment law specialist claimed she had not received emails due to a disabled security system.
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NewsSolicitor 'duped' into sending £1.2m kept off roll
Conveyancer had concealed the position from his insurer after a buyer who lost £350,000 complained.
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NewsPartner with 'head in sand' approach to deadline is struck off
Tribunal gives short shrift to solicitor’s claim he was overwhelmed by workload.
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NewsFirm owner suspended for hiring assistant subject to SRA restrictions
Following an agreed outcome, the solicitor has been suspended for a month and must pay £4,800 costs.
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NewsTweeting solicitor avoids suspension but must attend antisemitism course
Bradford practitioner ordered to complete at least 14 hours of diversity and anti-racism training and pay £63,000 costs.
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FeatureDecisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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NewsStrike-off for failure to declare money in divorce settlement
Partner did not consider his interest in the firm to be a matrimonial asset, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hears.
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NewsTweeting solicitor tells tribunal antisemitic post was not intended
During cross-examination practitioner acknowledges some of his social media posts were ‘offensive’.
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NewsHigh Court dismisses struck off solicitor's appeal
Mr Justice Macdonald found ‘no basis for concluding…that the decision of the tribunal was wrong’.