All articles by John Hyde
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NewsPost Office victims' compensation battle 'worse than original injustice'
Victims’ commissioner Baroness Newlove has written to the government.
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News‘Gross exaggeration’: Court slashes firm's costs after 'inexplicable' error
Firm accepted costs were too high but explained this as an ‘inadvertent oversight’.
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NewsSRA planning 'more intrusion' into law firms in wake of SSB debacle
Firms may be questioned on the types of work they do, their reliance on certain practice areas and arrangements with litigation funders.
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NewsEminent silk urges SRA to lift threat of pre-Mazur prosecutions
Meanwhile, CILEX regulator decides that legal executives do not need to report themselves for conducting litigation.
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NewsTax lawyer Neidle facing £8m libel claim from barrister
Former Clifford Chance tax chief has applied for the action to be struck out as a SLAPP.
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NewsMPs urge government to provide Mazur clarity
Justice committee chair asks minister to look into whether Legal Services Act should be amended.
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NewsEx-solicitor fails in costly bid to return to profession
Tribunal says former sole practitioner has refused to acknowledge that original findings were correct.
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News'Disappointed' SRA points to City watchdog's AML knowledge gaps
'The Financial Conduct Authority will have to develop an expertise which it doesn’t have at the moment,' says SRA chair Anna Bradley.
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NewsBristol firm starts its own referral network to find clients a lawyer
Network members sign up to non-poaching pledge which protects referring firm’s client relationship.
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NewsGovernment strips SRA of anti-money laundering powers
Responsibility for AML and counter-terrorism financing supervision will pass to the Financial Conduct Authority.
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NewsStrike-off for misleading divorce client and firm
Solicitor of 18 years maintained pretence for three months that she was awaiting requested information.
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NewsSSB scandal exposes 'systemic shortcomings', says consumer watchdog
Regulatory framework 'does not prevent harm' and must be reformed, declares Legal Services Consumer Panel.
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NewsIn depth: SSB Law - how regulator failed to defuse timebomb
Carson McDowell’s excoriating verdict on the SRA’s handling of the SSB Law crisis describes multiple missed opportunities to protect vulnerable clients. Yet no one has been held formally accountable.
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NewsPublic spending watchdog calls for clin neg costs curbs
National Audit Office report points out that lawyers’ fees are 3.7 times higher than damages awarded to claimants in cases worth under £25,000.
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NewsSSB victims angry and confused by lack of accountability
Barrister owed £260k calls for SRA board to resign, as it emerges that staff described one complainant as a ‘busybody’.
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OpinionSSB scandal is worse than Axiom Ince - this time there’s no excuse
A culture of complacency and arrogance has created this self-inflicted mess.
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NewsFormer solicitor-judge jailed for defrauding clients over 15 years
Sean Callaghan, struck off in 2022, operated a ‘web of deception’ to steal £350,000.
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NewsSRA chair says sorry for SSB failings - but rebuffs calls to quit
Law Society says 'wholesale change' needed at frontline regulator.
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NewsSSB Law: SRA ignored red flags for five years, damning report finds
More than 100 reports were made about potential misconduct but systemic failings prevented SRA from taking earlier action.
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NewsFirm spends millions on acquisitions as business continues investing
Fletchers says private equity owners want to re-invest every penny as they approach five years in charge.