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It seems clear that both some defendant and some claimant solicitors can be said to sail close to the wind on occasion. Anyone who believes that claimant solicitors are not tarred with the same brush as defendant solicitors should read the judgement in the Sonae group litigation, which details some pretty poor practices by the claimant solicitors. Saunderson and others V Sonae Industria (UK) Limited 2015. That did result in action against the claimant solicitors and ultimately the failure of the main claimant firm involved.
The fact is that current pressures on costs, in the case of claimant solicitors, and from their instructing insurer clients, in the case of defendant solicitors, means that both are open to temptation to cut corners as well as ignore the obvious.