Hong Kong's top judge 'keen to raise status of solicitors'
Seasoned solicitors may be a step closer to being honoured as "senior counsel", the status now reserved for barristers that the top judge is said to be favourably disposed to extending to qualified...
View ArticleProposed Handbook changes will have major implications for the solicitor...
(Source: The Law Society) The Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) proposals for changes to their Handbook for solicitor and firm regulation, if accepted, will leave clients with less protection and...
View ArticleJudgments: key cases in brief
Solicitor guilty of misconduct in attempting to cover up earlier mistake Kean v. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal [2014]IEHC 432 (High Court, Kearns P, 23 September 2014) High Court dismisses appeal...
View ArticleTánaiste welcomes Oireachtas approval of nominations for membership and Chair...
(Source: Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland) · Vital steps taken in bringing new Legal Services Regulatory Authority into operation. · 11 people approved this week for membership as required...
View ArticleSolicitors' practising certificate fee 9 per cent cut proposed this year -...
(Source: The Law Society) Solicitors could pay £30 less for their practising certificate (PC) fee this year. The Law Society of England and Wales and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) today...
View ArticleLawyer who did 'everything' to avoid giving client money guilty of misconduct
A lawyer who did "everything in his power" to avoid paying $10,000 back to a client he negligently represented has been found guilty of professional misconduct. The client had taken the unnamed lawyer...
View ArticleSolicitor with ‘very bad record’ must work under supervision
A solicitor with a “very bad record” of professional misconduct has failed in his High Court bid to overturn a decision he can only practise under supervision of another solicitor. John Condon, a...
View ArticleCourt judgments - the week’s key legal cases in brief
Solicitor guilty of misconduct in attempting to cover up earlier mistake Kean v. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal [2014]IEHC 432 (High Court, Kearns P, 23 September 2014) High Court dismisses appeal...
View ArticleHong Kong Law Society president seeks senior counsel status for solicitors
The professional body for solicitors has made a fresh call for its senior members to be given proper recognition by according them the status of senior counsel - a title which is currently only given...
View ArticleLawyers’ fees must reflect economy, says president of High Court
Lawyers cannot make “comfortable assumptions” about legal fees remaining at the levels payable before the recession, the president of the High Court has warned. Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said fees...
View ArticleTánaiste Welcomes the First Meeting of the New Legal Services Regulatory...
(Source: Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland) · New Regulatory Authority held its first meeting on today · Tánaiste met and congratulated Dr. Don Thornhill, Chairperson, and the other members...
View ArticleBarristers dismiss ‘rather silly’ solicitors’ claims on law and life
The representative body for barristers has described as “unfortunate and rather silly” a claim by the Law Society that solicitors have wider experience of “law and life” than barristers. The exchange...
View ArticleBarrister seeks to stop sanctions over breach of code of conduct
A barrister has launched a High Court action aimed at preventing an internal disciplinary tribunal from imposing sanctions on him. The action has been brought by Alan Toal BL, who claimed in court...
View ArticleCase of former solicitor who stole from clients to be re-heard
The case of a former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients is to be re-heard after the sentencing judge realised that a member of her wider family knows a relative of the accused. Jacqueline...
View ArticleMinister Fitzgerald welcomes the completion of passage of the Legal Services...
(Source: Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland) 15 December 2015 The Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD has welcomed the completion of all stages the Legal Services...
View ArticleFormer Mayo solicitor who stole from clients jailed for a year
A former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients over a three year period has been jailed for a year. Jacqueline Durcan (47), a mother-of-five originally from Co Mayo, carried out the thefts...
View ArticleCanberra lawyer disbarred for professional misconduct
A Canberra lawyer has been banned from practising law after a court found he had misused money he held in trust for clients. The ACT Supreme Court earlier this month ordered Mark Andrew Slater's name...
View Article'Harry Potter' lawyer 'failed to keep client records'
A lawyer criticised for dressing "like something out of Harry Potter" did not keep proper records because they were a waste of paper, a tribunal has heard. Alan Blacker angered a judge at Cardiff Crown...
View ArticleDiluted Legal Services Regulation Bill has 235 amendments and counting
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has said long-awaited legislation to reform the legal profession will be in place by the end of the year. However the Legal Services Regulation Bill, originally...
View ArticleLaw Society suspends solicitor from practising
The Law Society has secured interim orders to freeze the accounts of a solicitor after he disclosed a deficit of up to €400,000 in a client account. In documents supplied to the court Barry Murphy, a...
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