Proposed 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 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 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 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 ArticleInjury claims 'clustered' around certain towns and solicitors - warning
A small number of legal firms are responsible for a huge number of personal injuries actions, the Law Society has been warned. There are fears that an unusually high number of spurious claims are...
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 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 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 ArticleMinister Fitzgerald publishes proposed amendments to the Legal Services...
(Source: Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland) 'This landmark bill delivers real and lasting reform in the legal services areas, to benefit of the justice system, the consumer and the...
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 ArticleSydney solicitor struck off for 'borrowing' clients' money
A Sydney solicitor who kept "deplorable" financial records and secretly borrowed clients' money to pay off other client debts has been struck off the roll of lawyers. Albert-Edris Truong of...
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...
View ArticleFormer solicitor stole €260k from clients after series of 'catastrophic'...
A former solicitor who was €6.5 million in debt stole €260,000 from her clients after she made a series of “catastrophic” investments during the property boom, a court has heard. Share Former solicitor...
View ArticleExcess charges of €340,000 in solicitors’ work on €14m estate
Two solicitors overcharged by €340,000 for their work on administering the estate of a woman who left €14 million to the St Vincent de Paul charitable society, the High Court has been told. Gerard...
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