Former 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...
View ArticlePhil Shiner: Iraq human rights lawyer struck off over misconduct
The campaigning human rights lawyer Phil Shiner has been struck off as a solicitor after he was found guilty of multiple professional misconduct charges, including dishonesty and lack of integrity. The...
View ArticleBid to stop tribunal from placing sanctions on barrister dismissed
The High Court has dismissed a barrister’s action aimed at preventing an internal disciplinary tribunal from imposing sanctions on him. Lawyers for Alan Toal BL, who initiated the proceedings after an...
View ArticleLegal reform: Professions to retain key powers in plan
The representative bodies for barristers and solicitors will retain many of their major powers as the Government makes a late push to proceed with a long-delayed overhaul of the legal professions by...
View ArticleJudge refuses struck-off solicitor’s bid to resume practice
A solicitor struck off three years ago has lost his High Court bid to have his name restored to the Roll of Solicitors. The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, found David Walsh, who...
View ArticleA New Model for SEC Enforcement: Producing Bold and Unrelenting Results (SEC...
(Source: SEC - The United States Securities and Exchange Commission) Chair Mary Jo White New York University School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement New York University School of...
View ArticleStephen Blake explains the benefit of specialist cartel enforcement...
(Source: CMA - Competition and Markets Authority) The case for specialist enforcement authorities from the perspective of the UK Competition and Markets Authority Introduction Good afternoon, ladies...
View ArticleExceptional lawyers recognized with Queen’s counsel designation (Government...
(Source: Government of British Columbia) Honourable Lance Sidney George Finch served as Chief Justice for the Court of Appeal of B. C. for 20 years and as a trial judge of the Supreme Court of B.C. for...
View ArticleAnnual Results for financial year 2016
BBGI SICAV S.A. 29 March 2017 BBGI SICAV S.A. ('BBGI' or the 'Company') Annual Results for financial year ended 31 December 2016 This announcement contains inside information COMPANY OVERVIEW Key...
View ArticlePreliminary Results to 31 March 2016 (Land Securities Group plc)
(Source: Land Securities Group plc) Forward-looking statements These annual results, the Annual Report and the Land Securities' website may contain certain 'forward-looking statements' with respect to...
View ArticleCompagnie Financière Richemont's (CFRUY) Management on Fiscal Q4 2017 Results...
Compagnie Financière Richemont AG ADR (OTCPK:CFRUY) Q4 2017 Results Earnings Conference Call May 12, 2017 3:30 AM ET Executives Sophie Cagnard - Group Corporate Communications Director Johann Rupert -...
View ArticleNew year honours 2015: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours...
View Article“Special Measures”
Summary [We] have to become good at using… the rule of law to fight corruption, [and] to strengthen national anti-corruption legislation. –Chinese President Xi Jinping, addressing a major Central...
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