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Solicitor suspended for two years over accounts failures

The former firm owner was also ordered to pay £12,000 costs

Entity regulation, employment and ethics: getting it right

Gideon Habel reflects on lessons that can be learnt from the case of a trainee dismissed during lockdown

SRA grants temporary SIF extension

LSB commends cost lawyers' regulator improvements

Previously the poorest performing legal regulator, the CLSB has made positive changes 

'Go compare' for legal services: LSB proposes single digital register of legal professionals

'Principal benefit' of single digital register is 'likely' the provision of data to enable the development of comparison tools

Money laundering: lawyers may be prosecuted for failure to disclose even where no crime

CPS guidance update has clarified circumstances in which regulated professionals may be prosecuted 

We need to talk about fitness to practise

Online Safety Bill introduces hefty fines for social media companies

Fines may be levied at the higher of £18m or 10 per cent of annual global turnover