Woman loses £129,000 after receiving bogus email claiming to be from conveyancers (TC)
A woman who bought a house before auction and transferred the majority of the £148,000 price to a fraudster says by the time she realised what had happened, her bank’s […]
A seven-page code and solicitors practising wherever they want (LF)
The Solicitors Regulation Authority unveiled a seven-page code of conduct for solicitors and six-page code for firms as part of a radical shake-up of the way it oversees the profession.
Things we learned from the SRA consultation on the new code of conduct (LF)
It’s shorter, six principles not ten and accounts will be simplified.
SRA plans to exclude fees from narrower definition of client money in accounts rules overhaul (LF)
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is planning a new definition of ‘client money’ which would exclude fees and disbursements.