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Gross Negligence Finding Still Follows Solicitor after $2.2m Client Loss
Check out the primary source! https://solicitorstribunal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/12914.2026.Appahoh.pdf Professional restrictions have a long memory, especially when client money has gone wandering. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has refused to lift conditions on Queen Appahoh’s practising certificate after finding that the risks which justified them…
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Credit hire ADR scheme targets county court claims
Background: The General Terms of Agreement (GTA) is the long-running voluntary framework that governs much of the relationship between insurers and credit hire organisations in the UK. Developed from industry agreements that emerged in the 1990s and evolved over successive…
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Knife surrender drive removes 15,000 weapons
The law is often most visible after a serious crime has been committed. Prevention, by contrast, tends to attract less attention, even though it can be just as important. The Home Office says knife-related homicides have fallen to their lowest…
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Solicitor sentenced over fake police Nandos CCTV request
A Cheshire solicitor has avoided immediate custody after impersonating a police officer to obtain CCTV footage from Nando’s. Conor Johnstone, a director at MAJ Law in Warrington, was given a 12-month community order, ordered to complete 260 hours of unpaid…
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Solicitor struck off over alarming Email and Stalking
Check out the primary source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/160042/ The solicitor’s roll is not a cloakroom where reputation can be left while conduct gets into trouble outside. A non-practising solicitor, Adrian Robert Berkeley, has been struck off after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found…
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Southern Water Prosecution Clears Court Hurdle
Check out the primary source! https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ea-commences-criminal-proceedings-against-southern-water Southern Water’s pollution story has moved from dirty water to criminal process, which is where corporate memory starts to sweat. The Environment Agency announced on 22 July that the Administrative Court had confirmed its…
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Court of Protection Liberty Cases
Check out the primary source! https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-of-protection-daily-hearing-list The Court of Protection works like a hospital corridor at night: fluorescent, necessary and full of decisions nobody wanted to need! The daily hearing list for 24 July, updated on 23 July, again shows…
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Dieselgate ruling favours car makers
The High Court’s dieselgate ruling has largely gone the car makers’ way, which is bad news for claimant lawyers and good news for anyone who enjoys watching mass litigation refuse to die cleanly. The Pan-NOx litigation concerns diesel vehicles produced…
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