By now, we’re all aware that the supervision of legal services is set to move to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

As of 30 June 2026, the money laundering regulations have been updated again, this time to make the regime more proportionate ...

After a year of intense discussion across the legal sector, Generative AI has moved far beyond the hype cycle. The question ...

In October 2025, the UK government confirmed a major overhaul of the anti‑money laundering (AML) and counter‑terrorist ...

Much has been written about the risks of lawyers misusing AI. However, in my view, the greater challenge lies elsewhere: the ...

Legal regulation is changing fast. New AML rules, AI, cyber threats, client complaints and growing compliance demands mean law firms have never had more to keep on top of. The Legal Futures Regulation ...

There is a "compelling case" for an appeal, claimant lawyers have said, after the High Court’s liability ruling in the ...

MPs today describe a legal aid system on the verge of collapse – one that “people cannot qualify for or access, and that providers cannot sustainably deliver”. The justice select committee said there ...

A solicitor who stole nearly £1.2m from clients – in part to pay his tax bill – has been jailed for nearly four years after admitting three counts of fraud by abuse of position. Andrew Brian Alexander ...

A woman has been handed a suspended prison sentence after threatening to kill her former solicitor five years after she acted for her in Family Court proceedings. Rio Barton from Middlesbrough ...

Class action firm Pogust Goodhead (PG) was “unhelpful, uncooperative, deliberately obfuscatory and misleading” by not revealing its client’s litigation funding problems for three years, the ...

A motoring solicitor from Cheshire has been found guilty of impersonating a police officer after trying to get CCTV footage from a Nando’s restaurant. Conor Johnstone, a director at MAJ Law in ...