‘A West Yorkshire firm has been fined by the regulator for charging personal injury clients higher fees than allowed under the rules on damages-based agreements.’
Law Society's Gazette, 15th July 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A specialist sports law firm has been fined £36,000, and its COFA rebuked, for allowing its client account to be used as a banking facility.’
Legal Futures, 10th July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed that any fine it imposes on law firms should be at least £5,000, as well as ending fines for solicitors convicted of drink-driving.’
Legal Futures, 1st July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Parking authorities in the UK have published new car parking rules today that will affect all drivers in the country.’
The Independent, 27th June 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A water company fined £90,000 for dumping sewage into a river has been unable to explain two of the spillages.’
The Independent, 22nd June 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A law firm whose compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) stole £157,000 has been fined for not having proper systems governing payments from client account.’
Legal Futures, 18th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A landowner who benefited from chopping down a protected woodland has been fined £1,500 and handed an £11,280 confiscation order.’
BBC News, 14th June 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The organisers of a horse and carriage fun day have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £230,000 after a teenager was killed taking part in an event 12 years ago.’
BBC News, 15th June 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Metropolitan Police officer who “manhandled” and wrongly arrested a woman for bus fare evasion in front of her distraught young son has been fined £1,500.’
The Independent, 15th June 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A street trader fined for illegally selling food out of a van was prosecuted again for doing the same thing days after his case was heard in court.’
BBC News, 10th June 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman has been jailed for default of payment of a £167,378 fine issued after she failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice to remove structures she built on green belt land.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th June 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Budget airlines including Ryanair and EasyJet have been fined a total of €150 million (£128 million) by Spain’s government for “abusive practices” including charging passengers for carry-on baggage.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st May 2024
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A law firm in Nottingham that failed to perform undertakings it gave on two property transactions – allowing another party to register a charge on one of them – has been fined £12,400.’
Legal Futures, 29th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A farmer has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence and fined after his cattle trampled one dog walker to death and left another paralysed.’
BBC News, 29th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A pensioner has been fined thousands of pounds for illegally storing waste, including scrapped cars, at a site in Somerset.’
BBC News, 29th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs more powers to prevent misconduct by law firms involved in strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), peers have urged.’
Legal Futures, 15th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A man who refused to pay a parking ticket because it was issued in English has lost his case against a parking company.’
BBC News, 13th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Cat owners have been urged to take action or face a £500 fine under new laws to be introduced next month.’
The Independent, 8th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind.’
The Guardian, 21st April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) blitz on breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) rules has continued, with more than £76,000 in fines handed out to a solicitor and four law firms.’
Legal Futures, 22nd April 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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