Pulling rank – New Law Journal
‘Is the cab rank rule still in operation, asks Jon Robins.’
New Law Journal, 13th November 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Category: professional conduct
Jose Mourinho: Chelsea boss loses appeal against FA charge – BBC News
‘Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has had his appeal against a £50,000 fine and a suspended one-game stadium ban dismissed by the Football Association.’
BBC News, 5th November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Professional Negligence: Let the Client Decide what matters – 36 Bedford Row Property Blog
‘The High Court has given a reminder of the important qualification to the general principle that a lawyer, or licensed conveyancer, is not obliged to undertake investigations that are not expressly or impliedly requested by the client. The principle is subject to the qualification that: if in fact a solicitor acquires information that may be of importance to a client; then it is the duty of the solicitor to bring that information to the attention of the client. It is the client who decides whether the information is important; the lawyer should not presume to make that decision. Failing to consider information, to advise the client or even pass on such information to the client can be costly. It is safer to communicate too much rather than too little.’
36 Bedford Row Property Blog, 27th October 2015
Source: www.36property.co.uk
Lawyers express concern over ministerial code rewrite – The Guardian
‘Conservative ministers have been accused of quietly abandoning the longstanding principle that members of the government should be bound by international law.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Users who post ‘fake’ Amazon reviews could end up in court – Daily Telegraph
‘Online retail giant files papers in the United States against more than 1,000 people, claiming that its brand reputation is being tarnished by ‘false, misleading and inauthentic’ reviews.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Solicitor expelled from profession for lying about ‘progress’ of cases that had actually been struck out – Legal Futures
‘A solicitor who deceived his firm and his clients for 13 months into thinking that he was pursuing their group employment tribunal (ET) claims, when in fact they had been struck out because of his inactivity, has been removed from the profession.’
Legal Futures, 14th October 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
SRA asks public for help in how it should judge solicitors’ behaviour – Legal Futures
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) yesterday launched a massive public opinion poll to help it determine the correct baseline of solicitors’ behaviour on which it should base regulatory decisions.’
Full story
Legal Futures, 1st October 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Jayden Parkinson: Police employee cleared of misconduct – BBC News
‘A Thames Valley Police employee has “no case to answer” for misconduct over the investigation into the disappearance of Jayden Parkinson, watchdogs said.’
BBC News, 30th September 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Magistrate quits after being suspended for paying a penniless asylum seeker’s fine out of his own pocket – Daily Telegraph
‘Nigel Allcoat said he had performed a humanitarian act in order to prevent reoffending and that his treatment ‘beggared belief’.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th September 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Judge withdraws from BA case after airline loses his luggage – The Guardian
‘A judiciary watchdog is investigating a high court judge who complained about his luggage going astray on a flight booked with British Airways while he was overseeing a case involving the airline.’
The Guardian, 21st September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge who fell asleep in rape trial guilty of ‘serious misconduct’ but keeps job – Daily Telegraph
‘Barristers confronted Recorder Cattan with their suspicion that he had fallen asleep while an under-age victim was being cross-examined.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Headmaster who supervised school trip to Brazil where student was murdered is allowed to continue teaching – Daily Telegraph
‘A headmaster who supervised a school trip to Brazil where a pupil was murdered after a drunken night out has been found guilty of professional misconduct but has not been banned from teaching.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th September 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Teachers struck off after being caught having sex in school – The Guardian
‘Two teachers who had sex in a school have been banned from teaching.’
The Guardian, 9th September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Georgia Williams murder: Family welcomes misconduct hearing – BBC News
‘The parents of a murdered teenager have welcomed a decision to make a senior police officer face a misconduct panel.’
BBC News, 29th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Wayne Scott report: Behaviour of police officer ‘unchallenged’ – BBC News
‘The “degrading behaviour” of a police officer jailed for multiple rapes was allowed to “flourish” unchallenged, a report has found.’
BBC News, 20th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
