References: Unreported, 20 December 1999
The Law Society intervened in the solicitor’s practice where there were considerable grounds to suspect that the solicitor was knowingly allowing his firm to be used in connection with a large fraud, even if he was not a participant in the fraud himself.
Statutes: Solicitors Act 1974
This case is cited by:
- Cited – Sheikh -v- The Law Society ChD (Bailii, [2005] EWHC 1409 (Ch), [2006] 4 All ER 717)
The claimant challenged the intervention by the Law Society in her solicitors practice.
Held: Though there were some breaches of the solicitors’ accounts rules there was insufficient basis for the Society to have behaved in the way it had and . .