The solicitors watchdog has banned a former Macfarlanes LLP paralegal from working in the legal profession after an investigation found that she had gained access to model answers and a mark scheme for a training contract assessment.
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Macfarlanes Paralegal Barred From Legal Work For Cheating

By Tabitha Burbidge

The solicitors watchdog has banned a former Macfarlanes LLP paralegal from working in the legal profession after an investigation found that she had gained access to model answers and a mark scheme for a training contract assessment.

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Barrister Fails To Restore Full Harassment Claim Against BSB

By Jamie Lennox

A tribunal has blocked a barrister's attempt to rekindle her claim that the Bar Standards Board racially harassed her by mishandling a 2018 misconduct complaint from her neighbor, upholding an earlier ruling that she brought some of the case too late.

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Delayed Tribunal Center Project To Cost Gov't £67M

By Ashish Sareen and Adele Redmond

A new tribunal center in London's financial district is currently set to cost about £67 million ($86.7 million) to make it fully functional following delays, the government told Law360.

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ENFORCEMENT

Law Firm PCB Fined £25K Over AML Failings On PEP Client

By Ashish Sareen

PCB Lawyers LLP has been fined for failing to carry out enhanced checks when it represented a foreign politically exposed person and associated companies for eight years, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.

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LITIGATION

Womble Bond Atty's Contempt Order Isn't Final, 4th Circ. Told

By Hayley Fowler

A federal judge's order holding a Womble Bond Dickinson partner in contempt of court over misrepresentations he allegedly made to a foreign tribunal isn't a final decision capable of being appealed, a software company told the Fourth Circuit in seeking to have the appeal tossed.

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