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SDT strikes off solicitor for practising while bankrupt and not repaying £8,000 loan from vulnerable client

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Not directly related to legal fees but this story is worth a mention in any event. Although the solicitor was quite rightly struck off, the really quite astonishing aspect is that in taking and then failing to repay a loan of £8,250 from a client who was "a vulnerable elderly person, of limited means" the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal "could not find the solicitor had acted with a lack of integrity".
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Mark has over 30 years’ experience of costs during which time he has run his own costs firm, been a national advocacy manager for one of the largest legal costs companies in the UK and acted as a consultant to a number of leading firms of solicitors.











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