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Richard Hegarty, Solicitor Member of the SDT since 2009, retired on 15 August 2019. Richard, in his piece for this year’s Annual Report acknowledged… Read more

Following the Legal Services Board’s approval of the Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019 (“SDPR”) the Statutory Instrument has now … Read more

In May 2019 the Tribunal submitted its application for the making of its proposed new rules to the Legal Services Board (“LSB”). This application … Read more

The SDT published its Annual Report 2018 on 25 June 2019. The Report shows that the SDT sat for 266 days in 2018 (266 in 2017) to hear 168 cases to a … Read more

Laurence Gilford, Solicitor Member of the SDT since 1998, retired on 31 May 2019. Laurence was one of the Tribunal’s longer serving Members. He … Read more

The Tribunal has now submitted its application for the making of its proposed new rules to the Legal Services Board (“LSB”). The 28-day initial … Read more

The President of the Tribunal, Edward Nally, is sorry to announce the death of former Vice-President and Lay Member Ged Fisher on 13 April 2019. Ged … Read more

Between 16 July and 8 October 2018 the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) consulted on the making of procedural rules in relation … Read more

The SDT is introducing a secure, cloud based, digital court platform called CaseLines.  Parties in a case will be able to upload evidence … Read more

Millius Palayiwa, Lay Member of the SDT since 2009, retired on 3 March 2019. Millius was elected Lay Vice-President of the Tribunal by his fellow … Read more