Aa Solicitors News Today

Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).

By John Hyde2021-05-13T08:24:00+01:00 A solicitor who ignored red flags on dozens of suspicious personal injury claims has been fined £35,000 by a tribunal. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found that Asghar Ali, director and owner of Bolton firm AA Solicitors Limited, failed to spot that multiple claims from the same source were ‘strikingly similar’ in nature and bore the hallmarks of fraud. Ali, a solicitor for 19 years, turned a ‘wilful blind eye’ to the obvious suspicious cir...