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Below are the disciplinary outcomes for solicitors and law firms in England and Wales published so far in 2026: fines and rebukes issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), and sanctions ordered by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). The SRA rows cover decisions with a published date between 1 January and 23 October 2026, as returned by the SRA’s decision search on 24 October 2026; the most recent fine or rebuke in that period was published on 23 September 2026. The SDT rows cover judgments the tribunal published on its case pages between 1 January and 23 October 2026, the most recent on 8 October 2026.

Last updated: 24 October 2026

In that period the SRA published 96 fines totalling £1,221,246.75, ranging from £725 to £160,059. Of those, 75 were agreed through regulatory settlement agreements, one through a regulatory issue agreement and 20 were SRA decisions. Seven fines were for £25,000, which the SRA’s guidance on financial penalties gives as “the maximum financial penalty we can impose” on solicitors, traditional law firms and the individuals who work in them. The three larger fines, against Taylor Rose Limited (£160,059), Scott-Moncrieff and Associates Limited (£68,000) and Parnalls Solicitors Limited (£32,106), were imposed on licensed bodies, for which the same guidance gives a maximum of £250 million for the entity.

The SDT published judgments striking off 51 respondents (one of them, a registered foreign lawyer, from the Register of Foreign Lawyers), suspending 15 for a fixed term, imposing a suspended suspension on 3, reprimanding 5 and fining 16, with fines totalling £208,002 (a joint fine of £4,500 counted once).

Summary by outcome

SRA counts are numbers of published decisions; SDT counts are numbers of respondents. Where the tribunal combined sanctions, for example a suspension and a fine, the respondent is counted under each. Conditions, control orders, interventions and referrals are counted but not listed by name. Conditions and section 43 orders are controls on how a person may practise or be employed rather than sanctions; an intervention can follow the death of a sole practitioner as well as concerns about a firm (one intervention published on 9 January 2026 records that the practitioner “passed away on 1 May 2025“); and a referral is a decision to bring proceedings, not a finding. The SRA also published 17 tribunal orders in the period; tribunal outcomes here are taken from the SDT’s own case pages instead.

Fines, rebukes and tribunal sanctions, January to October 2026

Newest first. The date is the date of publication by the SRA or the SDT; the underlying decision may be earlier. Amounts are the fine only and exclude costs.