Abington Law Ltd
Closed down by the SRA
We have closed this firm down to protect the public. Learn more about the regulatory record below.
- Head office address
- Liverpool View contact details
- Prohibited from
- 23/10/2024
- Regulator
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
- SRA number
- 811106
- Regulatory record
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DECISION HISTORY
This section gives the disciplinary and regulatory decisions published under our decision publication policy.
Decision - Closure
Outcome: Intervention
Outcome date: 23 October 2024
Published date: 23 October 2024
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication and at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Abington Law Ltd
Address(es): First Floor, 163 St Helens Road, Swansea, SA1 4DQ & 52 High Street, London, NW10 4LS
Firm ID: 8007067 & 811106
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
To intervene into Abington Law Ltd.
Reasons/basis
Grounds of intervention into Abington Law Ltd
- Mr Joseph Glass, as a manager of the firm, and the firm itself, have failed to comply with the SRA Accounts Rules (2019), the Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs and the Code of Conduct for Firms which are rules applicable to Mr Glass as a manager of the firm and the firm itself by virtue of section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (as amended) (paragraph 32(1)(a) of Schedule 2 of that Act).
- It is necessary to intervene to protect the interests of clients (or former or potential clients) of the firm and/or the interests of the beneficiaries of any trust of which the firm is or was a trustee (paragraph 32(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (as amended).
Intervening agents
Richard Thorpe of Shakespeare Martineau LLP, SHMA SRA Interventions, PO Box 18228, Birmingham, B2 2HX has been appointed as the intervening agent.
For enquiries please call 0300 247 2470 or email interventions@shma.co.uk
