Legal regulators should assure non-authorised people who may have inadvertently conducted litigation as found by Mazur that they will not face criminal prosecution or disciplinary action, a top KC has argued.

Greg Treverton-Jones KC also called on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and CILEx Regulation to provide practitioners with “hard-edged guidance on what is and is not within the meaning of the conduct of litigation”.

The silk is a leading authority on legal regulation, and general editor of The Solicitor’s Handbook , published by the Law Society.

Speaking last night at a seminar organised by his chambers, 39 Essex, Mr Treverton-Jones said Mazur had caused “bigger ripples” than any other case he had ever seen. But with no indication that an appeal has been lodged, “that is n

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