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NLJ this week: How far is too far ‘without prejudice’?

21 March 2025
Issue: 8109 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Dispute resolution
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Abusive litigation tactics, or simply a solicitor doing their best for their client?

In this week’s NLJ, Clare Hughes-Williams, partner, and Megan Hill, solicitor, DAC Beachcroft, discuss the correspondence between former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor, Ashley Hurst and tax campaigner Dan Neidle, who was writing about Zahawi’s tax affairs.

Hurst was subsequently fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, which found he ‘improperly attempted to restrict’ Neidle.

Hughes-Williams and Hill consider the behavioural expectations on solicitors seeking to protect their client, and ask ‘where the line is to be drawn between aggressive litigation tactics which may be permissible in certain cases and misconduct’.

Issue: 8109 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Dispute resolution
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