By Monidipa Fouzder2021-04-07T12:05:00+01:00
An employment tribunal has awarded a total of just over £37,000 in compensation to five solicitors, an apprentice solicitor and a legal assistant who brought claims against collapsed law firm network Kingly Solicitors Limited.
The national firm, which acquired a number of High Street practices across the country since 2016, was effectively closed by a Solicitors Regulation Authority intervention in August. The business was placed into voluntary liquidation at the end of September.
Yesterday the tribunal published separate judgments for eight claims brought against Kingly Solicitors Ltd t/a Coles Solicitors (in voluntary liquidation) that were heard together before Employment Tribunal Judge Newburn on 1 February and decided on 1 March.