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A solicitor who had sex with a drunk junior colleague, which a tribunal found he did not initiate, has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £200,000 in costs amid calls his case be referred to the police. Ryan Beckwith, 41, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, brought the profes

The standard of proof applying to solicitors subject to misconduct proceedings has been lowered from "beyond all reasonable doubt" to a "balance of probabilities" following approval from the regulator. The Legal Services Board supported an application from the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT)