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SRA investigates Giambrone Law partners over advice on Italian property deals

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As an ex-client of the defunct Giambrone Law LLP (which was finally wound up by HMRC) I agree with the above comment. There is no control of overseas firms who can operate in the UK with absolutely no oversight. It is totally unfair to properly regulated UK legal firms. Law firms should be treated like Financial Services firms. i.e. it should be illegal for non-UK firms to market in the UK unless they have passed the proper UK exams. In Italy there was a well known route to "qualification" where student Lawyers could pass exams by paying to sit in an "examination" where the examiner dictated the full answers to budding candidates. It is of liitle suprise that some of these "Lawyers" are not up to the same standards of UK trained Lawyers.

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31-Jan-2012

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10:52 pm

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