Nigel West

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Nigel has acted for solicitors facing SRA investigations and disciplinary proceedings for over 25 years. Many of the cases he defends involve allegations of lack of integrity and dishonesty, or breaches of the AML or Accounts rules, and he is regularly asked to assist partners and others in medium and large firms facing serious allegations which could have a long term impact on their careers or the reputation of their firms. He is conscious of the need for confidentiality and the need to keep clients (and his work) out of the limelight.

Before joining Weightmans in 2022, Nigel was a partner in the niche regulatory practice of RadcliffesLeBrasseur, where he headed the solicitors disciplinary team.

Nigel has acted as a Committee Member of the Law Society’s Regulatory Processes Committee and now acts as a Solicitors’ Representative on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Users Group.

He is the Co-author of “The Solicitors Handbook”, ‘The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal — law and practice’ and the Law Society’s book “SRA Investigations” (2024 edition). He is also a Contributing Editor for Cordery on Legal Services (as author of the section “How the SRA works”) and Atkins Forms and Precedents (as co author of the section on Legal Services), and the Cases Editor for The Law Society’s Legal Compliance Bulletin.