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Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal):

Anthony Fuller
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10519-2010
  • Admitted 1988
  • Hearing 12 December 2011
  • Reasons 26 January 2012

The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.

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Andrew Jonathan Crossley
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10726-2011
  • Admitted 1991
  • Hearing 16 January 2012
  • Reasons 6 February 2012

The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for two years to commence on the 16 January 2012.

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Rodney William Noon
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10696-2011
  • Admitted 1985
  • Hearing 26 January 2012
  • Reasons 20 February 2012

The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £9,000.

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Malik Mohammed Nazeer and Malik Mohammed Saleem
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10773-2011
  • Hearing 18 January 2012
  • Reasons 6 February 2012

After amendment and withdrawal of certain allegations, the second respondent no longer faced any allegations. The SDT ordered that the first respondent (admitted 1997) should pay a fine of £5,000.

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Rosemary Anne Akinyi Okeno and Martyns Gogo Martyns
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10524-2010
  • Admitted 2005
  • Hearing 23 January 2012
  • Reasons 3 February 2012

By a decision of the SDT on 6 September 2011, the case of the second respondent was ordered to be severed from the case of the first respondent.

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Kanthia Kangesu Pathmanathan, Pratheepan Pathmanathan, Pathmajani Chandrasekaram and Srirangan Balakumar
Thursday, 17 May 2012
  • Application 10628-2010
  • Hearing 24-28 October 2011, 18 January 2012
  • Reasons 22 February 2012

The SDT ordered that the first respondent (admitted 1987) should pay a fine of £2,000; that the second respondent (admitted 2004) should pay a fine of £2,000; and that the third respondent (admitted 2000) should pay a fine of £20,000.

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Maryam Eslamdoust, Wale Oworu and Saiqa Sarwar
Friday, 13 April 2012
  • Application 10737-2011
  • Hearing 23-25 November 2011
  • Reasons 9 January 2012

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal made no order on the allegation that it was undesirable for the respondents to be involved in a legal practice in one or more ways mentioned in section 43(1)(A) of the Solicitors Act 1974 as amended by the Legal Services Act 2007, in that they had failed to act with integrity by inappropriately charging taxi fares and meals to client files, while they were employed as paralegals by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

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Andrew Thomas Watson
Friday, 13 April 2012
  • Application 10756-2011
  • Admitted 1994
  • Hearing 9 November 2011
  • Reasons 22 December 2011

The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £4,000.

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Doreen Elizabeth Powell, David Malcolm Bannar-Martin and Desmond James Corlis
Friday, 13 April 2012
  • Application 10694-2011
  • Hearing 23 November 2011
  • Reasons 5 January 2012

The SDT ordered that the first respondent (admitted 2004) should be struck off the roll; that the second respondent (admitted 1971) should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for two years to commence on 23 November 2011; and that the third respondent (admitted 1994) should be struck off the roll.

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