A law firm director has been charged by the SRA over allegations that she sent legal threats to schools and doctor surgeries during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lois Bayliss, the sole director of Broad Yorkshire Law based in Sheffield, is alleged to have improperly sought to have relied upon her standing and role as a solicitor.
The SRA alleged in its prosecution notice that over two-and-a-half weeks in February 2022, she sent letters to up to 450 individuals at up to 247 schools and GP surgeries threatening that recipients would face criminal and/or civil liability.
Those proceedings, it is alleged she said, would follow if the school or surgeries required face-coverings and carried out routine lateral flow tests for schoolchildren, or if they facilitated children receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. It is alleged by the SRA that these threats were misleading.
The allegations are subject to a hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.
The Gazette has attempted to contact Bayliss, who was admitted as a solicitor in 2006. Her firm specialises in personal injury and was incorporated in 2011.
