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Reported elsewhere:

"Paul Philip said the SRA would not be appealing to the High Court against the tribunal’s decision to strike off Ms Scott."[Why would it appeal, given that it brought the prosecution in the first place?]

"Mr Philip said: 'The tribunal came to a decision that clearly is their decision. Is it within a range of reasonable outcomes that the tribunal could have come to? As a lay observer, I would say it probably is, but that’s a matter for her to take up with her legal advisers.' [Ms Scott was unrepresented.]

“The issue for us is that here is a junior person in a law firm who has seen criminal activity and felt she couldn’t report it when she worked there, and blew the whistle when she didn’t work there. What would we have expected? We would have expected her as a solicitor of the High Court [sic - Senior Courts] to have reported the matter. She could have reported it to us on the basis of being a whistleblower. [Erm, what?] The consequences were severe, but that’s a matter for the tribunal, not for us.'

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