SDT & SRA interventions – Page 24
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Exclusive: Struck-off junior files appeal with pro bono help
Claire Matthews says she wants to highlight mental health issues in the legal profession.
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Lawyers make pro bono appeal offer to struck-off briefcase junior
Hunt is on to trace former junior lawyer who was banned by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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Delay Baker McKenzie case until autumn, SDT urged
Unfair for final respondent to give evidence via video link, Jonathan Laidlaw QC tells tribunal.
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Baker McKenzie case returns to tribunal - via Zoom
Plans being made for most SDT cases in the coming weeks to be heard remotely.
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Junior solicitor banned for lies about briefcase left on a train
Practitioner had been qualified for less than a year when she lied to her firm about what had happened to sensitive documents.
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Solicitor who cashed £4,700 into personal account struck off
Tribunal found the solicitor’s conduct was a ‘complete departure from the integrity and probity required from solicitors’.
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Tribunal clears partner alleged to have patted colleague’s bottom
Judgment concludes Person A was ‘prone to exaggeration and embellishment'.
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Owner turned ‘Nelsonian blind eye’ to dodgy PI claims
Solicitor struck off and ordered to pay £55,000 after putting referrers’ interests above those of his clients.
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Seeing ‘Person A’
A record number of sexual harassment and assault cases came before the SDT in 2019, with more promised in 2020. Is this tribunal the proper forum for these cases and how is it coping in what is unfamiliar territory? Eduardo Reyes reports
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Beckwith to appeal SDT ruling
Solicitor for former Freshfields partner confirms grounds to appeal were filed last Wednesday.
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Retiring solicitor took on new matters despite pledge to shut down
Colin Grooms was also found to have failed to co-operate with the legal ombudsman over a client complaint.
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Four months on, SDT publishes Beckwith judgment
Solicitors Regulation Authority claimed £343,957 in costs, which tribunal reduced to £200,000.
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Veteran solicitor sorry after diverting £84k to shore up ailing firm
John Leonard Turner offers wholehearted apology ahead of being struck off for dishonesty.
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Solicitor who refused penniless asylum seeker legal aid struck off
The tribunal found the solicitor had ‘taken advantage’ of an ‘inherently vulnerable’ client.
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Tribunal hits SRA for costs after ‘shambolic’ prosecution
Regulator ordered to pay solicitor Nabeel Sheikh’s £63,000 costs after failed attempt to prosecute.
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Solicitor struck off over Norwegian harassment convictions
Practitioner claimed not to know of duty to report.
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Solicitor who vanished after taking £250k of client money struck off
Nicholas Paul Tsioupras left trainee to ‘pick up the pieces’ after withdrawing over a quarter of a million pounds from the client account.
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£20,000 fine for solicitor duped by woman impersonating client’s ex-wife
Andrew James Daverson ‘failed to carry out basic documentary identification’, tribunal hears.
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Solicitor could not manage practice on legal aid payments
Veteran criminal defence practitioner accepts mistakes and says he will now leave the profession.
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Long-serving solicitor fined for attaching wrong map to application
Lesley Charne Seifert, who was admitted over 40 years ago, was ordered to pay £3,000.