The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has struck off a solicitor with 55 years experience for overcharging probate clients. Harold Anthony Newell qualified as a solicitor 1963. He had been a sole practitioner of TS Barkes & Son of Moreton-in-Marsh. The tribunal found that Mr Newell failed to provide client care letters or any written costs information […]
Continue readingA solicitor who took thousands of pounds in cash payments from clients and dishonestly failed to declare them to his firm has been struck off. A Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hearing was told that Andrew John Peters, who had been employed by Hertfordshire firm Martin Smith & Co, had a self-confessed drink problem and had admitted […]
Continue readingA lawyer who stole client money to fund a penniless conman who falsely claimed to be a multi-millionaire has been jailed for 30 months. Rose Egarr plundered £200,000 from her firm to give money to Michael Milner after she was conned by his claim to be an undercover detective with £3.3m in the bank. The […]
Continue readingA solicitor who made thousands of pounds worth of fraudulent legal aid claims has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). The SDT found that Drakens Mukoro tried to cover his tracks by creating fake attendance notes for mental health hearings that never took place. The tribunal said Mr Mukoro’s culpability was “of […]
Continue readingA solicitor who was convicted of fraudulently submitting false invoices for police station work to fund his cocaine habit has been struck off. Dominic John Peter Ingle had been working as a self-employed police station representative on behalf of firms in the Manchester/Lancashire area. When work dropped off in 2016, the solicitor could not afford […]
Continue readingA solicitor has been fined £10,000 and barred from working as a sole practitioner for allowing a misleading website to appear online falsely suggesting he ran an award-winning multi-national firm and failing to take it down when asked. The site claimed the firm was “award-winning”, had offices in London, and Cochin, India, as well as […]
Continue readingA solicitor who transferred over £64,500 of client account money to his personal bank account has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). Mark Anthony Whittaker was also found to have transferred £5,000 in client funds to his girlfriend, who lived in Romania. To try and cover his tracks, he described his girlfriend […]
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An immigration solicitor told a client an advocate’s fee was five times higher than it really was and pocketed the difference in an “appalling case” highlighted by a member of human rights organisation Justice’s working party on immigration and appeals. The report states that the working party member’s experience is “an extreme but far from […]
Continue readingA solicitor who used £500,000 of money in his firm’s client account to feed his gambling addiction has been struck off. Over a period of nearly five years, Kam Cheung Mak – who had been a partner at East London firm MKM Solicitors – made 204 transfers totalling £511,618 from client to office account and […]
Continue readingA dishonest solicitor who forged documents and stole clients’ mortgage payments after taking charge of a law firm has been jailed for seven years and six months. Andrew John Davies, 34, was jailed at Bolton Crown Court having pleaded guilty to 42 charges including fraud, forgery and money laundering at an earlier hearing. Davies embarked […]
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