By Jemma Slingo2021-01-25T14:50:00+00:00
A disciplinary tribunal has struck off a prominent City solicitor after finding he made dishonest transfers amounting to almost £400,000.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found all allegations against Tony Norman Guise proven, together with breaches of principles and account rules. They also found that he acted dishonestly.
Guise, a former chair of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN) and former member of the Law Society s Civil Justice Committee, was accused of transferring £353,000 out of his firm’s client account without authorisation between 2014 and 2015. The money formed more than half of a former client’s divorce settlement.
By Jemma Slingo2021-01-21T16:02:00+00:00
A City solicitor accused of transferring £350,000 of client money without authorisation has claimed an ex-client fabricated emails and text messages in order to incriminate him.
Tony Norman Guise, ex-chair of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN) and a former member of the Law Society civil justice committee, was cross-examining the former client before the Solicitors Discplinary Tribunal. Guise is accused by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of making dishonest and unauthorised transfers between 2014 and 2015.
Guise told the tribunal that the client, identified as Client A , had agreed to invest the money in his digital litigation start-up. Client A denied this, saying he ‘desperately needed the funds to rebuild my life’. The money formed part of a £600,000 divorce settlement.