Solicitor who deliberately misled High Court struck off
12 May 2021
SDT: Solicitor was responsible for affidavit
A solicitor found by a High Court judge to have deliberately misled the court has now been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
The tribunal said it independently came to the same conclusion as Mr Justice Flaux (as he then was) did in 2015 about the conduct of Peter Gray, who at the time was a partner in the Dubai office of leading US firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Mr Gray was also found to have allowed leading counsel to make misleading submissions to the court and misled solicitors for the other side, Byrne & Partners (now PCB Byrne).
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The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
While in practice as a trainee solicitor at Stachiw Bashir Green Solicitors, the respondent had, in a conveyancing transaction regarding property 1, inappropriately signed replies to requisitions on title in the name of Janet Butterfield; and inappropriately signed a TR1 form in the name of Janet Butterfield; thereby breaching principles 2 and 6 of the SRA Principles 2011.
In a conveyancing transaction regarding property 2, she had inappropriately signed a certificate of title in the name of Janet Butterfield, thereby breaching principles 2 and 6.
In a conveyancing transaction regarding property 3, she had inappropriately signed a certificate of title in the name of Janet Butterfield, thereby breaching principles 2 and 6.