Solicitor struck off over falsified decree absolute 19 February 2021 Divorce: The decree absolute that wasn’t A solicitor who led a client to believe he was divorced after she falsified a decree absolute has been struck off. Ebru Atas also admitted having the client pay her in cash, which she kept rather than give to her employer, as well as getting a legally aided client to pay fees he was not liable for into her personal bank account. Ms Atas was a paralegal and then, after qualifying in 2017, a solicitor at North London firm Kilic & Kilic. According to an agreed outcome between Ms Atas and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), she was sacked for gross misconduct in September 2019 when it came to light that she had demanded that a client in receipt of legal aid pay fees of £1,635 into her bank account – he thought he was paying the firm.