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A Lancashire-based personal injury solicitor has been struck off the register by the Solicitor's Disciplinary Tribunal (DPT) after admitting various breaches.
The 65-year-old personal injury solicitor confessed to the tribunal that in 2008 he denied a young personal injury claimant 100 percent compensation by helping himself to the young man's damages fund in order to pay sums to other clients.
Extreme tardiness seems to be at the root of many of the breaches; at least twice the solicitor neglected to submit claims before the prescribed time-limit. He then tried to cover his tracks by paying off the forgotten clients with sums stolen from the young man's damages trust.
The solicitor's colleagues were unaware of the breaches; he told one workmate that he obtained a client a settlement when he had in fact illegally obtained £5,000 in order to fool the claimant into thinking he had secured a payout.
While accepting his breaches, the personal injury solicitor said he had been both isolated and under "considerable stress with which he had been unable to deal" when he had committed the breaches.
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