Thursday 25 September 2025
Hearing
| Before | Ms A Banks, Mrs L Murphy, Ms L Hawkins |
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| Chair | Ms A Banks |
| Legal Advisor | Mr R Dhanowa |
Cases
| Respondent | Steven David Simpkins |
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| Applicant | Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd | Case documents |
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| Type of hearing | Case Management Hearing |
| Nature of case | Breaches, Code of Conduct for Solicitors, REL's & RFL's 2019, Lack of Integrity, Solicitors' Accounts Rules, SRA Principles 2019 |
| Respondent | Sarah Louise Kearney |
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| Applicant | Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd |
| Type of hearing | Case Management Hearing (Hearing of Application in Private – Announcement of Outcome [if applicable] in public) |
| Nature of case | Breaches, Code of Conduct for Firms 2019, Code of Conduct for Solicitors, REL's & RFL's 2019, Lack of Integrity, SRA Principles 2019 |
| Respondent | Susilla Diane Mercer |
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| Applicant | Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd |
| Type of hearing | Case Management Hearing |
| Respondent | Sohail Bashir |
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| Applicant | Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd |
| Type of hearing | Case Management Hearing |
| Nature of case | Breaches, SRA Principles 2019 |
Location details
| Location: | Virtual Room 6 |
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| Zoom link: | Access now |
| Meeting ID: | 644 3754 6175 |
| Passcode: | 410159 |
This notice relates to hearings which will be held remotely. Please do not attend as you will not be able to access the hearing from the Tribunal’s office.
To ensure smooth running of the hearing:
- Please ensure you turn off your camera and mute your microphone when joining the hearing
- You are not permitted to make an audio or video recording of the hearing without the Tribunal’s permission, and you must not take screen shots or still photographs of the hearing.
- Live tweeting is not permitted during the hearing and the Tribunal reserves the right not to readmit you to the hearing if live tweeting is discovered.
- Any recording request will be provided in audio format only after the hearing.
If any part of the hearing takes place in private you will be immediately placed in a waiting room, until public access to the hearing resumes.