Jude Ikenna Williams Nkwocha
Employee
418468

Decision - Employee-related decision

Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (Section 43 / Section 99 order)

Outcome date: 14 June 2017

Published date: 24 July 2017

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: K & S @ Law

Address(es): 133 Plumstead High Street, London, SE18 1SE

Firm ID: 425656

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Reasons/basis

In the matter of Mr Jude Ikenna Williams Nkwocha, a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor.

Section 43 Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended)

The Facts

Mr Nkwocha was found to have misappropriated money from a number of clients whilst working at Hardings Mitchell Solicitors (a trading name of Fadiga & Co) between January 2009 and November 2012 and at K & S @ Law Solicitors between March 2013 and May 2016. He was found to have acted dishonestly in relation to the conduct.

Finding

We find that Mr Nkwocha is or was involved in a legal practice (as defined by section 43 (1A) of the Solicitors Act 1974) but is not a solicitor and has occasioned or been a party to, with or without the connivance of a solicitor, an act or default in relation to a legal practice which involved conduct on his part of such a nature that in the opinion of the Society it would be undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways set out in the order below.

Order

To make a section 43 order that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Mr Nkwocha of this decision:

• (i) no solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his practice as a solicitor;
• (ii) no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor's practice;
• (iii) no recognised body shall employ or remunerate him;
• (iv) no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body;
• (v) no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
• (vi) no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to have an interest in the body

except in accordance with a Society permission.