Alejandro Verdu de
Haro
Solicitor
466207
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 28 July 2024
Published date: 12 February 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Buckles Solicitors LLP
Address(es): Grant House, 101 Bourges Boulevard, Peterborough PE1 1NG
Firm ID: 419965
Firm or organisation at date of publication
Name: Whirlpool UK Appliances Limited
Address(es): Morley Way, Peterborough PE2 9JB
Firm ID: 498186
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which will reach its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Solicitor. The Tribunal has certified that there is a case to answer in respect of allegations which are or include that, while in practice as a Solicitor at Buckles Solicitors LLP :-
- Between 15 February 2017 and 18 June 2020 he made statements in correspondence to Client A and/or Client B ('his clients), which he knew or ought to have known were misleading, regarding the status of their claim against the defendant ('his clients claim');
- In a letter dated 28 July 2017 to the defendant in his clients' claim, he stated that his clients' claim against the defendant was with the Court pending processing and serving on the defendant, which was misleading and which he knew or ought to have known was misleading.
The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.