Hassan Ahmed
Employee
591218

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 4 May 2017

Published date: 6 July 2017

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Duncan Lewis Solicitors Ltd

Address(es): Spencer House, 29 Grove Hill Road, Harrow-On-The-Hill, Middlesex, HA1 3BN

Firm ID: 309586

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

In the matter of Hassan Ahmed formerly of Luton, Bedfordshire

A person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor.

Section 43 Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended)

Finding

Mr Ahmed was involved in a legal practice (as defined by section 43(1A) of the Solicitors Act 1974) but not as a solicitor and has occasioned or been a party to an act or default which involved such conduct on his part 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 described in the order below.

Order

To make an order pursuant to section 43(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Mr Ahmed of this decision:

1. no solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
2. no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor's practice;
3. no recognised body shall employ or remunerate him;
4. no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body;
5. no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
6. 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.