Lawson Taylor Solicitors Ltd
314 Daisyfield Business Centre, Appleby Street, Blackburn , BB1 3BL
Recognised body
613890

Outcome: Intervention

Outcome date: 5 December 2022

Published date: 5 December 2022

No detail provided:

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

To intervene into the recognised body, Lawson Taylor Solicitors Ltdn.

The Panel was satisfied that grounds of intervention existed under paragraph 32(1)(d) of Schedule 2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985, namely that there was reason to suspect dishonesty on the part of Mr Macknight as a manager of the firm in connection with the firm’s business.
The Panel was satisfied that grounds of intervention existed under paragraph 32(1)(a) of Schedule 2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985, namely that Dominic Leon Macknight, as a manager of the firm, and the firm itself, had failed to comply with the rules applicable to them as a manager of the firm, and the firm itself by virtue of section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (as amended) - paragraph 32(1)(a) of Schedule 2 of that Act.

Sean Joyce of Stephensons Solicitors LLP, Wigan Investment Centre, Waterside Drive, Wigan, WN3 5BA has been appointed as the intervening agent.

For enquiries please call 0333 321 4409 or email interventions@stephensons.co.uk