Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 1
March
2012
Published date: 28
March
2012
Firm details
No detail provided
Outcome details
This outcome was reached
by SRA decision.
Decision details
To grant Mr Robert Lyon a practising certificate for the practice year 2011/2012 subject to the conditions that:
- he may act as a solicitor only in employment which has first been approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority;
- he is not a sole practitioner or manager or owner of a recognised body;
- Mr Lyon shall immediately inform any actual or prospective employer of these conditions and the reasons for their imposition;
- in this condition "manager" and "owner" are as defined in Chapter 14 of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011;
- Mr Lyon is not a signatory to any client or office account and,
- does not have the power to authorise electronic payments or transfers from any client or office account and Mr Lyon attends for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development a course on the Solicitors Handbook and provides confirmation of such attendance before he submits an application for his next practising certificate.
Reasons/basis
Mr Lyon is currently subject to Regulation 3.1[a][i],[b],[c],[f] & [k][i] of the SRA Practising Regulations 2011.
The conditions are imposed having regard to Regulation 3.1(c) of the SRA Practising Regulations 2011 and consider Mr Lyon to be unsuitable to engage in certain business arrangements, business associations or practising arrangments and that imposing a condition requiring Mr Lyon to obtain written approval before taking certain steps will, in the public interest, limit, halt or prevent a risk to clients, third parties or the public.
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Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 2
April
2013
Published date: 13
May
2013
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of
publication
Name: Bbh (Legal Services) Limited
Address(es):
Eastham Hall, Eastham Village, Wirral Merseyside CH62 0AF
Firm ID: 561550
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving
rise to outcome
Name: Slater Ellison
Address(es):
22-24 Broad Street, Bury Lancashire BL9 0DA
Firm ID: 76609
Outcome details
This outcome was reached
by SRA decision.
Decision details
To grant Mr Robert Christopher Lyon a practising certificate for 2012/2013 subject to the following conditions which are necessary, reasonable and proportionate in the public interest:
1. that Mr Lyon may practise as a solicitor, in employment, only;
2. that he is not a sole practitioner or sole director of a recognised body, licensed body or legal services body;
3. that he is not a manager of a recognised body, licensed body or legal services body,
4. Mr Lyon shall immediately inform any actual or prospective employer of these conditions and the reasons for their imposition;
5. In this condition “manager” and “owner” are as defined in Chapter 14 of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011;
6. he is not a signatory to any client or office account and does not have the power to authorise electronic payments or transfers from any client or office account.
Reasons/basis
The SRA publishes regulatory decisions when it considers it to be in the public interest. The Authorised Officer is satisfied, in accordance with the SRA’s publication policy criteria, in order to maintain confidence in the regulatory system and to demonstrate transparency in the SRA’s decision making process, that this decision should be published. The Authorised Officer is satisfied that none of the factors that would make publication inappropriate apply.
Mr Lyon is subject to Regulation 3.1 and 7.1 of the SRA Practising Regulations 2011.
These conditions are imposed having regard to the purposes set out in Regulation 7 of the SRA Practising Regulations 2011 and to the regulatory objectives contained in the Legal Services Act 2007 and the principles governing regulatory activities in section 28 of that Act.
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