Mohamed Saleem Raja
Prohibited
This person is not a solicitor. They are in this register because we have prohibited law firms we regulate from employing them.
- Prohibited
- From 09/10/2019.
- ID number
- 661561
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DECISION HISTORY
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Decision - Employee-related decision
Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (Section 43 / Section 99 order)
Outcome date: 9 October 2019
Published date: 13 November 2019
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Outcome details
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Adjudicator's decision
Reasons/basis
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE MATTER OF Mohamed Raja whose last known address was in Walthamstow, London.
A person who was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor SECTION 43 SOLICITORS ACT 1974 (AS AMENDED)
The Facts
On 28 November 2018, Mr Raja submitted a fraudulent expense claim to his employer, BDB Pitmans LLP. He subsequently altered email correspondence to conceal his actions and then denied any wrongdoing when questioned by the firm. The firm dismissed Mr Raja for gross misconduct on 29 November 2018.
He is not currently employed by an SRA regulated firm.
It was found that Mr Raja’s conduct was dishonest and breached SRA Principles 2 and 6.
Mr Raja was made subject to an order pursuant to section 43(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended) and was ordered to pay the SRA's costs of £600 in investigating this matter.
FINDING
Mr Raja, who is not a solicitor, was involved in a legal practice and has occasioned or been a party to an act or default which involved such conduct on his part that it is undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways described in the order below.
ORDER
Final Decision
To make an order pursuant to section 43 that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Mr Raja of this decision:
- no solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
- no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor's practice;
- no recognised body shall employ or remunerate him;
- no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body;
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
- 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.