Anthony Alfred Parker
Employee
400170

Decision - Employee-related decision

Outcome: Approval of employment (section 43)

Outcome date: 31 May 2018

Published date: 16 July 2018

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: GGP Law Limited

Address(es): The Beehive, 11a Victoria Square, Aberdare, CF44 7LA

Firm ID: 613726

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

Fine, costs and a Section 43 order

Reasons/basis

Anthony Alfred Parker is employed as a police station representative at GGP Law Limited whose head office is at The Beehive, 11a Victoria Square, Aberdare, CF44 7LA.

During his employment he:

• made an offensive and sexist comment to a colleague;
• sent a lewd and offensive email to another colleague;
• sent confidential client information to his personal email address; and
• while absent from the office, accessed his work emails and permanently deleted a number of emails without authority and against an express instruction not to do so.

Mr Parker was found to have acted in breach of Principles 2, 6, 7 and 9 of the SRA Principles 2011 and to have acted dishonestly.

Mr Parker was issued with a written rebuke. He was directed to pay a penalty of £2,000 and costs of £600.

Other information

IN THE MATTER OF Anthony Alfred Parker, a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor.

The facts

Anthony Alfred Parker is employed as a police station representative at GGP Law Limited whose head office is at The Beehive, 11a Victoria Square, Aberdare, CF44 7LA.

During his employment he:

• made an offensive and sexist comment to a colleague;
• sent a lewd and offensive email to another colleague;
• sent confidential client information to his personal email address; and
• while absent from the office, accessed his work emails and permanently deleted a number of emails without authority and against an express instruction not to do so.

He was found to have breached Principles 2, 6, 7 and 9 of the SRA Principles 2011 and to have acted dishonestly.

Finding

I find that Mr Parker is or was involved in a legal practice (as defined by section 43 (1A) of the Solicitors Act 1974) but is not a solicitor and has occasioned or been a party to, with or without the connivance of a solicitor, an act or default in relation to a legal practice which involved conduct on his part of such a nature 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 a section 43 order that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Mr Parker 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.

THIS ORDER IS SUBJECT TO AN INTERNAL RIGHT OF APPEAL AND A STATUTORY RIGHT OF REVIEW TO THE SOLICITORS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL.