Maureen Celia Lloyd-Bainbridge
Employee
406924

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 12 January 2018

Published date: 30 January 2018

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Brynmawr Law Limited (closed)

Address(es): 74 King Street, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, NP23 4RG

Firm ID: 559035

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

In the matter of:

Maureen Celia Lloyd-Bainbridge, formerly of Brynmawr Law Limited, a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor:

The facts

At the relevant times Ms Lloyd-Bainbridge was undertaking work in the name of, or under the direction or supervision of, a solicitor at Brynmawr Law Limited.

Between August 2012 and August 2013 Ms Lloyd-Bainbridge made unauthorised withdrawals from the firm’s client account and, in so doing, acted dishonestly.

Finding

I find that Maureen Celia Lloyd-Bainbridge 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 her part of such a nature that in the opinion of the Society it would be undesirable for her to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways set out in the order below.

ORDER

To make a section 43 order that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Ms Lloyd-Bainbridge of this decision:

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

except in accordance with a Society permission.

This order is subject to a statutory right of review to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.