Undiga Emuekpere
Solicitor
487197

Decision - Prosecution

Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

Outcome date: 10 July 2023

Published date: 21 December 2023

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Riverbrooke Solicitors Ltd

Address(es): 42 Brook Street, London W1K 5DB

Firm ID: 562650

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Reasons/basis

This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.  This is an independent Tribunal which will reach its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Solicitor.  The Tribunal has certified that there is a case to answer in respect of allegations which are or include that:- 

1. While acting as a solicitor at Riverbrook Solicitors Ltd , and in respect of the conduct of an Employment Tribunal Matter on behalf of a client, between around June 2018 and 8 August 2018, Mrs Emuekpere (the Second Respondent) and Mrs Chinwe Uzo Chikwendu (the First Respondent) prepared and/or caused to be prepared a grossly inflated bill of costs; 
2. While acting as a solicitor at the Firm, and in respect of a complaint made by a client to the Legal Ombudsman, between around 29 July 2017 and 30 January 2020, Mrs Emuekpere created an attendance note of a meeting with a client which was false and misleading to the extent that it suggested that the costs of the tribunal hearing were discussed during that meeting. 

The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.