Gboyega
Okunniga
Solicitor
490922
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 20 May 2024
Published date: 21 May 2024
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Clifton Law Limited
Address(es): 139a Far Gosford Street, Coventry, West Midlands, England, CV1 5DY
Firm ID: 634436
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Gboyega Okunniga's practising certificate for 2023/2024 is subject to the following conditions:
- Mr Okunniga may act as a solicitor only as an employee, and only where the employment has first been approved by the SRA.
- Mr Okunniga shall not provide reserved or unreserved legal services on his own account under regulations 10.2(a) or (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.
- Mr Okunniga may not be a manager or owner of an authorised body.
- Mr Okunniga may not be a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or a compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body.
- Mr Okunniga may not act as a signatory to any client or office account and does not have the power to authorise payments or transfers from any client or office account.
In these conditions the terms are as defined in the SRA Glossary.
Reasons/basis
The above interim conditions are made under rule 3.2 of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, which states that at any stage an authorised decision maker may, pending a final decision by the SRA or the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, impose interim conditions on the practising certificate of a solicitor. We are satisfied that these conditions are necessary in the public interest or for the protection of the public.