Samuel Onyebuchi Obiorah
Employee
514879

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 15 August 2018

Published date: 7 October 2018

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: TTS Solicitors

Address(es): 1-4 The Parade, Monarch Way, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7HT

Firm ID: 468282

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

The following findings were made against Samuel Onyebuchi Obiorah (also known as Samuel Onyebuchi and Samuel Obiora):

1. Mr Obiorah left confidential client papers in the front garden of his flat in Dagenham, Essex.
2. This conduct breached Principles 6 and 7 of the SRA Principles 2011 and failed to achieve outcome 4.1 of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011.

The conduct occurred while Mr Obiorah was employed as a consultant in Mental Health Act cases by TTS Solicitors of 1-4 The Parade, Monarch Way, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7HT.

Mr Obiorah’s current whereabouts are unknown and he did not co-operate with the SRA investigation.

Mr Obiorah was given a written rebuke, ordered to pay a financial penalty of £2,000 and to pay the SRA’s costs of £600 in investigating the matter.

Section 43 Order

In the matter of:

Samuel Onyebuchi Obiorah (also known as Samuel Onyebuchi and Samuel Obiora), a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor, is now subject to section 43 Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended).

The facts

Mr Obiorah left confidential papers relating to vulnerable clients in the front garden of his flat in Dagenham, Essex. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Finding

I find that Mr Obiorah 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 set out in the order below.

Order

To make a section 43 order that with effect from the date of the publication 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.