Eylem
Kahraman
Employee
544703
Decision - Employee-related decision
Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (Section 43 / Section 99 order)
Outcome date: 8 March 2019
Published date: 14 April 2019
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: ADH Law Ltd
Address(es): Screenworks, G04, 22 Highbury Grove, Islington, London, N5 2EF.
Firm ID: 427398
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Disciplinary Decision
Reasons/basis
At the relevant time, Eylem Kahraman was employed as a trainee paralegal at ADH Law at Screenworks, G04, 22 Highbury Grove, Islington, London, N5 2EF.
On 22 December 2017 she was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of: Commit an act/series of acts with intent to pervert the course of public justice.
On 19 January 2018, she was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £170.
Other information
Finding
I find that Ms Kahraman 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 been convicted of a criminal offence which is such 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 described in the order below.
Order
To make a section 43 order that with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Ms Kahraman of this decision:
- no solicitor shall employ or remunerate her in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
- no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the solicitor’s practice;
- no recognised body shall employ or remunerate her;
- no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the business of that body;
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit her to be a manager of the body; and Page 9 of 9 Official sensitive
- 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.