Sibel Simsek
Employee
567030

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 20 October 2019

Published date: 1 November 2019

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: London Solicitors LLP

Address(es): Unit 3, Fountayne Business Centre, Broad Lane, Tottenham, London N15 4AG

Firm ID: 512834

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

In the matter of:

Sibel Simsek, a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor, and who is now subject to section 43 Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended).

The Facts:

Between January 2016 and September 2016 Mrs Simsek worked as a consultant paralegal at London Solicitors LLP at Unit 3 Fountayne Business Centre, Broad Lane Tottenham London N15 4AG.

During her time there she created four letters with the intention of misleading her client into believing she had submitted an application to the Home Office.

Her conduct was found to be dishonest.

FINDING

I find that Sibel Simsek 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 Sibel Simsek 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;
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.