Robert David Bradley
Fitzgerald-Crisp
Employee
639733
Decision - Employee-related decision
Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (section 43 order)
Outcome date: 15 May 2020
Published date: 2 November 2020
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Travers Smith LLP
Address(es): 10 Snow Hill. London, EC1A 2AL
Firm ID: 489478
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION
In the matter of:
Robert David Bradley Fitzgerald-Crisp, 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:
In April 2019 Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp took steps to mislead his colleagues regarding an email he sent to his employer’s IT department.
His conduct was found to be dishonest.
FINDING
I find that Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp 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 immediate effect:
- no solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
- no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor’s practice;
- no recognised body shall employ or remunerate him;
- no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body;
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
- 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 an SRA permission.
Decision - Sanction
Outcome: Rebuke
Outcome date: 15 May 2020
Published date: 2 November 2020
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Travers Smith LLP
Address(es): 10 Snow Hill. London, EC1A 2AL
Firm ID: 489478
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
DISCIPLINARY DECISION FOR PUBLICATION
Robert David Bradley Fitzgerald-Crisp, who is not a solicitor, was employed as trainee solicitor by Travers Smith LLP at 10 Snow Hill London EC1A 2AL between 4 September 2017 and 2 September 2019.
In April 2019 Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp took steps to mislead his colleagues regarding his role in authorising access by a third party to one of the firm’s extranet.
Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp’s conduct was found to be dishonest and to have breached Principles 2 and 6 of the SRA Principles 2011.
Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp was made subject to an order pursuant to section 43(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974 (as amended). He was also given a written rebuke and directed to pay costs of £600.
Mr Fitzgerald-Crisp is not currently employed by a firm regulated by the SRA.