Omar Azim
Employee
654391

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 10 March 2021

Published date: 19 March 2021

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Kennedys Law LLP

Address(es): 25 Fenchurch Avenue, LONDON EC3M 5AD

Firm ID: 534581

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

IN THE MATTER OF Omar Azim of Ilford, England, a person who is or was involved in a legal practice but is not a solicitor

THE FACTS

Between 15 February 2016 and 19 December 2017 Mr Azim was employed as a facilities assistant at Kennedys Management Service Limited (KMSL). On or around 27 November 2017, Mr Azim misappropriated property belonging to another for his own purpose and use. KMSL dismissed Mr Azim for gross misconduct on 19 December 2017.

FINDING

Omar Azim, who is not a solicitor, was involved in a legal practice and has occasioned or been a party to an act or default which involved such conduct on his part that it is undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways described in the order below.

ORDER

To make an order pursuant to section 43 that with effect from the date 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 the SRA’s permission.