Anthony Onassis
Employee
655393

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 28 February 2019

Published date: 4 April 2019

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Martin Shepherd Solicitors LLP

Address(es): 29 Southbury Road, Enfield, EN1 1YZ

Firm ID: 560729

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

In the matter of:

Anthony Rossides, a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor, is now subject to section 43 Solicitors Act 1974.

The Facts:

Anthony Rossides who is not a solicitor, was employed as a paralegal by Martin Shepherd Solicitors LLP between 24 February 2014 until his resignation on 6 February 2018.

During his employment, Mr Rossides instructed his private property company known as Landsight Property Services Ltd on client matters without their consent. He paid money from their client ledgers to the company for the work purportedly undertaken by the company.

Following his resignation Mr Rossides repaid the total amount of £6,111.01, which he had transferred on 11 matters, to the firm.

FINDING

I find that Mr Rossides 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 from the date of the letter or email notifying Mr Rossides 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; no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body;
4. no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
5. no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to have an interest in the body
6. except in accordance with a Society permission.