Mazhar Ali
Badar
Registered foreign lawyer
656454
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 9 November 2021
Published date: 16 June 2022
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: MA Law Chambers Limited
Address(es): 711 Cranbrook Road Ilford IG2 6RJ
Firm ID: 629485
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
Outcome of SDT Hearing
This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which reaches its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Respondent. The Tribunal had certified that there was a case to answer.
On 9 November 2022, the SDT considered and approved an Agreed Outcome.
Mr. Badar was suspended from the Register of Foreign Lawyers for the period of 18 months to commence on the 9th day of November 2022.
The Tribunal further ordered that, upon the expiry of the fixed term of suspension referred to above, Mr Badar shall be subject to conditions imposed by the Tribunal as follows:
Mr Badar may not:
- Be a Head of Legal Practice/Compliance Officer for Legal Practice or a Head of Finance and Administration/Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration;
- Hold client money other than with leave of the Solicitors Regulation Authority;
- Be a signatory on any client account other than with leave of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
There be liberty to either party to apply to the Tribunal to vary the conditions set out above.
The SDT judgment will be available at www.solicitorstribunal.org.uk