Daniel Lumley
Employee
661424

Decision - Employee-related decision

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

Outcome date: 10 February 2021

Published date: 18 March 2021

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Gowling WLG (UK) LLP

Address(es): 4 More London Riverside London, SE1 2AU, England

Firm ID: 382961

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

IN THE MATTER OF: Daniel Lumley of Birmingham, England, a person who is or was involved in a legal practice but is not a solicitor.

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.

Reasons/basis

THE FACTS

Between 19 October 1998 and 16 October 2018 Mr Lumley was employed as a travel assistant within the Business Services Team at Ingleby Services, a company wholly owned by Gowling WLG (UK) LLP.

Between January 2017 and June 2017, Mr Lumley received and cashed cheques totalling £490.80 that was monies due to Gowling WLG (UK) LLP.

Gowling WLG (UK) LLP dismissed Mr Lumley for gross misconduct on 16 October 2018.

FINDING

Daniel Lumley, who is not a solicitor, is or 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.