Kheira Naeela
Bey
Employee
667808
Decision - Employee-related decision
Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (Section 43 / Section 99 order)
Outcome date: 9 June 2020
Published date: 6 July 2020
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Fragomen LLP
Address(es): 95 Gresham Street, London LONDON EC2V 7NA, England
Firm ID: 459836
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
S43 Control – Adjudicator’s decision for publication is copied below.
Reasons/basis
IN THE MATTER OF
Kheira Naeela Bey a person who is or was involved in legal practice but is not a solicitor.
FACTS
Kheira Naeela Bey was employed as a paralegal by Fragomen LLP at 1st Floor, 95 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NA between 17 December 2018 and 7 June 2019 when she was dismissed.
In May 2019 Kheira Naeela Bey wrote a number of emails to the Home Office making false and misleading representations.
It was found that Kheira Naeela Bey had acted dishonestly.
Kheira Naeela Bey is not currently working in a firm regulated by the SRA.
FINDINGS
I find that Kheira Naeela Bey 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 her part of such a nature that in the opinion of the Society it would be undesirable for her 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 her in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
- no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the solicitor’s practice;
- no recognised body shall employ or remunerate her;
- no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the business of that body;
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit her to be a manager of the body; and
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit her to have an interest in the body
except in accordance with the SRA’s permission.