Lewis
Green
Employee
7005770
Decision - Employee-related decision
Outcome: Control of non-qualified staff (Section 43 / Section 99 order)
Outcome date: 13 September 2022
Published date: 27 October 2022
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Browne Jacobson LLP
Address(es): Mowbray House, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham, NG2 1BJ
Firm ID: 401163
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
IN THE MATTER OF: Lewis Trevor Green of Nottingham
A person who is or was involved in a legal practice but is not a solicitor
THE FACTS
Mr Green was employed as a technical engineer at Browne Jacobson LLP (the firm) between 7 October 2019 and 17 May 2021, when he was dismissed for gross misconduct. The firm is a recognised body.
On 3 February 2022, Mr Green was convicted of theft by an employee, relating to his theft of 38 iPhones and 10 laptops from the firm, with a combined value of approximately £23,000. Mr Green was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 15 months. He was required to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay costs of £340 and a victim surcharge of £156.
FINDING
Mr Green, who is not a solicitor, was involved in a legal practice and has been convicted of a criminal offence which is such 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 the letter or email notifying Mr Green of this decision:
- no solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
- no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor's practice;
- 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;
- no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and
- 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 prior written permission.