Date
09 December 2004

Charges
The charge against Paul Massey of Hampshire was that he conducted himself in such a manner likely to bring disrepute upon the Institute of Legal Executives.

The particulars were:

That on 23 March 2004 the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal, constituted under the Solicitors’ Act 1974, ordered that as from 23 March 2004, no solicitor shall, except in accordance with permission in writing granted by the Law Society, for such a period and subject to such conditions as the Society may think fit to specify in the permission, employ or remunerate in connection with the practice as a solicitor, Paul John Massey of Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh, Southampton, a person who is or was a clerk to a solicitor. The Tribunal having found that Mr Massey:

Whilst employed or engaged by a solicitor did acts which compromised or impaired or were likely to compromise or impair: (a) the solicitor’s independence or integrity; (b) a person’s freedom to instruct a solicitor of his or her choice; (c) the duty of the solicitor to act in the best interests of the client; (d) the good repute of the solicitors’ profession contrary to Rule 1 of the Solicitors Practice Rules 1990.

Shared fees with a solicitor contrary to Rule 7 of the Solicitors Practice Rules 1990.

Was a party to the arrangement for the introduction of clients to a solicitor’s practice whose claims arose as a result of personal injury and who in the course of his business solicited or received contingency fees in respect of such claims contrary to Rule 9 of the Solicitors Practice Rules 1990.

Enforced a contingency agreement against a client of a solicitor’s practice and thereby acted where his interest conflicted with the interests of the client and himself or the solicitor’s practice.

Outcome
The charge was found proved.

Sanction
Mr Massey was excluded from membership and ordered to pay costs to ILEX.

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Date

09 August 2012

Allegation(s)

The allegation made against Mr Aziz was that he advertised and/or permitted to be advertised and/or permitted the continued advertisement of his services in circumstances he knew or ought to have known were inappropriate.

The particulars of the allegation were that Mr Aziz advertised the services he offered on his company’s website.  The services advertised included reserved legal activities that Mr Aziz was not authorised to provide independently.

Mr Aziz removed the website from the public domain during the IPS investigation.

Outcome

The Professional Conduct Panel found the website to be misleading and found the allegation proved.

Sanction

The Panel ordered that Mr Aziz provide an undertaking that he would notify CILEx of any launch of any website relating to the provision of legal services by him within 24 hours of such launch.

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