The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will announce its verdicts today on the charges brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority on human rights firm Leigh Day and three of its solicitors.
The firm, senior partner Martyn Day, equity partner Sapna Malik and solicitor Anna Crowther deny 19 charges.
The case has taken seven weeks to come to this point, with members of the tribunal spending the whole of this week considering their decision. If any charges are found proven, a sanctions hearing would follow.
The charges relate to the respondents’ conduct in handling claims against the British Army on behalf of Iraqi civilians. Claims of torture and unlawful killing were dismissed as false following a public inquiry in 2014.
Allegations against the firm and solicitors include personally endorsing claims in a 2008 press conference, late disclosure of a key document, disposal of a translation of that document, unlawful payments to a third party and not acting on the use of the word ‘bribe’ in three emails handled by the firm.
SDT set to give verdicts on Leigh Day and three lawyers
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