The High Court’s judgment in Ashley Hurst v Solicitors Regulation Authority overturning a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal sanction could have wider application, a solicitor’s appeal over a 12-month suspension has heard.
Scott Halborg, a partner at Leicester firm Deals & Disputes Solicitors LLP, was suspended from practice for 12 months and ordered to pay £30,630 costs in April last year after he was found to have failed to conduct litigation in accordance with his duties as an officer of the court. He appealed the SDT’s finding and sanction arguing the SRA’s case was ‘entirely misconceived’.