Peter Collins

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

Between 6 January 2014 and 3 August 2016, Peter Collins (called 1993, Gray's Inn) dishonestly failed to inform 4 King's Bench Walk Chambers of fees received in 32 public access cases and dishonestly failed to pay Chambers £4,236.00 he was legally liable to pay. On or about 18 March 2014 he produced/sent a false fee note to an instructing solicitor purporting to be from Chambers. He also failed to comply with the Public Access Rules in 28 cases by not notifying clients in writing of the rC125 matters. The 5-person Disciplinary Tribunal found dishonesty and disbarred him, with concurrent 3-month suspensions and suspension of his practising certificate from 22 May 2017.

Duties found breached:

• No conflict between current clients