Guy Nicholas Hurst

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

Guy Nicholas Hurst, a solicitor admitted in 1997, was found to have, while at Eric Robinson Solicitors (2016-2017), provided his personal bank account details to two clients and received £2,000 from Client S and £5,000 from Client M for purported additional work into his personal account, without authorisation. While a consultant at Keystone Law (2023), he gave a false warranty that he was not subject to any SRA investigation, falsely assured the firm that the 2016 conduct was isolated, and misled the firm as to his reasons for requesting payment to his personal account. He also provided his personal account details to Client J and received £3,000. The Tribunal found all allegations proven on the balance of probabilities, including that the Respondent had been dishonest. The Respondent did not participate; the Tribunal proceeded in his absence. He was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay £6,282.50 in costs.

Duties found breached:

• Act in the client's best interests
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues
• No conflict between current clients
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank
• Prompt accounting and return of money