(unnamed respondent)

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

Dr David Lanc, a former company director, complained to the Law Society about a solicitor (Second Respondent, Martin Nolan) who allegedly emailed confidential company documents to his personal address on his last day of employment. The Law Society's PCSC took no action on 28 January 2021 and the Appellant appealed to the Tribunal. Following a handling complaint, two issues were re-investigated by a differently constituted PCSC on 14 July 2022, which again took no action. The Appellant did not appeal that later decision. The Tribunal held the original decision under appeal had been superseded by the 14 July 2022 determination and was now defunct; the appeal was dismissed. No finding of any wrongdoing was made against the solicitor. The Appellant was found liable in expenses (also at an earlier procedural hearing of 1 November 2021 for failing to comply with directions).