Ronald Grant Fulton

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

Duties found breached:

• Act in the client's best interests
• Competence
• Integrity
• No conflict between current clients
• No improper communication with the court

Aggravating factors:

• Signing a backdated self-proving (probative) deed is a very serious matter
• Conduct likely to seriously damage the reputation of the profession
• Reconstituted deed would mislead regardless of intention

Mitigating factors:

• First conduct finding before the Tribunal / previously blameless long career
• Cooperated with the Fiscal and Tribunal
• Pleaded guilty at an early stage
• Attended in person and accepted his shortcomings
• Complied with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission determination (waived own fee, paid new solicitor's fees ~£2,600, paid £5,000 compensation to Secondary Complainer)
• One-off / isolated incident
• Retired from practice with no intention to return; public not at risk
• No intent to deceive