Richard Gregory Barca

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

Richard Gregory Barca, a solicitor and manager at Wilson Barca LLP, faced allegations that he allowed misleading submissions to be made at a January 2019 SDT hearing (giving the impression that lending money to a client was a one-off/isolated incident) and that he entered into financial arrangements with clients giving rise to own interest conflicts. He made limited admissions. The Tribunal found breaches of Principle 6 in respect of Allegation 1.1 (Clients P, I and J) and Allegation 1.2 (significant risk of own client conflict with Clients A, B, C, K and M). The Tribunal found Clients K and M were clients. The Tribunal dismissed the allegations of dishonesty and (alternatively) recklessness, and did not find a lack of integrity (Principle 2). A financial penalty of £30,000 was imposed.

Duties found breached:

• No conflict between current clients