(unnamed respondent)

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

This was the Applicant's (Huseyin Arslan) application to the Tribunal to review the SRA Adjudicator's 25 November 2022 refusal to revoke a Section 43 Order imposed in January 2015. The original Order arose from a finding that the Applicant had provided false and misleading information to the SRA during an investigation, constituting a lack of integrity. The Tribunal, applying the review (not rehearing) standard from SRA v Arslan [2016] EWHC 2862 (Admin), found the Adjudicator had applied the correct test and the correct civil standard of proof, found no procedural impropriety or discrimination, and held the Adjudicator was entitled to conclude that the Applicant's post-Order qualifications did not remedy his lack of insight, remorse and rehabilitation. The application for review was dismissed and the Applicant was ordered to pay costs of £4,071.60.

Duties found breached:

• No baseless or threatened misconduct report
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Continued failure to recognise his conduct was wrong; lack of insight, remorse and rehabilitation
• Questioned the need to demonstrate rehabilitation and indicated he did not wish to engage with the SRA as a regulator
• Stated he did not accept any wrongdoing and described the High Court decision as biased and partial

Mitigating factors:

• No conduct issues for over 10 years
• Maintained good standing with professional associations
• Substantial post-Order qualifications and professional achievements (LPC, BTT/BPTC exemption, SQE2 exemption, called to the Bar, etc.)