Stephen Crouch

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

Stephen Crouch (called 1982) was found to have provided incorrect advice to a lay client on the mens rea for attempted murder, having failed to adequately research the point, which facilitated a guilty plea when the correct plea on instructions would have been not guilty. After the error was identified by Sir Brian Leveson during the client's appeal, Crouch failed to report his serious misconduct to the BSB (breach of rC65.7), and subsequently failed to respond to BSB correspondence requesting information (breach of rC64). The tribunal disbarred him and imposed fines of £200 and £500. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• Report serious misconduct of others
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues
• Not misrepresent regulated status

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=700"]