Myles McNulty

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

Myles McNulty, admitted 1994, was convicted in June 2001 of 13 counts of theft and 2 counts of falsifying documents of a company being wound up, and sentenced to 45 months imprisonment. Over six years working as a salaried solicitor he intercepted Legal Services Commission monies, diverted client funds and made double claims, stealing about £367,500. He admitted the allegation. The Tribunal found dishonesty and ordered him struck off the Roll and to pay £1,000 costs.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations

Aggravating factors:

• Seriousness at the upper end of the scale
• Theft of approximately £367,500 dissipated
• Massive breach of employer's trust and abuse of role as solicitor/officer of the court over six years
• Offences committed during practice as a solicitor

Mitigating factors:

• Admitted the allegation
• Agreed with the sentencing judge's remarks
• Sought to resolve the disciplinary matter simply and cheaply