Ashish Bhatia

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

The SRA brought two allegations against Mr Bhatia, a director at Bhatia Best Limited. Allegation 1.1 (that he discriminated against employee Miss Brown on grounds of pregnancy and maternity, breaching Principles 2, 6 and 9 and Outcome 2.1) was found NOT PROVED: while the Tribunal found Miss Brown was unfavourably treated, it was not satisfied the reason was her pregnancy/maternity. Allegation 1.2 (failure to notify the SRA of the Employment Tribunal judgment of 17 April 2019, breaching Principle 7 and Outcome 10.3) was PROVED, as Mr Bhatia knew he ought to have reported the matter and failed to do so. No express finding of dishonesty was made against Mr Bhatia. He was reprimanded and ordered to pay costs of £1,000.

Duties found breached:

• Disclose adverse law to the court
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report