Sylvia Harvey (Carr)

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

Sylvia Harvey, a solicitor's clerk, was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court in June 1993 of two counts of procuring/attempting to procure the execution of a valuable security by deception, having falsified her earnings and forged a letter from her employer in a mortgage application. She was sentenced to four months' imprisonment concurrent. The Law Society applied for a Section 43 order. The respondent admitted the allegation and consented. The Tribunal found the allegation substantiated and made a Section 43(2) order controlling her employment within the solicitors' profession, and ordered her to pay costs of £665.

Duties found breached:

• Cease acting on client perjury or disobedience

Aggravating factors:

• Offences involving dishonesty committed while employed as a clerk to a solicitor
• Used position as solicitor's clerk to falsify information to a Building Society for her own benefit

Mitigating factors:

• Previously of good character
• Highly thought of by employers; references praising her work and personality
• Admitted the facts and allegation and consented to the Order