Claire Letitia Parry

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

Claire Letitia Parry, sole practitioner at CLP Care Funding Solicitor, failed to cooperate with the Legal Ombudsman (regarding a client complaint and directions to refund/compensate Mr P) and failed to comply with its directions between 2016 and 2023, and failed to cooperate with the SRA investigation between 2023 and 2024. The Tribunal proceeded in her absence and found both allegations proved on the balance of probabilities, save that it did not find a lack of integrity. Dishonesty was not alleged or found. Given the low harm, her non-practising status, personal difficulties and significant delay, the Tribunal imposed a reprimand and ordered £2,500 costs (reduced from the £7,219.15 claimed given her likely limited means).

Duties found breached:

• Cooperate openly with regulators

Mitigating factors:

• Hitherto good character with unblemished disciplinary record
• Low and limited harm
• No dishonesty, concealment or criminal activity
• Indications of difficult and possibly traumatic personal circumstances at the relevant time
• Significant delay in resolving matters; Respondent had not practised since 2017 and did not hold a practising certificate