Sally Gandon

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

Sally Gandon, a locum solicitor in the family law department at Goodhand & Forsythe, falsified Person A's signature on a Notice of Severance during divorce proceedings on 11 August 2020 and sent it to Person A's husband, giving the misleading impression that Person A had signed it. The matter was resolved on the papers by Agreed Outcome. She admitted the allegation, including dishonesty and lack of integrity. The Tribunal found no exceptional circumstances and struck her off the Roll, ordering her to pay agreed costs of £3,304.

Duties found breached:

• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

Mitigating factors:

• Admitted the allegation