Nathaniel Bertrand Felton (J)

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

Duties found breached:

• Uphold public trust in the profession
• No conflict between current clients
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

Aggravating factors:

• Third appearance before the Tribunal (previous appearances 25 October 2007 and 17 December 2009)
• Previously admitted failure to deal with SRA in open, prompt and cooperative manner on 17 December 2009 - repetitive pattern of behaviour
• Complete disregard for the regulatory regime
• Failure to engage with the proceedings
• Caused at least one member of the public to suffer as a result of his conduct

Mitigating factors:

• Respondent had medical difficulties (though medical report not up to date)
• Individually the allegations were not the most serious; allegation 1.2 seen as something of a technical failure
• Respondent indicated he was in the process of closing his practice and intended to retire