John Damian Gaskell

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

Duties found breached:

• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

Mitigating factors:

• Suffered from depression (confirmed by GP medical report), which came to light during employer disciplinary proceedings
• Daughter had medical difficulties (consultant clinical psychologist report)
• Excellent character reference provided
• Open, honest and frank in dealing with the proceedings; admitted the allegations
• No loss to clients
• Gained nothing from his conduct
• Not a risk to the public
• No previous disciplinary sanctions
• Already dismissed from employment and held no practising certificate