Mojisola Adetokunbo Adesola Kareem

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

Sole practitioner whose firm was in serious financial difficulty failed to pay professional disbursements out of monies received and used client funds (eight cheques totalling £8,951.51) to settle her own firm's liabilities. She committed multiple Solicitors Accounts Rules breaches, failed to remedy them, delivered Accountant's Reports late or not at all, gave a misleading answer (denying a civil judgment) on a PII proposal form, breached an undertaking to pay an expert, and failed to co-operate with the SRA investigation. Applying Twinsectra, the Tribunal found her conduct dishonest. She was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs subject to detailed assessment.

Duties found breached:

• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
• Diligence and timeliness
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues
• No conflict between current clients
• No improper use of client money
• No taking unfair advantage
• Prompt accounting and return of money

Aggravating factors:

• Use of client money for own benefit, admitted to investigation officer
• Failure to remedy breaches identified by accountants and allowing further similar breaches
• Third parties suffered loss and judgments against her were ignored
• Deliberately misleading statement on PII proposal form
• Failure to co-operate with the SRA and non-attendance at the hearing
• Breaches at the serious end of the scale; firm intervened into