Farrukh Najeeb Husain
Allegation / charges
Breaches, Lack of Integrity, SRA Principles 2019
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found three allegations proved against Farrukh Najeeb Husain on the balance of probabilities. Between September 2020 and June 2021 he used his public Twitter account to post antisemitic, inappropriate and offensive comments (Allegations 1.1 and 1.2), including tweets directed at Simon Myerson KC and journalist Hugo Rifkind using Nazi terminology, references to Jews as 'pigs', and antisemitic tropes. In December 2022 he sent offensive emails to the SRA's investigating officer (Allegation 1.3). The Tribunal applied an objective test using a synthesis of definitions of antisemitism (including the IHRA definition) and found certain tweets to be antisemitic, demonstrating hatred or prejudice towards Jews. It found breaches of Principles 2, 5 and 6. No dishonesty was alleged or found. The Tribunal assessed culpability and harm as very high, found no genuine insight or contrition, and concluded that nothing less than striking off would protect the public and the reputation of the profession. The Respondent was struck off the Roll. Although the Applicant's costs of £40,708.08 were found reasonable, no order for costs was made given the Respondent's extremely limited means. The Respondent's appeal to the High Court was dismissed in 2025.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Misconduct was deliberate, calculated and repeated over a period of at least 9 months
- Misconduct motivated by and/or demonstrated hostility based on protected characteristics of race and religion
- Bullying element with puerile and crude sexual references
- Knew or ought reasonably to have known conduct was in material breach of obligations
- Showed no genuine insight or contrition (described his apology as a 'British apology')
- Identified himself as a solicitor, lending professional gravitas to his offensive posts
Mitigating factors:
- Hitherto unblemished disciplinary record
- Lost his job at Bevan Brittan as a result of the conduct