Andrew James Malone

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

Duties found breached:

• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues
• No conflict between current clients

Aggravating factors:

• Failure to cooperate with both the SLCC and the Law Society over a period of several months despite repeated deadlines and extensions
• Repeatedly acknowledged correspondence and promised responses but failed to provide them

Mitigating factors:

• 36 years in practice with no previous disciplinary findings
• Cooperated with the Fiscal during these proceedings
• Entered into an extensive Joint Minute
• Expressed remorse and regret
• Little chance of repetition (no longer practising, name off Roll, no intention to practise again)
• Conduct occurred during a difficult period winding down sole practice after the pandemic, with mental health difficulties
• Files were not in his possession having been passed to another firm