Adam Kemeny

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

Adam Kemeny, a solicitor admitted in 2016, deliberately failed to pay rail fares totalling approximately £650 between 7 July and 17 October 2017, evading payment on 105 occasions during his commute to work. After being caught by a ticket inspector, he was dismissed by his firm and self-reported to the SRA. The Tribunal found breaches of Principles 2 and 6 proved and made an express finding of dishonesty under the Ivey test. With no exceptional circumstances established, the Tribunal struck him off the Roll and ordered costs of £3,082.26.

Duties found breached:

• Integrity
• Uphold public trust in the profession

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty alleged and proved
• Misconduct involved commission of a criminal offence (fare evasion)
• Deliberate and calculated, repeated conduct over a three-month period (105 occasions)
• Respondent knew or ought to have known conduct breached obligations to public and reputation of profession

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary findings
• Made good the loss to the train operator (repaid fares and Govia's costs)
• Voluntarily self-reported to the Regulator
• Made open and frank admissions and cooperated with the Applicant and Govia