Peter Collins Maku-Kemi

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

Employee/consultant solicitor at Jesuis Solicitors handling immigration matters. Allegation 1.1 was withdrawn. On Allegation 1.2 the Tribunal found he submitted to the First-tier and Upper Tribunals that a provision of the Ugandan Penal Code (the 'reporting offence') had been enacted into law when it had not, misleading the tribunals; on Allegation 1.3 he misled the First-tier Tribunal about the date Client 3 received the Home Office notice to obtain an out-of-time appeal. The Tribunal found dishonesty proved on both allegations (breaches of Principles 1, 2, 4 and 6 for 1.2; Principles 1, 2 and 6 for 1.3). It rejected his 'blind reliance' and 'missing page' explanations and found no exceptional circumstances to avoid striking off. He was struck off and ordered to pay costs of £15,000 (reduced from £42,600 claimed as disproportionate).

Duties found breached:

• Integrity
• Uphold public trust in the profession
• Act in the client's best interests

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty found on three occasions of misleading the First-tier and Upper Tribunals
• Misled tribunals in the context of vulnerable asylum/immigration clients
• Repeated erroneous submission before Upper Tribunal after it was erroneous below
• Attempts to shift blame onto colleague (PM) and assistant
• Inconsistent and evolving accounts; found to be an unimpressive witness

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary history
• Admitted the factual matrix, breaches and recklessness (though not dishonesty)