Phillip Joseph Labrum

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

The Respondent, a solicitor since 1988, was convicted on 9 July 2010 at St Albans Crown Court on eight counts including false accounting, obtaining money transfers by deception, making a false representation, perverting the course of justice and making a false instrument, all in connection with personal injury litigation he initiated as claimant. He was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment and ordered to pay £27,511.06 compensation. The SDT found the conviction (evidenced by a Certificate of Conviction) demonstrated he acted without integrity and diminished public trust, and involved dishonesty. The Respondent did not attend; his adjournment application was refused. He was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £2,880, not to be enforced without leave of the Tribunal given his limited means.

Duties found breached:

• No conflict between current clients

Aggravating factors:

• Convicted of eight counts involving dishonesty after a ten day trial
• Took advantage of his position as a solicitor of over 20 years
• Serious offences causing great damage to the reputation of the profession

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary matters
• Limited means/on state benefits