Raja Shazad Khan & Colin Anthony Goldring

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

Colin Anthony Goldring, an unadmitted consultant/trainee at Justice Solicitors Ltd (trading as Tangent Law), admitted multiple breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules, Code of Conduct and Principles arising from high-value motorcar transactions for Client A (improper banking facility, paying away up to €8,310,780 without consent, AML/due diligence failures) and falsely endorsing a settlement agreement for Client B as a 'relevant independent legal advisor'. The SRA was given leave to withdraw its sole dishonesty allegation (relating to Client B) following his belated explanation and medical evidence, the matter being treated as a lack of integrity rather than dishonesty. The Tribunal approved an Agreed Outcome imposing a section 43 order (no fine) and ordered him to pay £13,000 in costs.

Duties found breached:

• AML and crime-prevention compliance
• Honour professional undertakings
• No conflict between current clients
• No improper use of client money
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Conduct related to considerable financial loss to a client (Client A paid €9,400,000 and most was not returned)
• Harm to the reputation of the legal profession
• Multiple breaches over a substantial period (June 2016 to April 2018)
• Initial failure to engage with the SRA's investigation

Mitigating factors:

• Exemplary/previous good character with no dishonesty found
• Effectively an unadmitted clerk who was never provided the promised training contract
• Culpable failure to supervise admitted by the First Respondent (Mr Goldring based in London, supervising solicitor was very sick and later died)
• Material events occurred several years prior with nothing known to his detriment since
• Medical evidence that life issues affected his judgement and ability to resist aggressive/demanding clients
• No personal gain from the admitted breaches
• Full engagement with Tribunal and SRA after proceedings issued, full admissions and consent to section 43 order
• Complete insight and apology offered
• Only one isolated instance of conduct lacking integrity (allegation 2.4), unrelated to the Client A matter

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["review_dishonesty_finding_cue_present"]