Mandeep Sunny Singh Thandi

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

While a solicitor and director at Kenneth M. Barrow and Co Ltd, Mr Thandi provided his personal bank account details to Client A instead of the Firm's, receiving four payments intended as settlement of the Firm's fees. He did not open a file, kept the instructions 'off the books', and retained the funds (paying counsel's fees from his personal account to avoid detection). The Tribunal found his conduct deliberate and dishonest, expressly finding ordinary and decent people would consider it dishonest. The matter was resolved by agreed outcome on the papers. He was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £23,085.

Duties found breached:

• Honesty
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Conduct was dishonest
• He knew or ought to have known his conduct breached obligations to protect the public and reputation of the profession
• Attempted to conceal wrongdoing on more than one occasion
• Misconduct was deliberate, repeated and committed over a prolonged period of several months
• Risk of loss to the Firm of fees rightly payable
• Breach of a position of trust
• Experienced, senior solicitor aware of relevant Principles
• Acted for personal benefit by retaining the monies

Mitigating factors:

• Clean regulatory record with no prior disciplinary findings (not agreed by SRA)
• Experiencing significant personal difficulties during relevant period (not agreed by SRA)
• Isolated incident of misconduct (not agreed by SRA)
• Cooperated with the SRA's investigation (not agreed by SRA)