Boon Low

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

The Respondent, a sole principal whose firm closed in February 2010, was found to have committed three disciplinary breaches: policy default for failing to pay a £7,399.43 professional indemnity insurance premium to the ARP, failing to fulfil an undertaking to pay WS & Co's costs of £2,800 plus VAT, and failing to respond to SRA enquiries. He did not attend and service was effected by substituted service via Law Society Gazette advertisement. Given his history of misconduct (two prior appearances) and the seriousness of the allegations, the Tribunal ordered that he be struck off the Roll and pay costs of £4,000, not to be enforced without leave of the Tribunal. No express finding of dishonesty was made in this decision.

Duties found breached:

• Professional indemnity insurance
• Honour professional undertakings
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

Aggravating factors:

• Third appearance before the Tribunal; two previous disciplinary matters
• Persistent failure to correct matters brought to his attention by his regulator
• Had outstanding ARP premium and unfulfilled undertaking known before his second Tribunal appearance yet continued to leave them unresolved
• Left the profession to bear the burden of the unpaid premium and potentially complicated claims against his former firm
• Did not engage with the Tribunal process

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_suspension_months=5092.28"]