Ian Millard

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

Ian Millard, an unregistered barrister who had identified himself as a barrister on Twitter, posted seven seriously offensive tweets in November 2014 containing antisemitic, racist and Islamophobic content (including swastika imagery and references to Jews being unwanted). These were found to breach Core Duty 5 as they were seriously offensive and likely to diminish public trust and confidence in him and the profession. He was disbarred.

Duties found breached:

• Uphold public trust in the profession