Shirley Bothroyd

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

Shirley Ann Bothroyd, an unregistered barrister, faced six charges of professional misconduct arising from multiple criminal convictions in 2017-2018 including common assault, assaulting a constable, a public order offence and threatening to damage property, as well as failing to report her convictions and sentence to the BSB. The Tribunal, proceeding in her absence, found all charges proved to the criminal standard. It disbarred her on Charges 1-4, imposed a reprimand on Charge 5 (in light of mental health issues) and a six-month suspension on Charge 6, and ordered costs of £2,128.50. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• Self-report to the regulator

Aggravating factors:

• Offences of high culpability and harm involving a number of victims
• Offences attracted custodial sentences
• Failure to report convictions to the regulator
• History of not responding to requests from her regulator
• Repetition of conduct including violence and threats of harm to others and property

Mitigating factors:

• Apparent ill health/mental health issues at time of conviction (relevant only to Charge 5, partly explaining failure to report)

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=2128.5"]