Qunmber Bin Ehsan

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

Solicitor Qunmber Bin Ehsan entered a retainer with Client A to obtain UK residency visas for her parents, took a £10,000 deposit, failed to provide the promised services, became evasive, and failed to refund the money as promised despite the application being unsuccessful. He also failed to cooperate with investigations by the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA. The Tribunal, proceeding in his absence, found all allegations proved including express dishonesty under the Ivey test. Given the finding of dishonesty and multiple integrity breaches, with no exceptional circumstances under Sharma, he was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £21,500.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations
• Proper termination and return of instructions
• Cooperate openly with regulators

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonest conduct including failure to repay £10,000 contrary to express agreement
• Financial gain motivation; planned conduct
• Client A was a lay client inexperienced in the matters
• Made promises before receiving payment which he failed to keep
• Repeated and prolonged failure to cooperate with regulators
• Knew conduct was in material breach of obligations to protect the public and reputation of profession
• Complete failure to engage with Legal Ombudsman, SRA and Tribunal

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary findings; otherwise unblemished record since admission in 2007