Oladipo Bolarinwa Ayoola

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

The Respondent, admitted in 1999, attended the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on 31 July 2007 representing a vulnerable client under the name Oladipo Ayoola Solicitors, a firm never registered with the SRA and without indemnity insurance. He completed a Section 84 form falsely indicating he was authorised/supervised, and failed to respond to SRA correspondence. The Tribunal found all three allegations (breaches of Rules 1.02, 1.06, 1.04 and 20.03) proved in his absence. No express finding of dishonesty was made; the tribunal referred to lack of integrity and misleading the AIT. He was struck off and ordered to pay costs of £1,400.

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• Not misrepresent regulated status

Aggravating factors:

• Client was a particularly vulnerable immigration client
• Misled the AIT by completing the Section 84 form claiming proper supervision/authorisation
• Held himself out as a solicitor with a firm not registered with the SRA
• No professional indemnity insurance in place
• Repeatedly failed to respond to the SRA, obstructing its regulatory function