Mojisola Adetokunbo Adesola Kareem

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

Sole practitioner Mojisola Kareem, whose firm was in serious financial difficulty, used client funds and monies owed to third parties to pay her own firm's liabilities, failed to transfer/pay professional disbursements, breached multiple Solicitors Accounts Rules, made a deliberately misleading professional indemnity insurance application (denying a civil judgment), breached an undertaking to pay an expert, failed to file Accountant's Reports, and failed to co-operate with the SRA investigation. She did not appear. The Tribunal found all allegations proved and, applying the Twinsectra test, found dishonesty in the use of client money. She was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs subject to detailed assessment (Applicant's schedule totalled £33,933.88).

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• No conflict between current clients
• Handle inadvertently received material
• No improper use of client money
• Prompt accounting and return of money
• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonest use of client money and attempt to conceal it
• Continued to allow further similar breaches after accountants identified them
• Third parties suffered loss and judgments were ignored
• Made deliberately misleading statement on insurance proposal form
• Failed to co-operate with investigation and took no part in proceedings