Umran Nasser-Puri

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

The Respondent, a former solicitor, was convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 27 April 2009 of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and sentenced to four months imprisonment; his appeal was dismissed on 30 June 2009. The deception consisted of falsely representing on his QLTT Certificate of Eligibility application that he had never been convicted of any offence and had never previously enrolled with the Law Society, which enabled his admission to the Roll. The Tribunal expressly found the conviction arose from circumstances in which the Respondent had been dishonest. It ordered that his name be prohibited from restoration to the Roll except by Order of the Tribunal, and ordered him to pay costs of £1,103.70, not to be enforced without the Tribunal's leave. An adjournment request was refused.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations
• No taking unfair advantage

Mitigating factors:

• No member of the public was affected and no client complaints
• The employing firm in 2006 was aware of his 1999 conviction
• Matter had been hanging over the Respondent for a considerable period (application 2005, conviction 2009)
• Had a wife and young family and legal work was the only work he had known
• Could have produced numerous references from QCs and solicitors
• Costs order not to be enforced without leave of the Tribunal given financial circumstances