David Greene

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

David Davies, a lay applicant, brought a private prosecution against solicitor David Greene alleging he lied in a witness statement, provided a misleading chronology, and gave false evidence regarding whether the client for unpaid fees was Davies personally or his company Eco-Power. The Tribunal had certified a case to answer, but the Respondent applied to strike out on grounds of lack of candour, lack of merit, and abusive collateral attack. The key document was District Judge Stewart's 2016 Judgment, which had expressly found the Respondent had not misled the court and engaged in no fraudulent activity. The Tribunal found the 2016 Judgment provided a complete answer, that the Lay Application had no realistic prospect of success, and that it amounted to going behind a court of competent jurisdiction. It found no deliberate lack of candour by the Applicant (he lacked the judgment transcript). The application was struck out/dismissed and the Applicant ordered to pay £30,000 costs (reduced from £35,500 to exclude ~£5,000 for a withdrawn privacy application). The decision was later subject to appeals which set aside the strike-out in part.

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["review_dishonesty_finding_cue_present"]