Amanda Elizabeth Davies

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

Amanda Elizabeth Davies, an assistant solicitor at JCP Solicitors Ltd in Swansea undertaking personal injury work, admitted two allegations of misconduct. First, on 10 June 2016 she made untrue statements to the mother of her client (Ms K.C) about the progress of a Fatal Accidents Act 1976 claim, falsely stating she had put forward a counter-offer when she had not. Second, between 30 December 2015 and 15 September 2016 she created 23 backdated letters across 9 clients' files to conceal her inactivity. She admitted dishonesty on both allegations. The Tribunal, dealing with the matter on the papers by way of agreed outcome, found the admissions properly made and that no exceptional circumstances existed. She was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £2,500. Mitigation (first appearance, early admissions, grandfather's terminal illness, excessive workload, no financial gain) was advanced but not accepted as exceptional.

Duties found breached:

• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty repeated over a nine-month period
• Creation of 23 separate backdated documents
• Untrue statements made to the parents of a vulnerable client

Mitigating factors:

• First appearance before the Tribunal; no previous disciplinary findings
• Early admissions to employer and SRA
• Insight into seriousness of misconduct
• Extenuating personal circumstances - grandfather's terminal illness, of whom she was primary carer
• Excessive workload outside her specialism with no additional training or support
• No financial gain from the misconduct
• No client suffered financially as a result