Mohammed Latif

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

Mohammed Latif, called to the Bar in 1985, faced three charges of professional misconduct before a 3-person Bar Disciplinary Tribunal, decided 25 April 2025. Charge 1 (breach of CD10) and Charge 2 (breach of CD9 and rC64.1) concerned his failure to provide transparency information (a transparency factsheet under rC159) despite repeated BSB requests between November 2021 and November 2022. Charge 3 (breach of CD9 and rC64.1) concerned his failure to promptly respond to allegations sent on 10 May 2023. All three charges were proved. He was fined £5,000 in total and ordered to pay £4,500 costs to the BSB. No finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• Cooperate openly with regulators
• Handle inadvertently received material