Gregory Stuart Saunders

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

Gregory Stuart Saunders, a solicitor at Clarke Willmott LLP, admitted making untrue and misleading statements to Client F (June 2018-Feb 2019) and to Client C (Feb 2018) regarding a £20,681.09 payment, and misappropriating client money by causing a £20,681.09 payment from Client C's ledger to Firm B. Dishonesty was admitted. The Tribunal approved an agreed outcome, finding no exceptional circumstances, and struck him off the Roll with agreed costs of £4,600.

Duties found breached:

• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Misappropriation of client money
• Repeated untrue and misleading statements to two clients
• Dishonesty admitted

Mitigating factors:

• Self-reported to the SRA
• Admissions made
• Personal mitigation noted