Raja Shazad Khan; Ishtiaq Ahmed

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

First Respondent (Ishtiaq Ahmed), sole practitioner/owner of AUUA Law, was found to have provided inaccurate and misleading information on the 11 May 2021 PII application (Principles 2 and 5, with recklessness), employed the suspended Second Respondent (11-27 May 2021), permitted the Second Respondent to act as account signatory and authorise transfers contrary to his PC conditions, and failed to ensure the Accrington branch accounts complied with the Accounts Rules. Dishonesty was NOT proved against the First Respondent. He was suspended for 1 year, that suspension itself suspended for 2 years. The Second Respondent (Raja Shazad Khan) was found to have practised as a solicitor while his PC was suspended (with an express finding of dishonesty under Principle 4) and to have breached the conditions on his PC by being an account signatory and authorising transfers. He was struck off the Roll. Allegations regarding the 30 March 2021 PII application (allegation 1) and misleading information to the SRA (allegation 4) were not proved.

Duties found breached:

• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues
• Handle inadvertently received material
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report