Mohamed Faliq Mohamed Ismail

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

The Respondent, a solicitor at NatWest Bank, was convicted on 18 August 2020 of three counts of making and three counts of distributing indecent images of children (over 15,000 images), and sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment suspended for 18 months, a 5-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and 10 years on the Sex Offenders Register. The SRA alleged breaches of Principles 2 and 6 of the SRA Principles 2011 by virtue of these convictions. The matter was dealt with on the papers by way of an Agreed Outcome. The Tribunal found the Respondent highly and exclusively culpable, with harm at the top end of the spectrum, and ordered him struck off the Roll and to pay costs of £2,082. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Six criminal convictions for extremely serious sexual offences against children
• Conduct deliberate, calculated and repeated over a significant period (some 17 months)
• Over 15,000 indecent images and videos possessed
• Distribution of material to like-minded individuals
• Motivated by sexual gratification at expense of vulnerable children
• Respondent knew conduct breached duty to protect public and reputation of profession

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary proceedings
• Accepted guilt from the outset in both criminal and Tribunal proceedings
• Cooperative with the SRA