Lesley Helen Baggott

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

The respondent, a solicitor's clerk employed as a cashier by Nevills solicitors, was convicted on her own guilty plea of theft and false accounting for paying herself unauthorised overtime, appropriating £571.74 of client money, and was sentenced to six months' probation on each count concurrently. The Tribunal found the allegation substantiated and made a Section 43 order controlling her employment by solicitors. Costs of £632.40 plus a £500 contribution towards the Law Society's Investigation Accountant's costs were ordered; the Tribunal declined to impose the full accountant's costs given her financial position but held she had contributed to the need for inspection.

Duties found breached:

• No improper use of client money

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=1132.4"]