Mandeep Sunny Singh Thandi

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

Mandeep Sunny Singh Thandi, a solicitor and director at Kenneth M. Barrow and Co Ltd, provided his personal bank account details to Client A instead of the Firm's, receiving payments intended to settle the Firm's fees. He kept the client's instructions off the Firm's books, retained the funds, and paid counsel's fees from his personal account to conceal the arrangement. He admitted breaching Principles 2, 4 and 5, including dishonesty. The Tribunal, dealing with the matter on the papers via an agreed outcome, found the conduct deliberate and dishonest and struck him off the Roll, ordering costs of £23,085.

Duties found breached:

• Honesty
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank

Aggravating factors:

• Conduct was dishonest
• Knew or ought to have known conduct breached obligations to protect the public and reputation of the profession
• Attempted to conceal wrongdoing on more than one occasion
• Deliberate, repeated misconduct over several months
• Risk of loss to the Firm of fees rightly payable
• Experienced, senior solicitor in a position of trust

Mitigating factors:

• Clean regulatory record with no prior findings (not agreed by SRA)
• Significant personal difficulties during relevant period (not agreed)
• Isolated incident of misconduct (not agreed)
• Cooperated with the SRA's investigation (not agreed)