Arbab Khalil

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

Arbab Khalil, an unregistered barrister called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn on 21 March 2024, was found to have submitted plagiarised work (a 99% match) as his own dissertation to Cardiff University on 24 January 2024. The Tribunal rejected his account that he had sold his own work to a website, finding he deliberately misled the Tribunal and had acted dishonestly under the Ivey test. He also failed to disclose Cardiff's academic misconduct investigation to his Inn before call, making his call declaration false - conduct found discreditable (though not itself alleged dishonest). All charges proved. As a case of calculated dishonesty in the mid-range, the sanction was disbarment, with £2,670 costs to the BSB and an order that no practising certificate be issued pending appeal.

Duties found breached:

• No baseless or threatened misconduct report
• Honour professional undertakings
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

Aggravating factors:

• Conduct was intentional and calculated/planned
• Failure to self-report the investigation to the Inn
• Lack of insight into the seriousness of his conduct

Mitigating factors:

• At the entry of the profession with no real professional experience
• Less likely conduct would be repeated
• No previous findings against him