Anthony David Willis

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

Anthony David Willis, a sole practitioner solicitor, faced five allegations relating to accounting failures, failure to submit Accountant's Reports, failure to cooperate with the LCS/SRA, failure to comply with Adjudicator decisions (compensating clients Dr K, Mrs G, Miss F), and failure to honour an undertaking to pay a £200 court fee. The Tribunal found all allegations substantiated. No dishonesty was alleged or found. Given his repeated similar misconduct (following a February 2008 finding), but absent dishonesty, the Tribunal imposed an indefinite suspension rather than removal from the Roll, and ordered reduced costs of £2,000 given his means (applying D'Souza).

Duties found breached:

• Uphold public trust in the profession
• No conflict between current clients
• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
• Honour professional undertakings

Aggravating factors:

• Repetition of conduct previously found substantiated by the Tribunal on 26 February 2008
• A catalogue of failure and abstention from duty
• Failure to comply with multiple Adjudicator decisions and to compensate clients

Mitigating factors:

• No dishonesty alleged or found
• Severely constrained financial circumstances, unable to work for over a year and in receipt of benefits