Philip Pawson

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

Philip Pawson, called to the Bar in 1999, faced a 5-person Disciplinary Tribunal (decision 7 December 2016). He was found to have engaged in dishonest or otherwise discreditable conduct: between 25 October 2007 and 22 December 2011, as a director of nine companies, he authorised six of those companies to pay him £5,000 each for the same piece of legal work. As an unregistered barrister, he also exhibited a false contract of employment to a sworn affidavit on 5 December 2014, intending to induce a court to believe it was genuine when he knew it was false. He was disbarred.

Duties found breached:

• Maintain competence and CPD
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues