Stephen Crouch

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

Stephen Crouch, called 1982, was found to have committed professional misconduct on three counts: (1) in September 2011 he provided incorrect advice on the mens rea for attempted murder without adequate research, facilitating a guilty plea where the correct plea would have been not guilty; (2) between March and June 2015 he failed to report this serious misconduct to the BSB as required by rC65.7, despite the error being identified by Sir Brian Leveson at the client's appeal and his confirming the error on oath; and (3) between June and July 2015 he failed to reply to BSB correspondence requesting information under rC64. He was disbarred and fined £200 and £500 (totalling £700). No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• Handle inadvertently received material
• Report serious misconduct of others
• Good faith and courtesy to colleagues

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=700"]