Naseem Bajwa

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

Naseem Ahmed Bajwa, a barrister, recklessly misled the Bar Council/BSB in January 2022 by stating in two practising certificate applications that he was a door tenant at Martin Burr Chambers and would start practising there, when he had not applied for tenancy and was not a door tenant. The Tribunal found Charges 2 (breach of CD3/rC8 - lack of integrity) and amended Charge 4 (breach of CD5 - diminishing public trust) proved on the basis of recklessness/gross recklessness. The dishonesty-based charges (1, 3, 5, 6) were dismissed for lack of cogent evidence of deliberate dishonesty. He was disbarred and ordered to pay £2670 costs to the BSB.

Duties found breached:

• Personal probity and fitness to practise
• Self-report to the regulator

Aggravating factors:

• Previous disciplinary history of similar nature (2019 suspension for false declaration on application/admission to Gray's Inn)
• Lack of remorse
• Lack of insight into significance of conduct
• Likelihood of repetition
• Sustained act of misleading via two practising certificate applications with opportunity to withdraw
• Misleading information given in professional context with view to personal gain

Mitigating factors:

• Age and health (not accepted as relevant to conduct at material time)
• Long career in law (though not unblemished)