Wendy Michelle Randall

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

Wendy Michelle Randall, admitted 1988, signed two South African parental consent affidavits on 5 August 2016 confirming they had been signed and sworn before her when they had not, without the parties being present. The Tribunal, dealing with the matter on the papers via an Agreed Outcome, found admitted breaches of Principles 2 and 6 and failure to achieve Outcome 11.4, and accepted her admission of dishonesty (Ivey test). Finding no exceptional circumstances, the Tribunal ordered she be struck off the Roll and pay costs of £6,810.

Duties found breached:

• Integrity
• No conflict between current clients
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty
• Experienced solicitor solely responsible for conduct
• Comments suggesting hope of accruing new business for the Firm

Mitigating factors:

• Exemplary and unblemished 33-year career prior to the matter
• Open and frank admissions and co-operation with investigation
• Genuine insight and remorse
• Misconduct not planned/premeditated
• Isolated single incident
• No direct personal benefit
• Genuine apology