Nasar Hussain

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

The Respondent, a solicitor of 23 years' standing acting for himself in a personal injury claim, failed in his ongoing duty of disclosure regarding a prior shoulder injury from a stair fall, allowing an incomplete expert addendum report (26 August 2020) to stand uncorrected and submitting a misleading witness statement (29 October 2020) asserting his injuries were wholly attributable to the road accident. The Tribunal found breaches of Principles 1, 2 and 5 and paragraph 1.4 of the Code, but expressly dismissed the dishonesty allegation (Principle 4), distinguishing the civil court's finding of fundamental dishonesty which related to a different matter. No finding of recklessness was made as it was not clearly pleaded. A 4-month suspension suspended for 2 years was imposed with £15,000 costs (reduced from £30,025 claimed, with CMH costs disallowed).

Duties found breached:

• Not mislead the court
• Integrity
• Uphold public trust in the profession
• Serve justice and improve the law

Aggravating factors:

• Continued period of inaccuracy lasting about six months
• Misleading the court is inherently serious with high potential impact
• Inaccuracy only corrected by defence solicitors and the court, not by the Respondent

Mitigating factors:

• 23-year unblemished career
• Self-reporting to the SRA
• Cooperation with the regulator
• Insight and genuine remorse
• Isolated, single episode
• No repetition since events
• Positive character references

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["review_dishonesty_finding_cue_present"]