(unnamed respondent)

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

Teresa Anderson, a non-authorised person, applied under s.43(3) Solicitors Act 1974 to review an SRA Adjudicator's section 43 Order imposed following her 2024 conviction for harassment of her former husband. The Tribunal treated the matter as a review, not a rehearing, and refused an application to adduce fresh character evidence. It rejected all five grounds, finding the SRA had properly assessed seriousness, insight/remorse, the context and timing of the conduct, subsequent developments and proportionality, and that the decision was neither wrong nor unjust. The application was dismissed, the section 43 Order confirmed, and Anderson ordered to pay costs of £3,411.24. No finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• No unlawful discrimination or harassment

Aggravating factors:

• Course of conduct over a prolonged period of more than two years
• Multiple forms of conduct including emails, social media posts and use of victim's address on personal financial accounts
• Absence of insight and remorse relevant to future risk

Mitigating factors:

• Conviction not at the most serious end of criminal conduct; summary-only offence dealt with by a fine of £750
• Conduct arose from acrimonious marital breakdown and personal/mental health circumstances
• No dishonesty, violence, misuse of client money or professional nexus
• Conduct pre-dated her work as a police station representative
• Restraining order expired without breach and conviction became spent