Adam Kemeny

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

Adam Kemeny, admitted 2016, deliberately failed to pay rail fares totalling approximately £650 over the period 7 July to 17 October 2017, failing to pay for 105 of 128 journeys until caught by a Govia ticket inspector. He self-reported after being summarily dismissed by his firm and settled with Govia for £849.90. The Tribunal found breaches of Principles 2 and 6 and made an express finding of dishonesty under the Ivey test. No exceptional circumstances were advanced or found, so the Tribunal ordered that he be struck off the Roll and pay costs of £3,082.26.

Duties found breached:

• Honesty
• No taking unfair advantage
• Uphold public trust in the profession

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty alleged and proved
• Misconduct involved commission of a criminal offence (fare evasion)
• Deliberate and calculated conduct, repeated over a period of time
• Misconduct continued for several months (7 July to 17 October 2017), on 105 occasions
• Respondent knew or ought to have known conduct breached obligations to protect public and reputation of profession
• Limited insight; conduct only ceased when caught

Mitigating factors:

• No previous disciplinary matters
• Made good the loss to the train operator and paid Govia's costs
• Self-reported to the SRA
• Made open and frank admissions at early stage and cooperated (though only after being caught)