Cynthia Mary Griffiths

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

Cynthia Mary Griffiths, a solicitor's clerk responsible for the accounts department at Cyril Morris Arkwright solicitors, dishonestly misappropriated £6,775.34 of clients' cash funds between May 1991 and July 1994, disguising the shortfalls on client bank reconciliations. The Tribunal found the allegation substantiated and expressly found she had dishonestly misappropriated clients' monies. It made a Section 43 order controlling her future employment within the profession and ordered her to pay costs of £870 plus the Investigation Accountant's costs of £2,788.49. The respondent did not appear and did not dispute the facts.

Duties found breached:

• No improper use of client money
• Report serious misconduct of others

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=3658.49"]