Peter Collins

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

Peter Collins dishonestly failed to inform 4 King's Bench Walk Chambers of fees received in 32 public access cases and dishonestly failed to pay Chambers £4,236.00 he was legally liable to pay. He also produced and sent a false fee note to an instructing solicitor purporting to be from Chambers, and failed to comply with the Public Access Rules in 28 cases by not notifying clients in writing as required by rC125. He was disbarred, given two concurrent 3-month suspensions and had his practising certificate suspended.

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• No conflict between current clients