Huseyin Arslan

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

Huseyin Arslan, a non-solicitor immigration caseworker/consultant at DL, challenged an SRA section 43 Order and disciplinary decisions (rebuke plus £500 penalty) alleging he had created/amended attendance notes and provided false and misleading information during an investigation into a client complaint. The Tribunal held the criminal standard of proof applied to both the section 43 review and section 44E appeal, and that a review (not rehearing) was the correct approach. It found the SRA Adjudicator had wrongly assumed the appellant could open the email attachments and was therefore unaware of the allegations until 30 December 2013, meaning he could not have altered documents to answer them. The Tribunal found none of the document allegations proved on either standard, quashed the section 43 Order and revoked the disciplinary decisions. No dishonesty finding was made against him. The appellant was ordered to pay £20,000 costs (not enforceable without leave given his lack of means).