David Greene

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

David Davies, a lay applicant, brought a private prosecution before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal alleging fraud and dishonesty against David Greene, a senior partner at Edwin Coe LLP, claiming Greene had lied in a witness statement, provided a misleading chronology and given false evidence in a 2012 County Court fee dispute. Although a case to answer had been certified, Greene applied to strike out the application on grounds of lack of candour, lack of merits, and abusive collateral attack. The Tribunal found that District Judge Stewart's 2016 Judgment (not before the certifying division) comprehensively rejected the same allegations, expressly finding Greene had not misled the court and had not acted dishonestly or fraudulently. The Tribunal found the applicant had not deliberately lacked candour but that the supporting material was deficient, that the application had no realistic prospect of success, and that it amounted to a collateral attack on a court of competent jurisdiction. It struck out and dismissed the application and ordered the applicant to pay £30,000 costs. (On later appeals the strike-out was set aside in part.)

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["review_dishonesty_finding_cue_present"]