Stephen Crouch

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

Stephen Crouch, a barrister called in 1982, provided incorrect advice to a lay client on the mens rea for attempted murder in September 2011, leading the client to plead guilty when the correct plea would have been not guilty. After the error was identified during an appeal presided over by Sir Brian Leveson, Crouch failed to report his serious misconduct to the BSB and failed to respond to the BSB's requests for information. He was disbarred and fined £200 and £500.

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• Handle inadvertently received material
• Report serious misconduct of others

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=700"]