Rizwan Ahmad

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

Sole practitioner Rizwan Ahmad failed to deliver an accountant's report for the six-month period ending 31 March 2010, breached a practising certificate condition, and failed to cooperate with the SRA. The Tribunal proved all three allegations to the criminal standard in his absence. Given a prior nearly identical disciplinary matter and broken assurances to the Tribunal, he was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £1,571.40. No dishonesty was alleged or found.

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports

Aggravating factors:

• Second disciplinary case in a short period for essentially similar breaches
• Breached assurances given to Tribunal a month earlier that reports would be filed
• Failed to heed prior stern warning and financial penalty
• Lack of engagement with SRA and Tribunal throughout