Law Society-v-Finlay Park
Interlocutor
Edinburgh 18 April 2006. The Tribunal having considered the Complaint dated 15 November 2005 at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Finlay Park, Solicitor, formerly of Messrs Park Hutchison, Solicitors, Glasgow, presently residing at Flat 1/2, 5 Arcan Crescent, Drumchapel, Glasgow; Find the Respondent guilty of Professional Misconduct in respect of his persistent failure to provide timeous responses to correspondence from the Law Society, his persistent failure to obtemper statutory notices, his misrepresentation of the status of court proceedings to English agents and his persistent failure to provide adequate services to his clients; Censure the Respondent; Direct in terms of Section 53(5) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 that any practising certificate held or to be issued to the Respondent shall be subject to such restriction as will limit him to acting as a qualified assistant to and to being supervised by such employer or successive employers as may be approved by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland or the Practising Certificate Committee of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland and that for an aggregate period of at least five years and thereafter until such time as he satisfies the Tribunal that he is fit to hold a full practising certificate; Find the Respondent liable in the expenses of the Complainers and in the expenses of the Tribunal as the same may be taxed by the auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client indemnity basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £11.85; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Respondent.
Vice Chairman