Law Society-v-Noemaan Farooq Butt

Edinburgh 19 February 2015.  The Tribunal having considered the Complaint dated 1 April 2014 at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Noemaan Farooq Butt, Solicitor, 6 Thornhill Gardens, Newton Mearns; Find the Respondent guilty of Professional Misconduct in cumulo in respect of his repeated breaches of Rule 6 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Accounts etc Rules 2001, his repeated breaches of Rule 4(1)(a) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Accounts etc Rules 2001 which included his falsification of bank records and issuing false and misleading accounts certificates, and his failure between 5 October 2010 and 9 March 2011 to have in place adequate systems for the supervision of staff; Order that the name of the Respondent be Struck Off the Roll of Solicitors in Scotland; Find the Respondent liable in the expenses of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland and of the Tribunal including expenses of the Clerk, to today’s date, chargeable on a time and line basis as the same may be taxed by the Auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client, client paying basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £14.00; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Respondent and that this publicity will be deferred until the conclusion of Crown Office investigations into criminal conduct connected to matters contained within this Complaint and any prosecution proceeding thereon and in relation to the Secondary Complainer’s claim for compensation continue the case to a procedural hearing on 2 April 2015 at 10:30am.

 Dorothy Boyd

  Vice Chairman

Compensation Interlocutor:

Edinburgh 2 April 2015. The Tribunal having considered the Complaint dated 1 April 2014 at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Noemaan Farooq Butt, Solicitor, 6 Thornhill Gardens, Newton Mearns; Of consent allow the Secondary Complainer, Kalpana Sharma, Supreme Advisory Networks Ltd., 48 Clarendon Place, St George’s Cross, Glasgow, to withdraw her Claim for Compensation and Finds no expenses due to or by any party in relation to the procedural hearing on 2 April 2015.

 Dorothy Boyd

Vice Chairman