Disciplinary Record - Jean Etienne Attala

Ms Belinda Knight

, 

Dr Manju Bhavnani

, 

Mr Mark West

, 

His Honour Judge Paul Anthony Lawton

Jean Attala, between 20 September 2011 and 9 August 2013, whilst acting as a senior executive for a firm of solicitors and during the conduct of a claim being made on behalf of clients of that firm (?the claim?), failed to act in those clients? best interests and acted dishonestly by:

a) failing to comply with orders and correspondence from the Employment Tribunal (ET?) in respect of the claim, resulting in the proceedings being struck out (on 30 November 2011);

b) deliberately misleading the ET, prior to the proceedings being struck out, by indicating that he was taking instructions from his clients and/or gathering evidence in respect of quantum when he was not taking those steps;

c) deliberately misleading the clients and officials of the union, which was funding the claim, by telling them:

(1) that the proceedings were continuing,

(2) that he was trying to arrange and was expecting to receive a hearing date shortly

(3) that the Tribunal was about to rule upon a legal interpretation point after a hearing when such information was false because the proceedings had been struck out;

d) deliberately misleading his employers, when an enquiry was made by some of the clients in July 2013, by falsely telling his employers:

(1) that the proceedings had been withdrawn and then saying

(2) that the claim had been successfully reviewed but had then been withdrawn by the clients.

Jean Attala, between 8 September 2014 and 19 March 2015, failed to inform the Bar Standards Board that you were subject to disciplinary action by another approved regulator, namely the Solicitors Regulation Authority