Disciplinary Record - Jude Sebastian Fletcher

Decision - Control of practice

Outcome: Condition

Outcome date: 8 September 2023

Published date: 13 October 2023

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Fletcher Day Ltd

Address(es): 30 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6DA

Firm ID: 614192

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

Jude Sebastian Fletcher’s practising certificate for 2022/2023 is subject to the following conditions:

1. Mr Fletcher shall not act as a manager or owner of any authorised body.
2. Subject to condition 1, Mr Fletcher may act as a solicitor only as an employee and only where that employment has first been approved by the SRA.
3. Mr Fletcher may not practise on his own account under Regulation 10.2(a) or (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.
4. Mr Fletcher may not act as a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body.
5. Mr Fletcher does not hold, receive, or have access to client money, or act as a signatory to any client or office account, or have the power to authorise electronic transfers from any client or office account.

In these conditions the definitions are as defined in the SRA Glossary.

Reasons/basis

The above conditions necessary in the public interest and reasonable and proportionate having regard to the purposes set out in Regulation 7 of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations and the regulatory objectives and principles governing regulatory activities as contained in section 28 of the Legal Services Act 2007.

Decision - Closure

Outcome: Intervention

Outcome date: 22 February 2023

Published date: 22 February 2023

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Fletcher Day Limited

Address(es): 30 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6DA, The Core, 30 Brown Street, Manchester, M2 1DH, 247 Barlow Moor Road, Manchester, M21 7GJ

Firm ID: 614192, 628802 and 663367

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

To intervene into the practice of Jude Fletcher practising at Fletcher Day Limited.

Reasons/basis

It is necessary to intervene to protect the interests of clients (or former or potential clients) of Jude Fletcher and/or the interests of the beneficiaries of any trust of which Jude Fletcher is or was a trustee (paragraph 1(1)(m) of Schedule 1 – Part I to the Solicitors Act 1974).

Intervening agents

Chris Evans of Lester Aldridge, Russell House, Oxford Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EX has been appointed as the intervening agent.

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