Disciplinary Record - Michael Shrimpton

Mrs Alison Fisher

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His Honour Judge Christopher Allan Critchlow

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Mrs Deborah Spring

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Mr Jonathan Joseph Glasson KC

Michael Shrimpton behaved in a way which was dishonest or otherwise discreditable and/or likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession or otherwise bring the legal profession into disrepute , contrary to Paragraph 301(a) (i) and/or (iii), in that he between 19-20 April 2012 communicated information to B and S which he knew or believed to be false, namely that a bomb was present in the London area for which he was convicted before the Crown Court sitting at Southwark on 25 November 2014 of two counts of communicating false information with intent, contrary to section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, for which offence Michael Shrimpton was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on 6 February 2015.

Michael Shrimpton behaved in a way which was dishonest or otherwise discreditable and/or likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession or otherwise bring the legal profession into disrepute , contrary to Paragraph 301(a) (i) and/or (iii), in that between 11 July 2011 and 20 April 2012 he made images or pseudo images of children for which he was convicted by East Berkshire Magistrates’ Court on 20 February 2014 of an offence contrary to the Protection of Children Act 1978, for which offence Michael Shrimpton was sentenced to a 3-year Supervision Order, was made the subject of a 5-year Sex Offender Prevention Order, was ordered to be placed on the Sex Offender Register for 5 years and was ordered to pay costs.