Disciplinary Record - Sean McCarthy

Decision - Control of practice

Outcome: Condition

Outcome date: 1 July 2024

Published date: 4 July 2024

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Spencer West

Address(es): Longbow House, 14-20 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4TW, England(Head office)

Firm ID: 555456

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

Mr McCarthy's practising certificate for 2023/2024 is subject to the following conditions:

1. Mr McCarthy may act as a solicitor only as an employee and only where the employment has first been approved by the SRA.
2. Mr McCarthy may not act as signatory to any client account and does not have the power to authorise payments or transfers from any client account.
3. Mr McCarthy is not to be a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body.

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

Reasons/basis

The above interim conditions are made under rule 3.2 of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, which states that at any stage an authorised decision maker may, pending a final decision by the SRA or the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, impose interim conditions on the practising certificate of a solicitor. We are satisfied that these conditions are necessary in the public interest or for the protection of the public.

Other information

The conditions are effective immediately, pursuant to rule 6.2 of the SRA Application, Notice, Review an Appeal Rules. It is in the public interest for the conditions to take immediate effect because the sooner the conditions are imposed, the sooner the public gains protection. The risk raised by Mr McCarthy’s alleged misconduct is serious, and it is important that the public is protected against this as soon as possible.