Disciplinary Record - Soma Sengupta

Miss Amanda Claire Savage KC

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Mr David Flinter

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His Honour Judge John Randolph Trevor Rylance

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Mr Lee Andrew Gledhill

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Dr Manju Bhavnani

On 8 June 2013, Soma Sengupta was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (First Department) of the State of New York consequently upon her having been convicted in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on 15 February 2013 of offences, including:

(a) One count of conspiracy (a class A misdemeanour) to engage in and cause performance of conduct constituting the crimes of

(i) Criminal possession of a forged instrument and

(ii) Offering a false instrument for filing;

(b) Three counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (a class D felony), and

(c) Two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (a class E felony).

The Defendant was disbarred, her name was stricken from the roll of attorneys and counsellors-at-law in the State of New York (with retroactive effect from 15 February 2013), and she was ordered (inter alia) to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form.

On appeal, on 23 October 2014, Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Acosta, Saxe, and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ in the Supreme Court, New York County:

(i) reduced the three convictions for possession of a forged instrument in the second degree to convictions for possession of a forged instrument in the third degree (a class A misdemeanour);

(ii) otherwise, rejected the appeal, so that the other convictions remain unaffected; the impact (if any) upon sentence has yet to be determined.