Disciplinary Record
Takeshige Sugimoto
Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Decision - Prosecution Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ...
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 7 September 2023
Published date: 2 April 2024
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Bird & Bird (Belgium) LLP
Address(es): 12 New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1JP
Firm ID: 497264
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
Outcome of SDT Hearing
This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which reaches its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Respondent. The Tribunal had certified that there was a case to answer.
On 19 August 2024 the SDT considered and approved an Agreed Outcome.
The Tribunal ordered that, for a period of 5 years from 19 August 2024 except with permission of the Law Society (through the Solicitors Regulation Authority):
- No solicitor shall employ or remunerate, in connection with his practice as a solicitor Takeshige Sugimoto;
- No employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate, in connection with the solicitor's practice the said Takeshige Sugimoto;
- No recognised body shall employ or remunerate the said Takeshige Sugimoto;
- No manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate the said Takeshige Sugimoto in connection with the business of that body;
- No recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit the said Takeshige Sugimoto to be a manager of the body;
- No recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit the said Takeshige Sugimoto to have an interest in the body.
The SDT judgment will be available at www.solicitorstribunal.org.uk
Other information
He is a former Registered Foreign Lawyer
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) records last published to this site at 6:40am on 17 February 2025. Originally published on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) website.