Disciplinary Record - Tariq Rehman

Mr Charles Richard Milo Bagot KC

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Ms Helen Carter

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Mrs Pauline Burden

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Her Honour Judge Suzanne Coates

Tariq Rehman, a barrister, on a date or dates unknown between 1 November 2011 and 9 September 2013, engaged in conduct discreditable to a barrister, in that, acting on behalf of Kings Court Chambers, he agreed to the use of scripts by employees or agents of Global Immigration Consultants Limited in telephone conversations with prospective lay clients which included a representation that a barrister or barristers at Kings Court Chambers would do work for the prospective lay client in return for a stated fee, whereas the sum stated included, in addition to a card handling fee, an additional sum of ?100 per lay client which was retained by Global Immigration Consultants Limited when the barrister?s fee was remitted to Kings Court Chambers.

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and joint head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, between 15 May 2012 and 17 December 2012 failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that he caused or permitted staff of Kings Court Chambers to accept cases in his name under the Public Access Rules by means of a client care letter being sent to the lay client bearing his name in circumstances in which Kings Court Chambers operated a system which did not allocate cases to any member of chambers before the client care letter was sent, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and joint head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, between 15 May 2012 and 17 December 2012, failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that fee notes were not issued on behalf of members of chambers to lay clients for whom they had agreed to do or had done work purportedly under the Public Access Rules, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that a complaint made by MS on 7 April 2012 and by solicitors on her behalf on 12 April 2012 about legal services purportedly supplied by unidentified members of Kings Court Chambers was dealt with by staff or members of Kings Court Chambers without MS being provided with, together with the acknowledgement of the complaint, (a) the name of the person who would be dealing with the complaint together with that person?s role in chambers, (b) a copy of the Chambers? Complaint Procedure, and (c) the date by which MS would next hear from Chambers as required by Annexe S to the Code of Conduct, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and joint head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that a complaint made by CM and CK on about 6 May 2012 about legal services purportedly supplied by unidentified members of Kings Court Chambers was dealt with by staff or members of Kings Court Chambers without CM and CK being provided with, together with the acknowledgement of the complaint, (a) the name of the person who would be dealing with the complaint together with that person?s role in chambers, (b) a copy of the Chambers? Complaint Procedure, and (c) the date by which CM and CK would next hear from Chambers as required by Annexe S to the Code of Conduct, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and joint head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that a complaint made by CBR on about 20 August 2012 about legal services purportedly supplied by unidentified members of Kings Court Chambers was dealt with by staff or members of Kings Court Chambers without CBR being provided with, together with the acknowledgement of the complaint, (a) the name of the person who would be dealing with the complaint together with that person?s role in chambers, (b) a copy of the Chambers? Complaint Procedure, and (c) the date by which CBR would next hear from Chambers as required by Annexe S to the Code of Conduct, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister and joint head of chambers at Kings Court Chambers, failed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that his chambers were administered competently and efficiently in that a complaint made by SS in about late October or early November 2012 about legal services purportedly supplied by unidentified members of Kings Court Chambers was dealt with by staff or members of Kings Court Chambers without SS being provided with, together with the acknowledgement of the complaint, (a) the name of the person who would be dealing with the complaint together with that person?s role in chambers, (b) a copy of the Chambers? Complaint Procedure, and (c) the date by which SS would next hear from Chambers as required by Annexe S to the Code of Conduct, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, the extent of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 15 to 18 of this Charge Sheet).

Tariq Rehman, a barrister, supplied legal services in a case in which he was instructed by a lay client pursuant to paragraph 401(a)(iii) of the Code of Conduct without complying with Rule 6(g) of the Public Access Rules, in that between about 27 June 2012 and 13 August 2012 he supplied legal services to AM, a lay client, without having informed AM in writing of the fee which he proposed to charge or the basis on which his fee would be calculated.

Tariq Rehman, a barrister, supplied legal services in a case in which he was instructed by a lay client pursuant to paragraph 401(a)(iii) of the Code of Conduct without complying with Rule 6(a) of the Public Access Rules, in that on about 11 May 2013 he supplied legal services to YW, a lay client without having informed YW in writing of the work which he had agreed to perform.

Tariq Rehman, a barrister, supplied legal services in a case in which he was instructed by a lay client pursuant to paragraph 401(a)(iii) of the Code of Conduct without complying with Rule 6(g) of the Public Access Rules, in that on about 11 May 2013 he supplied legal services to YW, a lay client, without having informed YW in writing of the fee which he proposed to charge or the basis on which his fee would be calculated.

Tariq Rehman, a barrister, failed to meet all the requirements of Annexe S to the Code of Conduct in that he failed to provide YW, who had complained to Kings Court Chambers on about 29 July 2013 about work done by Tariq Rehman and by another member of chambers, with, together with the acknowledgement of the complaint, (a) the name of the person who would be dealing with the complaint together with that person?s role in chambers, and (b) a copy of the Chambers? Complaints Procedure, such failure being serious and thereby constituting professional misconduct by virtue of the nature of the failure, and of its combination with other failures to comply with the Code of Conduct (being the failures which are the subject of charges 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 15 to 17 of this Charge Sheet).