Past disciplinary findings

Satvir Aujla-Sahota a self-employed barrister (‘the Barrister’) on 4 July 2017 deliberately and dishonestly attempted to mislead Mark Jackson, then her Head of Chambers at No.8 Chambers, Birmingham at a meeting attended by the Barrister and Mr Jackson, who was investigating a complaint made against the Barrister by Hayes Law, by stating that:

a) a document attached to an email she had sent on 28 June 2017 to her then senior clerk Christine Maloney in response to a complaint made on 27 June 2017 by Hayes Law, solicitors on whose instructions the Barrister had acted in relation to a domestic violence case for her lay client “N”, had been sent by the Barrister to Hayes Law on or about 8 June 2017 and was her attendance note relating to her appearance for N on the instructions of Hayes Law at a hearing on 6 June 2017 in the Birmingham County Court, when

b) (as the Barrister knew) the document she had attached to her email to Ms Maloney had not been sent by the Barrister to Hayes Law; and

c) (as the Barrister knew) that document was materially different to her attendance note as sent to Hayes Law by email at 09:42 on 8 June 2017, in that the Barrister had changed the date of a further hearing in N’s case, which the Barrister had wrongly recorded in her original attendance note sent on 8 June 2017 as being on 26 July 2017 had been changed to the correct date 21 June 2017, and

d) in circumstances where part of the complaint made against the Barrister was that she had failed to inform Hayes Law that a further hearing in N’s case had been directed to take place on 21 June 2017