Life has imitated art after a barrister who wrote a novel about a rule-breaking CPS prosecutor was disbarred.
As if that wasn’t enough, RollOnFriday understands that Ravi Sidhu is the brother of Jo Sidhu, the former chair of the Criminal Bar who has also been disbarred. (If you know more on that, let ROF know).
Sidhu said he drew upon his experiences as a Senior Crown Prosecutor to write Call This Justice, which follows the adventures of a (fictional) 52-year-old CPS lawyer for whom “reckless behaviour was irresistibly good fun”, and who asks himself, “what were the chances, realistically, of getting caught?”
Lower than Sidhu’s, who has had two charges of professional misconduct found against him.
Sidhu obtained instructions from Citadel chambers in Birmingham to act in an inquest, but then cut the chambers out of the loop, unbenownst to his client.
The barrister marked down the days he spent working on the matter as holiday in his diary, and although he issued five invoices on Citadel’s headed paper, they gave his personal bank account details.
Sidhu was paid £40k by his client, a “vulnerable person who had recently been bereaved”, who was “extremely surprised and distressed” when she learned that Sidhu’s work for her ”was not undertaken under chambers”.
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