Priyank Tanwar, admitted in 2010, was today found to have provided misleading information to Leicester County Court about his location during an hour-long hearing in August 2023.
The three-person panel found Tanwar, who was working as a self-employed consultant for a London-based firm when instructed by a father in family court proceedings, had acted dishonestly.
Tanwar had denied the allegations, saying it was not his intention to mislead the judge.
The tribunal heard that Tanwar told the court clerk, representatives for the mother including counsel, the interpreter and his client that he was abroad and would be appearing remotely. When Recorder O’Grady asked where Tanwar was, he said ‘Ealing, London’. He told the tribunal that he had misunderstood the judge.
However Tom Walker, for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, said this was ‘nonsensical’ as the judge’s questions ‘were specifically where [Tanwar] was at that moment’.
