Legal Futures reports
A solicitor has been ordered to pay the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) £20,000 in costs for his “unreasonable and indeed vexatious and disruptive conduct” of litigation against it.
Adekunle Soyege was repeatedly warned by employment judges about how he was pursuing his case against the SRA, with complaints about the volume of, and language in, emails he was sending the regulator and its lawyers.
Mr Soyege issued three claims of discrimination, harassment and victimisation in 2020 and 2021 over the SRA placing conditions on his practising certificate.
He had operated as a sole practitioner, trading as Nat Jen Soyege in Milton Keynes, and was rebuked in 2016 for having practised without professional indemnity insurance for just over a month before closing his firm in February 2015.
Some of the allegations were struck out in advance of the six-day hearing in March 2023 – as Mr Soyege was not an employee of the SRA – and most of the rest were dismissed because the tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear them. The remainder were not well founded.
Further claims issued in 2022 and 2024 have separately been struck out. The SRA sent him a clear costs warning letter in January 2022.
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