A solicitor who used a disabled badge that did not belong to him nine times to park near his law firm has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
Wahid Nazari denied dishonesty, despite being convicted by Lewes Crown Court of three counts of using a Blue Badge with intent to deceive. The tribunal said it saw “no distinction between the concepts of deception and dishonesty”.
Mr Nazari, who worked in the Haywards Heath office of leading personal injury firm Carpenters, is the second solicitor in a couple of months to be sanctioned by the SDT for disabled badge dishonesty.
We reported in August that Nina Koushi, who admitted dishonesty, was suspended for six months for a single Blue Badge offence. The tribunal found that she was suffering from mental health problems at the time.
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