Asolicitor alleged to have posted antisemitic posts on social media sites was ‘aware that he was likely causing offence’, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has heard.
Mohammed Sarfraz is alleged to have, between November 2019 and January 2022, used his Twitter, now X, and Facebook accounts to publicly post inappropriate and/or offensive and/or antisemitic comments which were intentionally so.
Sarfraz, admitted in February 2008, is the director of Bradford firm Cartwright Solicitors. He denies the allegation against him and argues the tweets were made in a private capacity and some were ‘misplaced humour’.
Louise Culleton, for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, said: ‘The SRA…alleges not only were the respondent’s posts or tweets objectively antisemitic but intentionally so. The respondent’s motivation in posting the things he did was antisemitic and was to cause offence.’
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