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The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
While in practice as a trainee solicitor at Stachiw Bashir Green Solicitors, the respondent had, in a conveyancing transaction regarding property 1, inappropriately signed replies to requisitions on title in the name of Janet Butterfield; and inappropriately signed a TR1 form in the name of Janet Butterfield; thereby breaching principles 2 and 6 of the SRA Principles 2011.
In a conveyancing transaction regarding property 2, she had inappropriately signed a certificate of title in the name of Janet Butterfield, thereby breaching principles 2 and 6.
In a conveyancing transaction regarding property 3, she had inappropriately signed a certificate of title in the name of Janet Butterfield, thereby breaching principles 2 and 6.
HM Land Registry didn t suspect a thing when she delivered the documents.
A junior solicitor who was struck off for faking her colleague s signature is appealing the decision in the High Court.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal banned Henna Zeb Khan from the profession for signing conveyancing documents using a senior colleague s name. The documents were submitted to HM Land Registry and the bank.
The incident occurred in 2018 when Khan was a trainee at Bradford firm Stachiw Bashir Green Solicitors, but only came to light in 2019, a few months after Khan qualified.
Khan, who represented herself at a two-day hearing in February, admitted that she had signed the documents in the name of a licensed conveyancer at the firm, Janet Butterfield, but claimed she had been authorised to do so.