05 January 2012
Davis v Solicitor’s Regulation Authority [2011] All ER (D) 177 (Dec)
In considering an appeal from a decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to refuse to enroll the appellant as a solicitor following her failure to disclose a driving conviction on the advice of her supervisor, the court found that the appellant had not initially had a viewpoint of her own; the advice she had received had created her viewpoint. Although the advice she had received had been bad advice, it was unreasonable to criticise the appellant for having accepted advice from people she believed were in a position to give her good advice. Accordingly, the decision of the SRA had not been one that had
been open to the SRA to reach.
