Some are nonetheless being thought of, because the tribunal hears ultimate submissions as we speak
After contemplating submissions towards high barrister Jo Sidhu KC, who’s accused of focusing on aspiring legal professionals for intercourse, the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service has struck out a bunch of the fees.
Listed below are a number of the key expenses which have been dropped towards the previous Legal Bar Affiliation chair:
Twerking
Sidhu is alleged to have despatched a GDL pupil searching for work expertise on the bar a WhatsApp message saying, “Mmm, I’d like to see you twerk,” or phrases to that impact. The cost sheet states that Sidhu despatched the message round 11pm and that “he had a sexual motive in sending the message”.
However the tribunal has determined that whereas Sidhu was “unwise” to check with twerking, it was “not severely reprehensible”. And that cost has been struck out.
Lodge
On the cost sheet, Sidhu is accused of inviting Particular person 2, a paralegal in her 20s who was doing work expertise with him, to remain in a single day in his lodge room and in his lodge mattress, throughout a mini-pupillage.
The tribunal has accepted Sidhu’s submission that there was no case to reply for this cost and stated that there was no proof that he had invited her into his room, and that an invite to the lodge alone couldn’t quantity to misconduct.
The Bar Requirements Board’s barrister described Particular person 2 as “remarkably sincere and frank” in her written and oral proof.
Late evening assembly
A late evening assembly between Sidhu and one other work expertise pupil, Particular person 3, at a bar, “didn’t cross the brink for severely reprehensible behaviour”, the tribunal stated.
Deleting messages
A cost that Sidhu requested Particular person 3 to delete on-line messages has been struck out by the tribunal as a result of there was no investigation underway on the time, and due to this fact “no query of the respondent making an attempt to destroy proof or thwart an investigation”.
The tribunal did determine, although, that there’s a case to reply over a number of the different expenses concerning Particular person 3. Right here is a abstract of the unique cost sheet.