A BRADFORD man who worked at a solicitors' firm has been barred from the profession.

The details were released in a recent decision made by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and came after Imran Khan, who is also known as Imran Khan Hussain and Haji Muhammed Khan, was dismissed for gross misconduct.

Mr Khan tried to cover the fact he had missed a deadline by backdating a letter.

He worked as a paralegal at Din Solicitors, based in Venture House, Silver Street, in Halifax town centre, from February 2020 to February 2021.

A decision notice from the SRA said: "The firm dismissed him for gross misconduct on February 17, 2021.

"It was found that Mr Khan missed a deadline for serving his clients’ disclosure list on a litigation matter.

"To try and conceal this he created a letter on October 28, 2020 and backdated it to October 8, 2020."

It added: "He then amended the letter on November 4, 2020 and sent it to the defendant’s solicitors. The deadline for serving his clients’ disclosure list was October 19, 2020.

"It was found that Mr Khan’s conduct was dishonest."

When making regulatory decisions against an individual the SRA may decide that a qualified or non-qualified individual can be prevented from working in firms that it regulates.

In its ruling, which was made on March 15 and published on March 17, the SRA said: "Mr Khan, who is not a solicitor, is or was involved in a legal practice and has occasioned or been a party to an act or default which involved such conduct on his part that it is undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways described in the order below.

"No solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor; no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the solicitor's practice; no recognised body shall employ or remunerate him; no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate him in connection with the business of that body; no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to be a manager of the body; and no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit him to have an interest in the body except in accordance with the SRA's prior written permission.