A MAN who worked at a law firm and was sacked for gross misconduct has been rapped by the regulator.

The details were revealed in a decision from the Solicitors Regulation Agency (SRA).

It states that Mansoor Hussain, from Keighley, was employed by a firm in Birmingham as an IT worker.

According to the SRA ruling, he was dismissed after sending messages to another member of staff which contained “offensive language”.

The ruling says: “Mr Hussain was employed by Pinsent Masons (the firm) as an IT service desk analyst between November 4, 2019, until June 5, 2020, when he was dismissed for gross misconduct. The firm is a recognised body.

“Between May 15, 2020, and May 28, 2020, Mr Hussain sent a number of messages via the firm's internal communication channels to another member of staff, which contained offensive language directed towards the recipient.

“These messages continued after the recipient had asked Mr Hussain to stop contacting her.”

His behaviour was in breach of three SRA principles.

The ruling adds: “Mr Hussain who is not a solicitor 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.”

The order from the SRA is as follows: “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 permission.”

He was given a written rebuke and ordered to pay the SRA’s costs of £600.

A written rebuke is a statutory disciplinary sanction. The SRA rebukes a regulated person “when there has been significant misconduct, or a series of incidents which are cumulatively significant”.

The SRA says: “A rebuke will be appropriate when the misconduct has caused, or had the potential to cause, significant impact.”