Robert Mannering
Sedgwick
Solicitor
100849
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 17 April 2025
Published date: 21 August 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Buss Murton Law LLP
Address(es): Wallside House, 12 Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1EE
Firm ID: 513079
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which will reach its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Solicitor. The Tribunal has certified that there is a case to answer in respect of allegations which are or include that, while a consultant employed at Buss Murton Law LLP and subsequently as an independent consultant:-
- In March 2016, while acting as a consultant employed by the Firm, he facilitated the preparation and execution of a back-dated document;
- In August 2017, while acting as an independent consultant, he facilitated the preparation, execution and circulation of a back-dated document purporting to be an assignment of loan;
- In the period January – March 2019, while acting as an independent consultant, he facilitated the preparation, execution and circulation of backdated documents, being a call option agreement and a facility agreement.
- In the period 30 December 2015 to 31 March 2018, he owned, controlled and was sole director of Global Security Trustees Limited ('GST'), whose role was to act as security trustee protecting the interests of bondholders, notwithstanding an obvious conflict in doing so (or significant risk thereof) given his previous and ongoing instructions (as consultant employed by the firm and thereafter as an independent consultant) for borrowers and/or persons with an interest in these borrowers
The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.