Birmingham County Court judge Andrew Charman has ruled that Raphael Newton, a solicitor with southeast London firm Gordon & Thompson Solicitors, need not go before the UK Solicitors Regulation Authority over fictitious citations made in a submission, reported the Law Society Gazette .

The judge attributed the inclusion of false cases in Newton’s submission to the firm’s administrative staff and said in a statement published by the Gazette that the failure was “in substance a failure of management at the firm more than the failure of Mr Newton as an individual solicitor.”

Nonetheless, Charman emphasized that including false cases in a submission was a serious matter. Per the official transcription of the extempore judgment in Ndaryiyumvire v Birmingham City University , an application

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