Jack Alexander
Williams
Solicitor
650152
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 6 December 2024
Published date: 19 March 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication and at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Blaser Mills LLP
Address(es): 40 Oxford Road, High Wycombe HP11 2EE
Firm ID: 620391
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 :-
On or around 25 September 2023, Mr Williams amended the electronic copy of an internal handover note dated 19 December 2022 relating to the Estate of Client A , by deleting the prompt to carry out Capital Gains Tax mitigation with the intention and/or effect of misleading others into believing that no prompt had been included in the original internal handover note.
On 27 September 2023, sent an email which was misleading by failing to set out fully and/or accurately the circumstances that gave rise to a Capital Gains Tax liability to the estate of Client A.
The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 23 April 2024
Published date: 23 May 2024
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication and at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Blaser Mills LLP
Address(es): 40 Oxford Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2EE
Firm ID: 620391
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Mr Williams' practising certificate for 2023/2024 is subject to the following conditions:
- He may not act as a manager or owner of any authorised body.
- He may act as a solicitor only as an employee and only where the employment has first been approved by the SRA.
- He is not to act as a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or a compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body.
- He may not practise on his own account under regulation 10.2(a) or (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.
In these conditions the terms are as defined in the SRA Glossary.
Reasons/basis
The above interim conditions are made under rule 3.2 of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, which states that at any stage an authorised decision maker may, pending a final decision by the SRA or the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, impose interim conditions on the practising certificate of a solicitor. We are satisfied that these conditions are necessary in the public interest or for the protection of the public.