A pillar of the legal community has been charged with fraud.
Tony Guise, the director of Guise Solicitors, is a Law Society committee member who has sat on its Civil Justice committee for the past eight years. He is also on the panel of Duty Solicitors, representing lawyers who appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. For the last 12 years he has also been the chairman of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN), which "champions the cause" of commercial dispute resolution and which he launched in 2004.
He has now been accused of ripping it off. Guise has been charged with several counts of fraud, one of which is understood to relate to alleged misappropriation of CLAN funds. He is due to appear before magistrates later this month, and has stepped down from his CLAN role in the meantime.
Guise will need to have done more than just rest some money in his account to trump Law Soc's most notorious council member. In 2011 Louise Brough sunk her teeth into the arm of a neighbour's daughter and "hung on like a dog", and was eventually sent to prison after spitting on her parents, harassing a terminally-ill pensioner and trying to bite a policeman.
Guise, CLAN and the Law Society all failed to comment.
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Tony Guise, the director of Guise Solicitors, is a Law Society committee member who has sat on its Civil Justice committee for the past eight years. He is also on the panel of Duty Solicitors, representing lawyers who appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. For the last 12 years he has also been the chairman of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN), which "champions the cause" of commercial dispute resolution and which he launched in 2004.
He has now been accused of ripping it off. Guise has been charged with several counts of fraud, one of which is understood to relate to alleged misappropriation of CLAN funds. He is due to appear before magistrates later this month, and has stepped down from his CLAN role in the meantime.
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Guise will need to have done more than just rest some money in his account to trump Law Soc's most notorious council member. In 2011 Louise Brough sunk her teeth into the arm of a neighbour's daughter and "hung on like a dog", and was eventually sent to prison after spitting on her parents, harassing a terminally-ill pensioner and trying to bite a policeman.
Guise, CLAN and the Law Society all failed to comment.
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