WB LEGAL LLP

Mark Ian Bronzite exemplifies how bad a solicitor can become.

Having proved 20 charges and finding Mark Bronzite to have been dishonest in his dealings with client money the SDT on the 29th September 2009 ordered that Mark Bronzite of Chalbury Dorset be struck off the roll.

WB Legal LLP went into administration on the 3rd April 2009 and on 27th April 2009 Mark Bronzite was declared bankrupt.

See extracts below from the published SDT findings (9849-2007). Para 48 is laughable.
(Also see Law Gazette 27-5-2010).

47. The SRA had obtained a copy of the cleared cheque from the bank. The cheque had been written out to H in the amount of £2,000 in February 2007 but on 8 November 2007, having retained the cheque for 9 months without sending it to H, the First Respondent had struck out H’s name and had substituted his own name as payee before paying it into his own personal bank account.

48. During questioning by the IO, the First Respondent had stated that he “didn’t intentionally” amend the cheque, that “it wasn’t intentional to change it” and had suggested that he did not remember altering the cheque himself. The First Respondent had later stated that he had amended the cheque because he “didn’t want to waste paper”, I can’t think of any other reason”. The First Respondent had agreed with the IO that his actions had constituted the misuse of his client’s money.

54. To complete his rectification of the remainder of the shortage, the First Respondent had then “borrowed” £59,155.65 from 4 client ledgers.