Law Society-v-Ross Alexander Jones
Interlocutor
Edinburgh 2 April 2015. The Tribunal having considered the amended Complaint dated 1 April 2015 at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Ross Alexander Jones, of Messrs Jones Whyte, Solicitors, 12 Fitzroy Place, Glasgow; Find the Respondent guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his acting in a reckless inaccurate and misleading fashion and allowing his integrity to be called into question by presenting inaccurate and misleading information to the Law Society who were at the material time exercising their duties as regulator whilst considering his application for a waiver and his misleading the Law Society by pretending that he had met with a member of the financial compliance department when in actual fact, as he well knew, he had not. Censure the Respondent; Find the Respondent liable in the expenses of the Complainers and of the Tribunal including expenses of the Clerk, chargeable on a time and line basis as the same may be taxed by the Auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client, client paying basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £14.00; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Respondent and may but has no need to include the names of anyone other than the Respondent.
Dorothy Boyd
Vice Chairman