Remember the former CEO of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), GERALDINE NEWBOLD? She - who resigned in some disgrace, after the SDT lost its offices in the City of London in 2022. Mrs Newbold now works for the Church in Surrey, save that the way she put it on the Diocese of Guildford website for leaving the SDT was that she got "itchy feet". Really? She was forced out! The SDT are, of course, the enforcers for the much-hated Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) whose own CEO PAUL PHILIP is leaving his post in 2025 under a cloud following the Axiom Ince debacle and subsequent criticism from Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood.
Retired Lincoln's Inn Solicitor, Frederick Wright (a penname), describes in his recent book SOLICITORS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL - DIRTY TRICKS the final days of Geraldine Newbold's time at the SDT when trying to get him a prison sentence for describing the SDT as "bigots". No expense was spared by Mrs Newbold at the SDT when using Kate Kapp at law firm Doyle Clayton in Reading who instructed a Q.C to try to ruin litigant-in-person, Frederick Wright. A classic example of a strategic lawsuit again public participation (SLAPPS). Buy the book:
