Charles Darby, a commercial partner Solicitor in the Leicester office of Freeths has been fined £4,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Charles Darby, a commercial partner Solicitor in the Leicester office of Freeths has been fined £4,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

A law firm partner who asked if it was acceptable to call a gay trainee solicitor a “poofter” – and repeated the question to the trainee – has been fined £4,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Charles Darby, a commercial partner in the Leicester office of Freeths, was also sanctioned for allowing a client to use the firm’s client account as a banking facility.

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