Chartered accountant hit with £78,600 sanction after ‘completely unacceptable, offensive, hurtful and vindictive’ emails to solicitor
Coventry chartered accountant Edward Franklin has been handed a severe reprimand and financial penalty of £5,000, and ordered to pay costs of £73,600, after an ICAEW tribunal found he sent a series of abusive emails containing ‘highly offensive and profane’ language.
The tribunal stated allegations in the case related to ‘inappropriate comments made by Mr Franklin in various emails sent between 13 August 2022 and 24 September 2022 to a number of individuals’.
The emails stemmed from a commercial dispute following the closure of solicitor-regulated firm named as ‘H’ LLP, where Franklin had worked as an accountant.
The tribunal heard the emails were sent during a ‘protracted and acrimonious dispute’ involving Franklin's ‘former superior’, a solicitor referred to as Mr B.
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