Dine and dash lawyer struck off

Disgraced solicitor failed to pay for £43 takeaway and Harvester meal

- Frances Millar

 

Kerry Ann Stevens insisted she had already paid for the food online but this was untrue. The cost of the meal was deducted from the driver's wages, a tribunal heard.

The solicitor had also been arrested for leaving a Harvester restaurant without paying a bill of £60, the panel was told.

Stevens was found guilty of two counts of fraud at a magistrates court and has now been thrown out of the profession after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found her guilty of misconduct for her "premeditated and deliberate" acts.