# Case (Solicitor fined over LPAs). Varinder Ghaiwal \[2022\] MHLO 4 (SDT)

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**Created:** [22 November 2022 14:53 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/case-solicitor-fined-over-lpas-varinder-ghaiwal-2022-mhlo-4-sdt/1375 "2022-11-22T14:53:54Z")\
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— Varinder Ghaiwal was fined £6,000 (plus £11,000 costs) for, while acting as certificate provider in respect of a client's two LPAs, failing to verify instructions and failing to ensure that the client understood the purpose of the LPA and/or the scope of the authority they provided. The case arose after the police made a report to the SRA concerning an ongoing investigation into the elderly man's financial affairs. The SRA commissioned an expert report which concluded: "Mr Ghaiwal’s case is that he was a witness, however he was far, far more than that: a certificate provider. His failure to recognise this and therefore his failure to recognise the resulting duties and responsibilities meant that there was an egregious breach of his obligations to [the client]".

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Full details available at: [https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Varinder\_Ghaiwal\_(2022)\_MHLO\_4\_(SDT)?id=221122-1430](https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Varinder_Ghaiwal_(2022)_MHLO_4_(SDT)?id=221122-1430)