Solicitor struck off over accounting failures

Alison Hazel Margaret Greer was found guilty of professional misconduct owing to her failure to see that the firm in which she was a partner, Alder Hogg, complied with the Accounts Rules; in her duty to supervise the firm’s office manager and cashier, in her duty to take steps to satisfy herself that fees being charged to executries were properly so charged and that fee notes were properly rendered and to see that at all times the sums at credit of the client account exceeded the sums due to clients and also for her her continued drawing of funds from the firm while it was being financed by the overcharges to clients.