He worked as a machine oiler and iron planer at Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow. His father was Francis Downie, born in Ireland. The tribunal found that funds that should have been used to redeem a mortgage were not used for that purpose, leaving a client and her parents making mortgage payments upon the same house and leaving the client in debt to HM Revenue & Customs.Īccording to the judgment, the tribunal considered that Downie had ‘clearly acted recklessly in the actions which led to the creation of this minimum cash shortage on client account given the history of the transaction. Robert Downie (1894-1968) was born at 611 Springburn Road, Springburn, Glasgow, Lanarkshire on 12th January 1894. ‘His conduct appeared to be planned, the dishonest round sum transfers had been repeated over a period of three months and there was no indication that any of the misconduct was anything other than deliberate and calculated,’ the tribunal concluded.ĭownie was also found to have created a cash shortage of £204,000 after causing or allowing an improper payment to be made from his firm’s client account. The tribunal found that Downie, admitted in 1997, had ‘benefitted directly’ from the transfers and had ‘prevaricated’ when clients challenged him about the missing funds.
According to the tribunal’s judgment, the money was moved from the firm’s client account to the office account and on to ‘unknown destinations’. Robert Alan Downie was found to have made 22 dishonest transfers amounting to £193,210 over a three-month period in 2019, when sole equity owner of Bathurst Brown & Downie LLP.
A solicitor who dishonestly transferred almost £200,000 of client money for his own benefit has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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