Clive Graham
Wood
Solicitor
126737
Decision - Prosecution
Outcome: Referral to Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Outcome date: 11 April 2025
Published date: 22 December 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication and at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: CGW Law
Address(es): 5 Pentre Morgan Barns, St. Martins, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 3LX
Firm ID: 550732
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Reasons/basis
This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which will reach its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Solicitor. The Tribunal has certified that there is a case to answer in respect of allegations which are or include that, while in practice as a solicitor and sole practitioner through the entity at CGW Law:
1. During July 2022, he attempted to take unfair advantage of an individual's position as a litigant in person by repeatedly asking for their contact details when he knew or ought to have known that:
- They did not want to provide him with that information;
- They had no legal duty to provide him with that information;
- He did not need that information to progress his client matter
2. During July 2022, he obtained contact details for an individual by means of a private investigator and then disclosed those contact details to his client when he knew or ought to have known that:
- Obtaining the individual's likely contact details was not necessary;
- They would not have consented to their contact details being obtained by such means;
- The relevant Family Procedure Rules directed that the individual was entitled to withhold their contact details until directed to disclose them by a court order;
- Doing so would prevent the court from being able to properly determine during an upcoming hearing whether such disclosure should in fact be made.
The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.