Adelle Stoddart
Employee
694904

Decision - Control of practice

Outcome: Condition

Outcome date: 24 March 2026

Published date: 18 May 2026

Firm details

Firm or organisation at time of matters giving rise to outcome

Name: Jackson Quinn

Address(es): 7 Grove Street, Retford, DN22 6NN

Firm ID: 60159

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Decision details

Who does this decision relate to?

Ms Stoddart, whose last known address was in Nottinghamshire.

A person who is or was involved in a legal practice but is not a solicitor.

Summary of decision

The SRA has put restrictions on where and how Ms Stoddart can work in an SRA regulated firm. It was found that:

Ms Stoddart, who is not a solicitor, was involved in a legal practice and has occasioned or been a party to an act or default which involved such conduct on her part that it is undesirable for her to be involved in a legal practice in any of the ways described in the order below.

The facts of the case

Ms Stoddart was employed as a practice manager at the firm.

Over several years, Ms Stoddart was found to have misappropriated client funds to the value of £698,103.66, misappropriated business funds by using the firm’s credit card for personal expenditure and falsifying documents to cover up her conduct.

Ms Stoddart also falsified a Change of Name deed, changing her name to that of a deceased client.

Decision on outcome

An order pursuant to section 43(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974 was imposed as Ms Stoddart’s conduct meant that it was undesirable for her to be involved in a legal practice without the SRA’s prior approval. The order pursuant to section 43 was made with effect from the date of the letter or email notifying Ms Stoddart of this decision:

Ms Stoddart’s conduct was serious because it was dishonest.

Ms Stoddart was also ordered to pay a proportion of the SRA's costs of £300.

What our Section 43 order means

1. no solicitor shall employ or remunerate her in connection with his/her practice as a solicitor;
2. no employee of a solicitor shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the solicitor's practice;
3. no recognised body shall employ or remunerate her;
4. no manager or employee of a recognised body shall employ or remunerate her in connection with the business of that body;
5. no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit her to be a manager of the body; and
6. no recognised body or manager or employee of such a body shall permit her to have an interest in the body

except in accordance with the SRA's prior written permission.