Shazia
Bhatti
Solicitor
339322
This individual changed their surname from Rasheed on 19 December 2005
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 12 August 2025
Published date: 16 September 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication and at time of matters giving rise to outcome
Name: Finsbury Law Solicitors Limited
Address(es): 136a Seven Sisters Road, London, N7 7NS
Firm ID: 655419
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Shazia Bhatti's practising certificate for 2024/2025 is subject to the following interim conditions:
- Mrs Bhatti may act as a solicitor only as an employee and only where the employment has first been approved by the SRA.
- Mrs Bhatti shall not act as a manager or owner of any authorised body, authorised non-SRA firm or legal services body.
- Mrs Bhatti is not to be a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body, or head of legal practice (HOLP) or head of finance and administration (HOFA) for any authorised body.
- Mrs Bhatti shall not provide reserved or unreserved legal services on her own account under regulations 10.2(a) or (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.
In these conditions the terms are as defined in the SRA Glossary.
Reasons/basis
The above interim conditions are made under rule 3.2 of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, which states that at any stage an authorised decision maker may, pending a final decision by the SRA or the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, impose interim conditions on the practising certificate of a solicitor. We are satisfied that these conditions are necessary in the public interest or for the protection of the public.