Awodola –v- (claimant/resp) –v- Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (def/appellant)

Thursday 21st October 2021

This is an appeal the Order of HHJ Karen Walden-Smith (sitting as a HCJ) (17/11/20) that ordered:

The reconsideration determination of the Chairman of the Defendant’s Appeal Committee, dated 14 February 2019, refusing the Claimant’s application for permission to appeal the determination of the Disciplinary Committee made on 19 October 2018 is quashed.

The Claimant’s application for reconsideration of the refusal of his application for permission to appeal the determination of the Disciplinary Committee made on 19 October 2018, be considered by the Appeal Committee in accordance with the provisions of the 2018 Rulebook iteration of the Defendant’s Appeal Regulations.

Mr Awodola became a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) on 30 April 2005 and a fellow on 30 April 2010. He was excluded from membership as a consequence of the decision of ACCA’s Disciplinary Committee on 19 October 2018.

Lower Court Judgment:

Awodola v Association of Chartered Certified Accountants [2020] EWHC 3059 (Admin) (17 November 2020) (bailii.org)

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