Overview

• The SRA concluded its investigation without bringing charges, citing proportionality and public interest concerns.
• In a formal warning the authority said falsely presenting oneself as a solicitor again could trigger reconsideration of prosecution under the Solicitors Act 1974.
• Reynolds never qualified as a solicitor after leaving his training contract at Addleshaw Goddard to pursue a parliamentary career.
• He has removed the solicitor reference from his online CV and apologised in Parliament for not clarifying that he was only a trainee.
• Opposition figures including Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage called for Reynolds’s resignation and urged a ministerial code review.