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Senior lawyer banned as City grapples with sexual misconduct failings

Shadow of failing culture continues to hover over the City as lawyer latest to face sanction

Legal regulators take action after stream of inappropriate messages to junior staffer
Legal regulators take action after stream of inappropriate messages to junior staffer Photo: Jason Alden/Getty Images

A senior lawyer has been struck off in the wake of a sexual misconduct investigation as the City continues to grapple with poor behaviour.

Then a director at Gowling WLG, Oliver Bretherton engaged in a "sexual fantasy relationship with an 18-year-old female colleague" according to the Law Society Gazette, which included sending her a video of him masturbating.

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