The U.K. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has suspended a solicitor for 12 months, in a reversal of an earlier decision that was criticised by the High Court.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority had previously accused Nabeel Sheikh, founder and former senior partner of the now-defunct firm Neumans, of submitting a fraudulent bill of costs totalling nearly £3 million in relation to work done on a lengthy criminal case.