Gulfraz
Khan
Solicitor
502757
Decision - Control of practice
Outcome: Condition
Outcome date: 21 July 2025
Published date: 1 October 2025
Firm details
Firm or organisation at date of publication
Name: Blackwells Solicitors Limited
Address(es): 19 Devonshire Street, Keighley BD21 2BH
Firm ID: 666115
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
Mr Khan's practising certificate for 2024/2025 is subject to the following conditions:
- Mr Khan may not act as 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) in any authorised non-SRA firm.
- Mr Khan must not undertake criminal work in any form including any attendances/representations at:
- Police stations
- Magistrates' courts
- Crown courts
- Prisons
- Subject to the conditions above, other than as a manager and/or owner of Blackwells Solicitors Limited, Mr Khan may only act as a solicitor where the role has first been approved by the SRA.
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.