A 'brilliantly successful' barrister has been disbarred for lying that he studied at Oxford.
Anurag Mohindru, 50, had risen to become a KC, and acted in multiple crown court trials – including successfully helping defend England cricket star Ben Stokes against assault charges.
But his glittering career is at an end after the Bar Tribunal Service yesterday found him guilty of claiming to have studied at Oxford.
He did so in a job application 12 years ago, but because his lies risk bringing the profession into disrepute, he has been barred from acting in the courts – and ordered to pay £54,000 costs.
Mr Mohindru, chairman of Essex county cricket club, a role he faces being stripped of this weekend, had also been charged with falsely claiming to have qualified as a medical doctor – and was said to have falsely claimed to have played professional cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club, based at Lord's.
