The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has cleared a conveyancer of taking instructions from a client’s son and of manifest incompetence in a property transaction during the pandemic. Mr Feely, who qualified in 2002, was and is a partner at David Barney & Co in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The father, Client A, reported concerns about Mr Feely’s conduct of a property transaction between himself and his son, ‘JR’, in June 2023. It therefore dismissed the allegation that Mr Feely “communicated with or through JR and took instructions on aspects of the transaction from JR”. Mr Feely was reprimanded and ordered to pay costs of £6,000.