Ms Forrest, who qualified in 1995 and was a solicitor at Meikles Solicitors in County Durham at the time, acted as the deputy for a boy, ‘Client A’, from 2006 to 2022. Ms Forrest did neither. After the OPG visit, Ms Forrest reported a potential negligence claim to her senior partner. In September 2022, the firm reported Ms Forrest to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over her management of the case and she left shortly afterwards. At the same time, Ms Forrest had admitted her failures to the OPG and co-operated with the SRA.