Name: Chidi Ifejika UMEZURIKE

Name: CK LAW LIMITED

Date of Birth: 18 / 9 / 1977

Date Order Starts: 23 / 3 / 2026

Disqualification Length: 7 Years  Month(s)

CRO Number: 07163137

Last Known Address: 2 Charman Gardens, Ifield,, , , , CRAWLEY, RH11 0GB

Conduct: While in practice as a solicitor and in his role as Compliance Officer for Finance & Administration and Compliance Officer for Legal Practice, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found that Chidi Ifejika Umezurike (“Mr Umezurike”) breached his fiduciary duty as a director of CK Law Limited (“CK Law”) by failing to act in the best interests of the company and his clients’ in that: • On or before 21 September 2019, he failed to protect client monies by making 14 improper transfers of client money to the office account; • He knowingly and deliberately made retrospective changes to ledger entries and/or cashbooks so as to disguise the improper transfers that were made; • As at 31 August 2019, he caused a cash shortage of at least £20,433.10 to exist on CK Law’s client account as a result of the improper transfers and unpaid professional disbursements not having been paid or transferred to the client account; • He failed to comply fully with a Production Notice served on 18 September 2019 under S44B of the Solicitors Act 1974, requiring him to produce specific documents, which was a breach of his legal and regulatory obligations to deal with his regulator in a timely and cooperative manner; • He gave answers in an interview with an Officer of the Solicitors Regulation Authority on 24 April 2019 that were false or misleading; • His actions resulted in multiple breaches of the SRA Principles 2011, the SRA Code of Conduct 2011, the SRA Account Rules and the SRA Authorisation Rules 2011. 

This information is correct as at 6 / 3 / 2026

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