defence Shiner was charged before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal but did not attend its two-day hearing, after telling it in writing that "he was unwell and could not afford to pay for a defence lawyer". He "admitted eight allegations of acting without integrity, including that he made 'unsolicited direct approaches' to potential clients", and he also admitted "another allegation of acting recklessly". Andrew Tabachnik, prosecuting for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, said that "Shiner's defence to the dishonesty charges ... was effectively: 'I was not in full control of my mental faculties at this time and I didn't know right from wrong and what I am doing. Findings against him The tribunal found him "guilty of multiple professional misconduct charges, including dishonesty and lack of integrity". Twenty-two "misconduct charges ... were proved to the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt. Two other charges were left to lie on the file." By February 2017, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal struck him off the Roll of Solicitors and also ordered him to "pay for the full costs of the prosecution, starting with an interim downpayment of £250,000". Other consequences By the time Shiner was struck off in February 2017, Ihat "had fewer than 250 active investigations". About a week later Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced that Ihat would soon be shut down, largely due to the exposing of Shiner's "dishonesty". When welcoming the decision to strike him off, the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Paul Philip, stated: Shiner's disgrace also resulted in criticism by former army officers of Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, the Labour Party's shadow attorney general. Johnny Mercer MP, a retired Army captain, criticised her for "an almost child-like understanding of military operations" and for "trying to retrospectively apply European Human Rights Law to the battlefield". Richard Kemp a retired Army colonel accused Chakrabarti of being "one of [Shiner's] greatest supporters" before his downfall, and of "helping him lose his way" as a result of such support. She said that she had been saddened by Shiner's downfall and had said that, before apparently "losing his way", he had "given good service to the public" and "did some very good work that has been upheld by a judicial inquiry into, for example, the torture and killing of Baha Mousa in Iraq." In June 2022, Shiner was charged with three counts of fraud and entered a plea of Not Guilty. The charges