Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

Former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh has failed in a bid to avoid paying legal expenses to the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal. She had launched proceedings at the Court of Session after the SSDT ordered her to pay expenses in her professional misconduct case.

Former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, 48, has been found guilty of professional misconduct and has been fined £3,000 by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT). Ms Ahmed-Sheikh was a solicitor at the now-defunct law firm Hamilton Burns before she entered politics. The acti