Former Fieldfisher partner Michael Harte has been handed a suspended sentence by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) after he was convicted of failing to give a sample when suspected of drink driving.

Harte was convicted of failing to give a sample when he was stopped by police on his way to Leeds in July 2013 after a lorry driver reported seeing the driver of a Porsche 911 drinking whiskey while driving with his son in the passenger seat.