British attorney Oliver Edward Bretherton, formerly a director at Gowling WLG and now a partner at gunnercooke (though his bio link is suspiciously inactive), is facing allegations of sexual misconduct by three different women. At the disciplinary hearing at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the conduct Bretherton is accused of engaging in while employed at Gowling WLG is shocking.
As reported by Law Gazette, the allegations of Person A, who was hired at 18 years old to a junior position in Bretherton’s department, include sexually graphic tasks “relating to [Bretherton’s] sexual gratification”:
Nimi Bruce, for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, alleged that Bretherton then gave the woman tasks ‘relating to his sexual gratification’, telling her he wanted to ‘f*** her and he would do it in the office and he didn’t care if there was a glass wall’.
Bretherton told the woman, referred to as Person A, that she should sleep with a man she was meeting for a date and send pictures of them having sex.
He allegedly asked her to masturbate in the office toilets and before bed every day and encouraged her to send messages which were ‘descriptive and explicit’. Bruce said the woman ‘found it funny’ at first but was increasingly uncomfortable with what was going on, particularly when he allegedly sent her a video of him masturbating, which she told him she had watched when she had not.
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