Sexual harassment | Lawyer pestered newly promoted female colleague for sex during work trip

A lawyer told a colleague he “would really like to f*** her” and other sexually-charged comments during a work weekend away.

A panel of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) heard solicitor Matthew James Machen Barker propositioned a newly promoted colleague and refused to leave her hotel room, told her he needed “a cuddle” and that his problem was “attractive women.”