The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has recommended that an Allen & Overy solicitor be prosecuted for their role advising on an historic sexual harassment settlement with disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

The SRA has recommended to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) that the solicitor be prosecuted for their role advising Miramax – which Weinstein co-founded – in 1998, when the producer’s then-assistant Zelda Perkins accused him of sexual harassment.