A British company director has won an appeal against a Financial Services Authority ruling that he was unfit for his job after a tribunal decided he was guilty only of โ€œcarelessnessโ€.

The tribunal ruled that Mandeep Panesar, a director of advisory firm Burlington Associates, had made mistakes when he completed an FSA compliance form and had wrongly signed a declaration saying that he had read guidance notes published on the FSAโ€™s website.