Payments to wrongly held detainees top £4m each year

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm20th April 2016

BBC NEWS The government is paying more than £4m each year in compensation to people who were held unlawfully in immigration detention centres, figures show. The centres hold people the government is trying to deport, including failed asylum-seekers and foreign prisoners. A BBC Freedom of Information request found the government paid £4m in 2014-15, and…

Ex-solicitor fined for posing as HMRC officer

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm20th April 2016

The Law Gazette A former solicitor has admitted pretending to work for HM Revenue & Customs in an attempt to obtain information about a disciplinary investigation into his own misconduct. Paul Baxendale-Walker, 52, was struck off as a solicitor at a tribunal hearing in 2007, but then wrote to the Law Society to try to…