The Bar Council Tuesday accused UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of undermining public belief within the authorized occupation by claiming {that a} “subset of legal professionals” is exploiting unlawful migrants for revenue. This is available in response to a sequence of tweets from Sunak, forthcoming after a nationwide newspaper exposé included a video from alleged immigration legal professionals within the North of England being proven giving fraudulent recommendation on how you can declare UK asylum.
In a single tweet Sunak mentioned: “The Labour Occasion, a subset of legal professionals, legal gangs – they’re all on the identical facet, propping up a system of exploitation that income from getting individuals to the UK illegally.” In response, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of the Bar Council, said:
Legal professionals should not past reproach, and all professions have people who commit misconduct and are dishonest. Regulators are there to self-discipline them. The feedback by the Prime Minister, nonetheless, are clearly an try and play politics with the authorized occupation. This damaging rhetoric undermines the rule of regulation, belief in legal professionals and confidence within the UK authorized system and is to be deplored.
The fracas follows the Authorities’s controversial Unlawful Immigration Invoice receiving Royal Assent final Thursday, July twentieth.
The Bar Council represents the practising Bar of England and Wales and seeks to play “an important position in upholding the rules of presidency accountability beneath regulation and vindication of authorized rights by way of the courts.
