Law Society says crackdown on lawyers who act improperly is distraction from UK’s failure to clear asylum claim backlog
Ministers have been accused of “lawyer-bashing” and seeking to distract from their own failures to clear the backlog of asylum claims by pushing a crackdown on lawyers who act improperly.
The justice secretary has said he would be comfortable with severe punishment for immigration lawyers who engage in malpractice after the government said they could face life in jail under the terms of the Illegal Migration Act.
