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Solicitors hit back at government statements on asylum claims

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09 August 2023
Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Immigration & asylum , Human rights
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The Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary this week announced the launch of a ‘dedicated taskforce’ as part of ‘a clampdown on crooked lawyers who coach illegal immigrants to lie’

However, Law Society deputy vice president Richard Atkinson said: ‘This “taskforce” has been around for months now, so it is not clear what, if anything, the government is announcing today.

‘The focus of the Home Office on a tiny minority of lawyers to which they are apparently applying considerable resources should not deflect from the fact that there remain significant backlogs in asylum claims or the unworkability of the Illegal Migration Act.’

The Solicitors Regulation Authority suspended three firms last week for offering to submit fake asylum claims for clients.

Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Immigration & asylum , Human rights
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