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Doughty Street Chambers have a press release on their front page about Bruce Hyman. It reads:

There have been several false press reports that Bruce Hyman, a barrister who has pleaded guilty to an attempt to pervert the course of justice, was a member of Doughty Street Chambers. Mr Hyman was in fact a pupil, attached to Doughty Street Chambers only for a few months of his training period, having successfully completed a 12-month pupillage at Blackstone Chambers. He resigned before he could be considered for membership of Chambers and nobody here had any inkling of his criminal behaviour.

Frankly they should have said so earlier, as the rest of … Read the full post

Not content with passing off ‘he was discussing insurance in my office’ as an alibi for an alleged offence of abduction and extortion by a client in 2005, Shahid Pervez, a Scottish ex-conveyancer now convicted of perverting the course of justice, also fell foul of the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal in the same year for ‘accounting malpractice and not registering title deeds timeously’. He was struck off the roll for ten years. It was probably lucky for the alleged offender that he wasn’t actually arranging insurance.

And, in passing, it also appears we have a new offence of demanding money with masturbatory aids. Tell me, is that a … Read the full post