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By John Hyde2021-03-11T15:31:00+00:00
The Legal Ombudsman is set to scale back plans for a 19% budget increase after admitting it was ‘asking for a lot’.
The Office for Legal Complaints, which oversees the complaints body, had wanted to increase spending to £15.26m for 2021/22 to deal with a backlog of thousands of unopened cases. But OLC chair Elisabeth Davies admitted this week that following widespread opposition from lawyer representative groups that the business plan and budget will be revised.
The new budget forecast has not been revealed, but has been agreed by the OLC board and will be considered by the Legal Services Board when it meets later this month.
13:23 EDT, 4 February 2021
A barrister who dealt in the chemsex pills that killed his teenage boyfriend went on a drugs binge after he was suspended from the profession, a tribunal has heard.
Henry Hendron, 40, is facing 18 charges of professional misconduct brought by the Bar Standards Board in relation to behaviour which followed a previous suspension.
In 2015, Hendron bought £1,000 of mephedrone and GBL, a drug similar to GHB, from BBC producer Alexander Parkin, 42, to deal ‘in bulk’ on to the gay party scene.
He gave detailed instructions to his Colombian boyfriend Miguel Jimenez, 18, on how to use and package the drugs to which Miguel replied: ‘Blimey, and I’m the Colombian.’