Lutfur Rahman, already ousted from office, now struck off as solicitor and landed with £86k bill
Highly controversial Tower of Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman was removed from office for breaking the law. Now he’s been struck off as a solicitor too:
The former elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has this week been struck off the roll of solicitors and ordered to pay £86,400 in costs…
In April 2015 Judge Richard Mawrey QC, sitting as an Election Commissioner, ordered the election of the mayor for London Borough of Tower Hamlets to be re-run, after finding Rahman, the incumbent, guilty of corrupt and illegal practices…
In June this year Rahman saw the Administrative Court reject his challenge to a five-year ban on him standing for public office.
No great loss – A different approach between this and the Miranda Grell case – who subsequently qualified as a barrister:
https://www.libdemvoice.org/so-whats-miranda-grell-formerly-convicted-of-homophobic-smears-on-her-liberal-democrat-opponent-up-to-these-days-44788.html