{"id":649,"date":"2008-11-08T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T21:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2008-11-08T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T21:25:37","slug":"man-impersonates-barrister-new-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Man impersonates barrister &#8211; new offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-651\" style=\"width:160px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ian_clegg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ian_clegg-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>ian_clegg<\/div>\r\n<\/div>A bogus lawyer, Ian Clegg aged 32 is believed to be the first person to be convicted of impersonating a barrister, a new offence under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/acts\/acts2007\/ukpga_20070029_en_13#pt8-pb3-l1g181\">section 181 of the  Legal Services Act 2007<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>The offence carries a maximum jail term of one year, he was remanded for reports and will be sentenced later.<br \/>\nPress story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/3400309\/Man-facing-jail-after-admitting-he-impersonated-a-barrister.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ian_clegg A bogus lawyer, Ian Clegg aged 32 is believed to be the first person to be convicted of impersonating a barrister, a new offence under section 181 of the Legal Services Act 2007, The offence carries a maximum jail term of one year, he was remanded for reports and will be sentenced later. Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}