{"id":715,"date":"2008-12-22T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2008-12-22T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:17:00","slug":"two-years-for-pretending-to-be-a-barrister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Two years for pretending to be a barrister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ian Clegg the first man to be convicted of the new offence of impersonating a barrister turns out to be a convicted fraudster with needed long-term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/barrister-diversity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"205\" alt=\"barrister_diversity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/barrister-diversity-thumb.jpg\" width=\"205\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a>psychological treatment. <\/h3>\n<p> Passing a two year jail sentence, Judge Esmond Faulks said that Clegg was a compulsive liar who  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cwanted to appear more important than you are. That\u2019s your primary motive, rather than trying to feather your own nest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He bought his wig and gown on eBay. <\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article5349165.ece\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Clegg the first man to be convicted of the new offence of impersonating a barrister turns out to be a convicted fraudster with needed long-term psychological treatment. Passing a two year jail sentence, Judge Esmond Faulks said that Clegg was a compulsive liar who \u201cwanted to appear more important than you are. That\u2019s your [&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-715","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\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}