Guido smells somthing rotten.......
Baroness Scotland Has No Defence
Baroness Scotland : Show Or We Tell
Attorney Generalâs Office : No Comment on Documentation Question
Perhaps we are seeing yet again how there is one rule for them and another for us?
Guido says...
Who will hold our executive to account?
Baroness Scotland was appointed by Gordon Brown to be governmentâs chief legal adviser. Prior to becoming Attorney General she worked as a minister in the Home Office, cracking down on illegal migrants and imposing tougher penalties on business and individuals who employ them was passed.
The Daily Mail has Baroness Scotland bang-to-rights, yet she says she did not knowingly employ the Tongan illegal immigrant, Loloahi Tapui, and her spokesman says the Attorney General âsaw documents which led her to believe that Ms Tapui was entitled to work in this countryâ when she hired her. There is only one statutory defence against conviction for employing an illegal worker under section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 â the act specifies that you get this defence only by checking and copying certain original documents belonging to your employee.
The Home Office guidance on this is clear â you will only be able to establish the defence by checking and copying specified documents, including the passport and âany page containing UK Government endorsements indicating that the holder has an entitlement to be in the UK and is entitled to undertake the work in question.â
The Daily Mail has Baroness Scotland bang-to-rights, yet she says she did not knowingly employ the Tongan illegal immigrant, Loloahi Tapui, and her spokesman says the Attorney General âsaw documents which led her to believe that Ms Tapui was entitled to work in this countryâ when she hired her. There is only one statutory defence against conviction for employing an illegal worker under section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 â the act specifies that you get this defence only by checking and copying certain original documents belonging to your employee.
The Home Office guidance on this is clear â you will only be able to establish the defence by checking and copying specified documents, including the passport and âany page containing UK Government endorsements indicating that the holder has an entitlement to be in the UK and is entitled to undertake the work in question.â
Baroness Scotland : Show Or We Tell
Attorney Generalâs Office : No Comment on Documentation Question
Perhaps we are seeing yet again how there is one rule for them and another for us?
Guido says...
It is a fundamental rule of politics that law makers can not be law breakers â particularly when they are the highest law officer in the land. The letter asks the Attorney General to show publicly the legally required documentation or face being reported to the UK Border Agency later todayâ¦