Sandhu is amongst 25 lawyers struck off over decade

A LONDONDERRY solicitor jailed for 10 years in 2009 for inciting loyalist paramilitaries to murder was amongst 25 solicitors removed from the roll over the past decade.

By The Newsroom

Published 5th Mar 2012, 11:18 BST

Mr Sandhu was jailed in 2009 and struck off the solicitors’ roll following a disciplinary tribunal early last year.

The former Limavady-based lawyer was amongst three solictors struck off in Northern Ireland in 2011.

Since 2003 at least two solicitors have been struck off every year across the province, although no barristers have been disbarred during the same period.

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson revealed the amount of solicitors removed from the roll in response to an Assembly Question.

He said the figures obtained by the Department from the Law Society referred to the number of solicitors

removed from the roll of solicitors by the independent Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal on grounds of

professional misconduct over the past 10 years.

Mr Wilson said The Bar Council indicated that no barristers were disbarred by it within the last 10 years.