Regulation Of Immigration Advisors

EDM number 785 in 1995-96, proposed by Robert Parry on 24/04/1996.

That this House is appalled at the case of bogus immigration advisor John Bulled, jailed for eight years for raping young women who consulted him for legal advise; is concerned at the lack of any system of regulation or licensing of such advisors, a situation which has resulted in vulnerable people paying large sums of money to unscrupulous self-styled immigration 'experts' in the expectation of receiving specialist legal advice and representation only to discover that their claims have been disadvantaged by the activities of these 'experts'; and calls on Her Majesty's Government, in consultation with the Law Society and the Immigration Law Practitioners Association, to introduce a scheme for regulation of immigration advice practitioners.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.