Mr Michael William Wainwright
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View recordMichael Wainwright, on or about 14 December 2011, undertook the general conduct of a lay client?s affairs without being properly qualified, as a Public Access Practitioner to do so, by having undertaken and completed the appropriate training and by being registered with the Bar Council as a Public Access Practitioner as required by Rule 2 (i) of the Public Access Rules in that he accepted instructions from B, on behalf of L, to submit an application for discretionary leave to remain to the UK Border Agency (?UKBA?). Such conduct amounted to a serious failure, in itself, but also by reason of his failure to comply with other provisions of the Code of Conduct.
Michael Wainwright engaged in conduct which was dishonest or otherwise discreditable to a barrister in that, on various dates between 14 December 2011 and 8 March 2012, he represented to B that he had sent L's application form for discretionary leave to remain to the UKBA on or before 23 December 2011 so that it would reach the UKBA before 31 December 2011, the date on which L?s entitlement to remain would otherwise expire, when he knew or ought to have known that such representations were false.
