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Who: Tamsin Allen, 49, media and information law partner at London firm Bindmans. Why is she in the news? Acted for Hackney resident Leslie Austin who during the August 2011 London riots helped victims and the police, but in May 2012 found that his photograph was on wanted posters in shops and other public places and also on a police website for having been ‘involved in the disorder’. The police were quick to accept that he had acted as a ‘model citi...More news:
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