Lawyers advertise in jails

LAWYERS are using magazines in prisons and detention centres to advertise their deportation-busting services to illegal migrants.

Inside Time, a monthly prison publication with a print circulation of 50,000, even featured an ad in Albanian on asylum consultations from London firm Lexmark Legal.

Other firms advertising include Queens Court Law, which promotes its work in deportation appeals and modern slavery cases. Tory MP Peter Bone said of the ads: ‘I have nothing but contempt for lawyers who do this. Many of these people would not have suffered slavery. It’s just a way of keeping them here.’

Lexmark Legal said its ad was for Albanian victims of trafficking and it did not assist violent, sexual or persistent offenders.

Queens Court Law did not respond to requests for comment.