Tag: Sir Geoffrey Cox QC
BVI premier arrested on drug charges in Miami
(CNS): The premier of the British Virgin Islands, Andrew Fahie, has been arrested in the United States on charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering. According to various US news reports, he was arrested at a Miami-area airport by federal agents on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the US and money laundering. […]
Speaker’s ex-UK lawyer in hot water over work for OTs
(CNS): Sir Geoffrey Cox QC, a member of the British Parliament, is coming in for some serious criticism in the UK over legal work he has been doing in the overseas territories. Cox, the MP for Torridge and West Devon and a former attorney general for England and Wales, successfully represented Speaker McKeeva Bush in […]
Bush’s lawyer sorry over failure to declare earnings
(CNS): The conservative backbench MP and barrister, Geoffrey Cox QC, has apologised to the UK parliament and referred himself to its Standards Committee after failing to report money he earned for hundreds of hours of legal work. The extra earnings over and above his salary as the representative for Torridge and West Devon was for work […]
