HARINGEY: Lap-dancing obsession strips lawyer of right to practice

8:03am Sunday 18th May 2008

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A Highgate lawyer from one of Britain's top law firms has been thrown out of the profession for blowing over £200,000 of his company's cash on strippers.

High-flying lawyer Paul Saffron, 43, from Stanhope Road, raided the company account at Radcliffes Le Brasseur for three years, taking a total of £223,203.

The law firm called the police when it discovered a £104,000 deficit in the accounts.

Saffron claimed he was clinically depressed, but on May 8 the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal ignored his pleas and kicked him out of the profession.

Hilary Morris, from the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority, said: "Whatever the motive may have been is of little concern to these proceedings. You are a ruined man."

Last year the lawyer was jailed for 12 months after he admitted 38 charges of theft from May 2003 to September 2006.