A law firm owner has been rebuked after the Upper Tribunal declared an application for judicial review made by an immigration caseworker at his firm as totally without merit.

Ignatius Etukudoh told the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) that “lessons have been learned” as a result of the case.

Mr Etukudoh is the sole director of Alpha Springs Solicitors in East London. According to an SRA notice, a non-qualified caseworker at the firm applied to the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal in December 2022 for permission to apply for a judicial review of a Home Office decision made in respect of ‘Client A’.

In March 2023, the Upper Tribunal refused the application and certified it as totally without merit, subsequently making a wasted costs order of £1,492 against the firm.

The SRA reviewed

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