This was all designed to fund a lavish lifestyle for him and his wife Lorraine, 54. Craxton, who qualified in November 1983, was granted immunity from prosecution along with other lawyers after agreeing to give evidence against the McLarens during their trial at the High Court in Glasgow. The case became Scotland’s longest ever trial and saw McLaren convicted of 29 charges and jailed for 11-and-a-half years. Craxton, of Dumbarton, had removed himself from the roll of solicitors but the case went before the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) after the Law Society decided they still had to act. The SSDT panel ruled he should never be allowed to return to the profession and branded his action “serious and reprehensible”.
Will Brexit make it harder to buy photo gear from the EU?
January 7, 2021
Now Brexit has finally happened, concern has been expressed that the new trading arrangements could make it more difficult and expensive for photographic dealers to sell equipment to UK-based buyers.
Paul O’Sullivan, for example, has a small business importing Minox specialist cameras and other optical equipment from Germany. “Some photographic shops in Germany and Holland have now stopped supplying to the UK, because of the new VAT rules for EU businesses supplying goods over £135,” Paul observes.
“In short, any EU business who sells anything to a UK-based customer has to pay the VAT proportion directly to HMRC (see the rules in full here). HMRC suggest that you use a customs facilitation agent or you do the paperwork and pay the duty yourself. In effect, EU businesses must register with a tax office using a language they may now speak, using forms they may not understand, to pay tax which they ma