Solicitors of African-Caribbean origin are six times as likely (and Asian solicitors three times as likely) as their white counterparts to be investigated by the SRA.
A Law Society spokesman said it would be "undemocratic and prejudicial" if the society were to tell Westminster solicitors of Mr Baxendale-Walker's impending trial.
It will now pay compensation to each of the children, without accepting liability in the case, it announced today in a joint statement with the solicitors of the families involved.
From late 1990 until early 1993 the address of APM1's registered office was that of Marriott Harrison, a firm of solicitors of which Mr Mullens was by then a partner.
"I would have expected your solicitors to have notified the vendor's solicitors of your losses at the time and to request that the vendor cover the cost by agreement," she says.
That leaves trust-fund heirs, solicitors of funds from special interests and an occasional self-made millionaire in his first elected office to populate Congress and national political offices.
