The jailing of a solicitor caught plotting murder when police bugged his conversations with suspected terrorist clients will provide a salutary reminder to the whole profession about the standards required of them, a court heard today.

A SOLICITOR secretly taped during meetings with paramilitary suspects tried to have a wounded taxi driver assassinated before he could speak to police, a court heard yesterday.

A court in the North has heard claims that a Co Derry solicitor tried to have a taxi driver who was injured in a shooting last year assassinated before he could speak to the police.