Allegations against Kamlesh Bahl, vice-president of the Law Society, have cost her her job.
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She resigned following a vote by the governing body of the Law Society to suspend her on the strength of a report by Lord Griffiths, a law lord, who upheld complaints of bullying by five members of staff.
Bahl complained the decision to suspend was made in her absence and without hearing her side of the story.