Britain\'s Attorney General fined

The British government\'s attorney-general, Baroness Patricia Scotland, has been fined approximately 8,000 pounds after being found in breach of the rules on employing migrant workers.



Dominica-born Baroness Scotland is reported to have employed a housekeeper from Tonga who did not have the right to work in Britain.



The office of Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, says although the matter is serious it doesn’t merit her resignation because the offence was unintentional.



Laws which the Attorney General herself helped to pass through parliament when she was a Home Office minister state that employers must verify the right of their staff to work in Britain.