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Solicitor abused client's child A solicitor has been
jailed for grooming the 10-year-old daughter of a client before abusing her.
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30 Aug |
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Shady lawyer left us in the cold J.W. writes: "I have a problem with the Law Society. I run a wholesale business selling beers, wines and spirits, and after a customer's cheque for £40,000 bounced, we cut off supplies. The customer said new finance was being raised and cash was imminent. We accepted an undertaking from the customer's solicitor that we would be paid in full, so supplies were reinstated. Well, the firm was refinanced, but we never received our cash as promised and we put the firm into liquidation".. Tony Hetherington replies: "LET'S name names. The company that owes you money is called Tockheath. When it went bust, you had received £16,500, leaving £23,500 due. And the solicitor who gave the dud promise to pay you is Barry Roberts. Writing on the notepaper of his firm, Roberts & Co of Sheffield, he said: 'As solicitors for and on behalf of Tockheath, we hereby undertake to discharge your outstanding account in the sum of £40,000 from the proceeds of the refinancing operation.' What could be clearer? Roberts was not writing on Tockheath notepaper, he did not sign himself as a director of Tockheath and he wrote as a solicitor, nothing else. But there is more to Roberts than meets the eye. Not long after he made his promise to you, his firm was shut down by the Law Society"... Read the full text, link on right:- |
30 Aug |
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Utter disregard for justice in the fast lane THAT most pernicious of closed shops - the lawyers' trades union - is alive and well and living at Stirling Sheriff Court, at least on the evidence of the case of Simon Hutchison and Sheriff Bob Brodie. |
28 Aug |
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Miners in line for legal aid refund, says minister MINERS who developed vibration white finger or lung disease as a consequence of their employment are entitled to a refund of any contributions they have made towards legal aid costs. |
26 Aug |
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Sex and briefs: novel sets
legal circles spinning The sexual antics and misbehaviour of some of the City's richest lawyers are uncovered in a novel that threatens to scandalise the legal profession... "Now the hunt is on to find the firm at the centre of the novel and unmask the identity of the author who has written Fish Sunday Thinking" (ISBN: 1845490312) |
26 Aug |
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FSA signs deal with police to help curb abuse The Financial Services Authority has enhanced its ability to pursue individuals suspected of market abuse by signing a new deal with police on the use of arrest powers and search warrants. |
23 Aug |
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Load of Hogwarts as Society harries ombudsman DIPLOMATIC courtesies were cast aside last week in the febrile debate over whether Scotland's legal profession should retain the right to police itself, after the deadline passed for responses to the Scottish Executive's consultation on complaints-handling. |
22 Aug |
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JP Morgan pays $1bn to settle Enron claim By:David Teather in New York JP Morgan Chase agreed yesterday to pay $1bn (£550m) to settle claims brought against it by Enron, bringing the total cost of the Wall Street bank's brush with the notorious energy firm to $3.2bn. |
18 Aug |
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Magistrates forced to give their names to press Court policy over keeping the names of magistrates out of the press has been overturned by the new boss of a weekly newspaper. |
18 Aug |
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Watchdog backs calls for reform of Law Scociety A consumer watchdog has added its weight to calls to strip Scotland's 10,000 lawyers of the right to police themselves – and wants to go even further by having the Law Society itself governed by a majority of non-solicitors. |
17 Aug |
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Law Society seeks tribunal to investigate complaints over solicitors THE body that deals with complaints against solicitors said yesterday that if the Scottish Executive wanted to give the public an independent complaints system it should set up an appeals tribunal funded at the taxpayer's expense. |
16 Aug |
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Jail for pension fund fraudster A businessman who raided £2m from a Scottish company's pension fund, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Danish businessman Bjorn Stiedl, 44, who was living in Surrey, was convicted at Southwark Crown Court last year of conspiracy to defraud. |
13 Aug |
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LAWYER STOLE £108K A FORMER solicitor faces jail after admitting embezzling £108,000 from clients when his firm plunged into debt. Calum Blyth latest |
13 Aug |
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Blunder to free crooks - with a cash payout THOUSANDS of convicted prisoners
could be released and paid large amounts of compensation because of a legal
loophole, the Yorkshire Post has learned. |
11 Aug |
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No win, no fee deals to be simplified By Bob Sherwood,Legal
Correspondent |
11 Aug |
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Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal publishes 2004 and 2005 reports |
06 Aug |
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Slopping out cash for prisoners increases to £44m PRISON chiefs increased to £44m their immediate budget for compensating prisoners forced to slop out, but there are signs the overall legal bill will be lower than previously feared. |
03 Aug |
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Blunder hands miners' solicitors £5m windfall Flawed
claims contracts leave taxpayers to foot the bill |
03 Aug |
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Solicitor struck off after using client fund A NORTH Yorkshire solicitor has been struck off after taking £20,000 from his firm's accounts to pay his utility bills. A solicitors' tribunal yesterday heard fellow partners at Northallerton firm Jefferson Willan and Co became concerned Roland Heslop-Gill was withdrawing excessive sums every month as salary. |
03 Aug |
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New move to curb legal bill rows New rules are coming into force which will cover contracts between solicitors and clients, aimed at limiting rows over bills. Complaints against solicitors are rising and the Law Society of Scotland wanted the changes to increase the transparency of its members' work. |
01 Aug |
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Down to letter of the law THE legal services ombudsman is urging the profession to counter the "mistrust" engendered by its inability to deal with the widespread complaints against solicitors of the mis-selling of mortgage endowments |
01 Aug |
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50,000 rapes each year but only 600 rapists sent to jail The statistics are shocking - and getting worse. The truth is that sexual assault in Britain has become a low-risk crime. In 1985 there was a 24 per cent conviction rate in rape trials. By 2003 it had fallen to 5 per cent. |
31 Jul |
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TV cameras 'to be let into court' TV cameras could be allowed into English and Welsh courtrooms on a regular basis from next year, according to a leaked government document. |
31 Jul |