Scandal as Britain’s richest solicitors struck off for £37,000 a day mining fraud
19, December 2008
Two solicitors whose Doncaster based firm pocketed £136 million from the government compensation scheme for sick miners have been struck off after a ruling from the Solicitor’s Disciplinary Tribunal.
Jim Beresford and Doug Smith of Beresfords Solicitors were found guilty of serious misconduct in their treatment of former miners and their widows.
The firm handled nearly 100,000 compensation claims, the fees for which were covered in full by a £6.9 billion fund set up by the...
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ACCIDENT LINE PROTECTED: Court of Appeal hand down final judgment in Accident Line Litigation.
12, December 2008
The Court of Appeal has finally decided that there is no disclosure required by solicitors who recommended the Accident Line Protect insurance policy under CFAs governed by the old CFA Regulations 2000. Garrett will not apply.
In what their Lordships described, with a penchant for the melodramatic, as “another round in what have become known as the costs wars” , a new test of the meaning of “interest” was expounded. Essentially, for an interest in recommending a premium to be declarable under...
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