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The corrupt British solicitor’s portfolio!

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Two solicitors charged in alleged £50m mortgage fraud

Two solicitors have today been charged in an alleged £50m commercial mortgage fraud.

The solicitors appeared at City of London Magistrates Court today after being charged with offences in connection with a series of high value
commercial mortgage frauds.

Mark Knights of Cheshire (born 20/06/64) and Kamran Malik of Birmingham (born17/01/79) are charged with three counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception.

The proceedings are to be transferred to Southwark Crown Court.

http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/mortgag ... 73.article

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Solicitor charged with theft

A Lincolnshire solicitor has been charged with stealing over a quarter of a million pounds from her former clients.

Jacquelina Laverick, who practised under the name Jacqui Johns, appeared at Grantham Magistrates’ Court last week charged with 11 offences of theft totalling more than £250,000, and eight charges of money laundering.

Laverick was a salaried partner and head of the wills and probate department at the Grantham office of Chattertons. Four others were charged with money laundering and possession of criminal property.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solici ... rged-theft

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Wigan solicitor charged with nine counts of theft

Martin John Davy, 46, of Ridgeway, Lowton, Wigan, is charged with nine counts of theft, and two of false accounting, police said.

He is due to appear before magistrates in Manchester on 26 April.
The charges relate to alleged incidents at two firms of solicitors in Greater Manchester between 2004 and 2008, a police spokesman said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 604394.stm

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Two solicitors accused over file-sharing ‘bully tactics’

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred two solicitors from London firm Davenport Lyons to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over claims that the firm sent ‘bullying’ letters accusing hundreds of people of illegal file-sharing.

Consumer group Which? complained to the SRA in 2008 that Davenport Lyons partner David Gore and former partner Brian Miller had engaged in ‘bullying’ and ‘excessive’ conduct, while acting on behalf of client copyright holders.

It said the firm had sent out hundreds of letters, demanding compensation and costs for copyright infringements, and threatening court action.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/two-so ... ly-tactics

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Solicitor charged clients by weight of their file

A solicitor has admitted calculating how much he would charge the estates of dead clients by weighing their files in his hand.

Trevor Hobden, 47, was struck off after the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal heard that he charged almost triple the proper fee and billed for thousands of pounds when he had done no work at all.

Asked by investigators how he calculated fees Hobden said: 'When you cost a file you put it in your hand and weigh it.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -file.html

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Solicitor charged with £250,000 fraud

A Kent-based solicitor is due in court today, facing multiple fraud and money laundering chargers.

It is claimed that he could have benefitted from the fraud by up to £250,000.
58 year-old Derek Speed, from Canterbury, was charged last month and freed on bail to appear at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court on June 10.

http://www.bridgingandcommercial.co.uk/newsstory?
id=1045&type=newsfeature&title=solicitor_charged_with_250,000_fraud

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Leicester solicitor charged with murder tried to 'fob off' his clients

Clients of a solicitor charged with murder say they were "fobbed off" with excuses as he tried to cover up stealing their cash to fund his lavish lifestyle.

Customers of city law firm Corts and Co gave evidence at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday in the trial of John Cort and Brian Farrell.

Solicitor Cort is accused of hiring Farrell to kill his business partner, Vina Patel, in the hope he could claim a £1.5m life assurance pay-out.

The prosecution alleges he needed the 51-year-old dead to cover spiralling debts, which included more than £650,000 they say he stole from nine clients the firm was representing in the sale or purchase of homes.

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/n ... ticle.html

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Struck off solicitor charged with theft from clients

A STRUCK-OFF Merseyside lawyer was charged with stealing thousands of pounds from clients and his firm.

Martin Davy, 46, allegedly pilfered money from a trust fund set up to handle the compensation for a victim of sexual abuse by the Irish Catholic Church. He is also accused of stealing more than £16,000 from his firm.

He was yesterday charged by police with nine counts of theft and two counts of false accounting between May, 2004, and November, 2008. They also asked for a further theft charge to be taken into consideration.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal heard a case against him in March, when he was barred from being a lawyer.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liv ... -26189376/

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Accused solicitor stands for office

The Law Society was embroiled in a new controversy last night when it emerged that a candidate for a seat on its ruling council is a solicitor who faces a £1.6m fraud trial and failed to mention the fact in his election statement.
Paul Baxendale-Walker, 38, and another accused, were charged in November 2000 with defrauding the pension fund of a now defunct manufacturing business. The serious fraud office, which is handling the prosecution, said the trial was expected to last three to four months and was due to start in September.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jun/28/claredyer