Beresfords - miners' compensation solicitors struck off

[frogwoman]

This is just plain wrong. Anyone who pulls a scam like that should be barred from setting up a business for five years at least.

neckshots.

 

[frogwoman]

it isn't about who they were

some of them could have been wife beating alcoholics

doesn't mean it's ok for some shady lawyer types to steal their money. it's not about sympathy for the victims, it's more about anger for the criminals

yep.

 

[tbaldwin]

The fact that it's UDM makes us even more right.

What did Arthur Scargill and the NUM do when all this was going on ?

 

[danny la rouge]

eNumbers posted two threads discussing this scumbag's new mansion, built with his ill-gotten gains. They've bitten the dust, presumably because of the address being in the posts (although it is in the public domain).

Perhaps the discussion could continue without directly quoting the address?

 

[e19896]

eNumbers posted two threads discussing this scumbag's new mansion, built with his ill-gotten gains. They've bitten the dust, presumably because of the address being in the posts (although it is in the public domain).

Perhaps the discussion could continue without directly quoting the address?

The info is here

Fucking scum and so named solicitor Ian Firth, Whose South Yorkshire firm made £78 million from sick miners‘ compensation is splashing out on a palatial new pad in Sheffield.

Built in the late 19th century the building functioned as a private residence until the 1940’s when it was purchased by the Coal Board for offices, they continued to use the building until the late 1960’s when ownership passed over to what we now know as the Department for Work & Pensions. They altered the original building and constructed a series of extensions to provide residential conference accommodation. The site was acquired by Ian Firth and a local developer and divided into two halves, our client gaining ownership of the original building.
Arch bastard, Ian Firth, senior partner at the disgraced Barnsley law firm Raleys - who were found guilty of ripping off miners, is using his ill gotten gains to renovate the £4.5m Ranmoor Hall, a huge Victorian stately pile built in 1881 for a cutlery baron.


Once completed in the summer, the property will be one of Sheffield’s most exclusive - and expensive - addresses.

Who say’s crime doesn’t pay? It does if you’re a bent solicitor!

David Shelbourne, of Worsbrough, Barnsley, whose father-in-law Arthur Tinker did not live to see his compensation, said: “I wish I could afford to do that. I think it’s disgusting.”

Imposing Ranmoor Hall, on a private drive off leafy Belgrave Road in Ranmoor, has been gutted and a large team of contractors is currently working at the site surrounded by security fencing.

Our ‘friends’ in Sheffield still found it a very interesting place to visit, with nicer weather just round the corner it would be the perfect site for a free party - maybe a rave to raise money for mining communities who will be struggling in the current economic climate!

For those who don’t know the full, sick story Firth was suspended by the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal, along with fellow Raleys solicitors David Barker, 44, banned for two years, and Jonathan Markham, 46, who received a six-month bar from practising. Three junior partners at the firm were fined. They were found guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor, acting other than in clients’ best interests.

Agree with the post been removed if you want to read it in full then goto here hope this means of getting the info out is cool, and dose not place urban at risk however small.

 

[Geri]

I really do not understand why these people haven't been sent to prison for fraud. If the Government paid their fees and they also charged the client for it.

 

[e19896]

I really do not understand why these people haven't been sent to prison for fraud. If the Government paid their fees and they also charged the client for it.

Should see his current home, and the new one being done up at the moment we had a drive out in the rain, easy to find see link on my last reply, strange how he would not speak with us or invite us in for a cup of tea, anyhow we are shure the posters and info going up soon to inform the people he lives amongst of his crimes, will ensure the knowledge is local and the former http://www.ranmoorhall.co.uk/ was an office for the former coal board The miners' strike of 1984/1985 was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.

It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement. It was also seen as a major political and ideological victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.

 

[aylee]

Bumping this thread .... Beresford's appeal against his striking off has been dismissed by the High Court.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2009/3155.html

In relation to the payments in respect of referrals from the UDM and the linked companies, the court upheld the SRT's finding of dishonesty:

.... we are sure that these were not genuine payments for genuine services and that the appellants knew that they were not. They dishonestly assented to the terms of the document intending, if necessary, to mislead anyone who might question the genuineness of the payments. The Tribunal properly found against the appellants on these allegations and the appeals in respect of them are dismissed.

Good.