Dear Mr Poultney
Thank you for the email. Sorry I was unable
to respond sooner.
The ILEX procedure is to wait for the LCS /
SRA complaint to conclude before it can consider a complaint. Therefore you should
wait for those complaints to be concluded first.
Kind regards
Mrs Baljeet Basra
Professional Standards Manager
ILEX Professional
Standards Ltd (IPS)
Kempston Manor,
Kempston.
Fax 01234 840989
web site www.ilex.org.uk
ILEX Professional Standards
Limited, registered in
From: Spenser Poultney
[mailto:spenser@lcs-test.co.uk]
Sent: 03 February 2009 01:09
To: Baljeet Basra
Subject: Fw: New Complaint - FDC Law,
BA3 2DF
Importance: High
Dear Mrs. Basra,
Thank you for your recent email. My email of December
is below complete with the attachments also sent.
I suppose what I really want to know from ILEX is...
1. Will ILEX deal with a complaint against
a Member whilst the LCS/SRA also have a complaint open against solicitors of
the same firm?
2. Is it worth me completing a complaints
form at this time? or should I wait on the SRA?
3. If I DO need to complete a form, please
can I have one and any guidance notes you may have?
You will find some of my deeper concerns here:-
With ILEX Members getting even more "power" there
is clearly even more need for proper regulation of Members. If ILEX must
still play "second fiddle" to the Law Society then this will be a
widening "loophole". Please accept that I DON'T know what has
happened since the Legal Services Act or what other changes are planned.
Is there anyone (senior) in ILEX who can address these general concerns?
I think many members of the general public would be relieved if there is some
"official" assurances over these concerns. If not I suppose we
must write to our MP's and/or the OLSCC - but please forward this email to
anyone you think can help.
Many Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Spenser Poultney
----- Original Message -----
From: Spenser
Poultney
Sent: Tuesday, December
23, 2008 12:32 AM
Subject: New Complaint -
FDC Law, BA3 2DF
Dear Sirs,
As a "heads up" I attach a 9-page document and a
covering letter - both MS Word Documents. Signed hard-copies were
posted first class, "signed for", on 19th December 2008 to the
address on your web site http://www.legalcomplaints.org.uk/how-to-contact-us.page.
However, the Post Office informed me that the "8, Dormer Place"
address now comes up on their system as "Norton & Company,
Solicitors" (???)
Given the vagaries of the Christmas post and the query over
your current address, I ask you, please, to acknowledge receipt of this
email.
I also ask ILEX and the Bar Council to acknowledge
receipt. In ILEX's case I do not expect that you will take up the
complaint against Elaine Pitman until the LCS/SRA has dealt with the solicitor
complaints (unless things have changed?) - but please acknowledge receipt
nonetheless.
In the case of the Bar Council I need to know which
complaints you will now address? There are OLD complaints against
Catriona Duthie - but since the Court did not conclude that District Judge
Rutherford had been misled (in 2003) until 25th June 2008 - these complaints
could not be brought (properly) any earlier. The same goes for SOME of
the complaints against David Curwen - others are later but we were STILL
missing pieces of the puzzle until October 2008 (all thanks to Nigel Long for
trying to justify his own misconduct).
The third attachment, the PDF should interest you
ALL...
Top marks go to the ALCD. Nigel
Long was only a "minor player" (though a long-running one) in this
Firm's misconduct - and yet his fine was £5,000 with £500 costs -
nor did the ALCD have to wait on others (e.g. ILEX waiting on the Law
Society) in order to take action. The two heads upon which the
ALCD has already found are the first two heads against FDC Law...
Indeed, we see the stunt that the "Incompetent" (H H J Cardinal,
2005) Patricia Wayman pulled in 2004 being mimicked in 2008 by her
arrogant and stupid understudy, Ben Whelan. May I
suggest this would NOT have happened if the Law Society had been even 10%
as good at the ALCD at enforcing it's own rules? Disciplinary action
against this firm is long overdue and this repeat performance by Whelan shows
that disciplinary action is probably the ONLY way to bring this firm into line
and to protect the public from their incompetence [SIC], dishonesty and
greed.
Beyond acknowledging receipt I do not expect any further
action this side of the New Year. Over the break I will flesh-out the
complaints (particularly for ILEX and the Bar Council) to make life easier for
you. Please navigate to http://www.lcs-test.co.uk/HomeNav.htm and
follow the links on the left hand side (more will appear over the
holiday). When this work is complete I expect to re-send the attached
MS-Word document with updated (working) links for your ease of navigation and
to assist your understanding.
Many thanks,
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas etc
Spenser Poultney
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