SOLICITOR'S BILL OF COSTS STRUCK OUT BECAUSE CLAIM WAS EXAGGERATED AND (IN PART) FALSE

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   Charles · November 11, 2014 at 21:18:19 · →

   Should the solicitors not be reported to the SRA? It seems to me that they have been found by a judge to have lied, presumably having signed a statement of truth.

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   simeon Coker · December 24, 2014 at 12:45:49 · →

   This case has been appealed. Permission has been granted and stay of execution has been granted by the Court of Appeal. The firm will be pursuing the substantive appeal. Please update your record.

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      gexall · December 24, 2014 at 14:51:44 · →

      Many thanks for you information on that. I don’t have a “record”. What (apart from your useful information) needs to be “updated”?

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         enquiries@alpharocksolicitors.co.uk · December 24, 2014 at 16:22:45 · →

          Dear Sir, Please find attached update on the above case.

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   Simeon Coker · December 24, 2014 at 16:01:18 · →

   Please supply your email contact so that a copy of the judgment can be sent to you.

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   gexall · December 25, 2014 at 01:51:13 · →

   GExall@zenithchambers.co.uk. There was no attachment to the e-mail you sent to the comment section. Many thanks.

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   Tim · December 25, 2014 at 21:30:21 · →

   The judgment is on Lawtel.

   On a tedious point of order, Mr Chairman, I don’t think it was the bills which were struck out: the claims on those bills were struck out, not the bills themselves.

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   Anthony Ibam · December 26, 2014 at 15:59:16 · →

   Thanks for the clarification Tim. I have also read the judgement several times, and I cannot find a justification for the claim being struck out. I am therefore not surprised that the court of appeal gave permission to appeal.

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   Tim · December 27, 2014 at 12:16:57 · →

   I can find plenty of reasons in the judgment for the striking out. Mr Coker will be able to clarify whether permission to appeal was granted by Kevin Prosser or by the Court of Appeal. Perhaps Alpha Rocks are appealing on the basis that that the Deputy Judge should have refrained from making findings of dishonesty without hearing oral evidence from the relevant witnesses.

   Maybe Alpha Rocks (or Teacher Stern Selby) will send Gordon a copy of (or post a link to) Alpha Rocks’ grounds of appeal and skeleton argument.

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