Legal Services Commission. 4 Abbey Orchard Street London SW1P 2BS
Colin Stutt, a barrister, is a legal adviser to the Legal Services Commission, where he works on both legal and policy issues and regularly acts as a spokesman for the Commission. He has involvement in high profile cases, group actions, clinical negligence, the principles of funding, alternative dispute resolution and the European Convention on Human Rights. He drafted procedures to restrict clinical negligence work to particular firms. He was responsible for drawing up the Funding Code under which the Commission funds litigation.
This man determines the outcome of key Group Actions. He allocates work to friendly, ie corrupt, law firms so that claimants are swindled out of deserved compensation. In this way he protects Government and its pals by perverting the course of justice. A stark example is the way that victims of the first Gulf War found their claims being handled by corrupt firm Hodge Jones and Allen. Stutt controlled the funding of the action ensuring that the victims lost. The performance of Hodge Jones and Allen, Stutt’s chosen firm, was so outrageous that it became the subject of a House of Lords debate and the Countess of Mar led a deputation to the Legal Services Commission where Stutt declared his satisfaction with Hodge Jones and Allen’s performance but could only bluster when facts about HJA’s performance were presented. He also controlled the swindle of the MMR vaccine victims, using Hodge Jones and Allen again and introducing a new funding code in June 2003 so that funding could be withdrawn.
David Keegan plays a key role in protecting Government through controlling the funding and handling of key cases. He runs a unit that operates under different names eg Special Cases Unit, High Costs Cases Unit. In reality his job is to ensure that cases embarrassing to Government are steered in the right direction. He does this by ensuring that cases are handled by a clique of friendly firms. He also uses straightforward bribery by operating a scale of payments but going outside that scale when it suits him. He has shown a special interest in terrorist cases and has linked very closely with Blair’s dodgy pals - Henry Hodge, whose firm was given the Gulf War and MMR Group Action contracts and who went on to be President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. Hodge’s firm was permitted to claim £198 an hour for the work of unqualified staff in 1998, contrast that with Keegan’s proposal that a QC's fees for trial preparation work should be between £91 to £145 an hour. In the MMR litigation the three QCs appointed to represent the claimants were given £1.5m for running the action up a blind alley.
John Baker is a solicitor who works for the Legal Services Commission. He is based in Bristol but, strangely, was made case worker for the MMR litigation that was being run in London, where he was subordinate to Stutt and Keegan. He helped ensure that the entire action was guided to destruction and the damaged children were denied justice.
Thursday 25 February 2010
BEWARE
Clifford George Miller, Burnhill Business Centre, 50 Burnhill Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3LA,
This incompetent solicitor even got stitched up in court by his non-lawyer wife and he was left bereft. His business has gone down the pan and he’ll be looking for suckers. He advertises his firm as being based at a business unit in Beckenham; it isn’t, he no longer has that unit and his firm is defunct. In the meantime he’s been spin-doctoring for phony Doctor Andrew Wakefield in a way that will make Wakefield’s fall more painful. He concocted a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission against Times Newspapers in order to stop stories exposing Wakefield’s misdemeanors. That complaint will now come back to haunt Wakefield.
This incompetent solicitor even got stitched up in court by his non-lawyer wife and he was left bereft. His business has gone down the pan and he’ll be looking for suckers. He advertises his firm as being based at a business unit in Beckenham; it isn’t, he no longer has that unit and his firm is defunct. In the meantime he’s been spin-doctoring for phony Doctor Andrew Wakefield in a way that will make Wakefield’s fall more painful. He concocted a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission against Times Newspapers in order to stop stories exposing Wakefield’s misdemeanors. That complaint will now come back to haunt Wakefield.
NOT A SOLICITOR
Alan Care. Described as a “lawyer” and “senior litigation executive” this man has for years been misrepresented as a solicitor. He is nothing of the sort. He was a member of the Institute of Legal Executives until his membership was terminated. He worked for Leigh Day until he got the boot. He then worked at Russell Jones and Walker before joining Thomson Snell and Passmore. Described as a “shyster” by solicitor Richard Barr of Dawbarns, he suppressed key evidence in the OP sheep dips litigation. Despite being unqualified he has been one of England’s key Personal Injury operators. His trick is to take cases against powerful opponents and then to get paid off by those opponents, leaving his clients with next to nothing. He worked this scam in cahoots with QC John Melville Williams, now retired. Clients could accept the situation he had created or face the threat of bankruptcy. That trick that is in common use by English lawyers. Now at Thomson Snell & Passmore 3 Lonsdale Gardens Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1NX
Monday 15 February 2010
MORE LEGAL INTERFERENCE
Jim Moody is an American lawyer and a NeoCon “Advocate for a Competitive Economy”. He has been acting for “Wakefield Inc” the corrupt empire of Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield Inc aims to make money out of vulnerable parents of autistic children and Moody has been trying to protect the criminal empire by making bogus allegations against witnesses. He’s done this from the safety of the US. His latest blunder is to circulate on the internet material that Justice Keith ordered was confidential to the claimants and could only be used with their claims. But who gave him that material, Andrew Wakefield?
Moody has been working with Clifford Miller to disrupt Brian Deer's expose of Wakefield. They concocted allegations against Deer and sent them to the Press Complaints Commission. Now they want to postpone the consideration of those complaints.
Wakefield is said to have resigned from his lucrative position in Thoughtful House. Untrue, he was sacked because he besmirches the name of Thoughtful House. He may also find that Polly Tommey is not as receptive to his advances as she previously was.
Moody has been working with Clifford Miller to disrupt Brian Deer's expose of Wakefield. They concocted allegations against Deer and sent them to the Press Complaints Commission. Now they want to postpone the consideration of those complaints.
Wakefield is said to have resigned from his lucrative position in Thoughtful House. Untrue, he was sacked because he besmirches the name of Thoughtful House. He may also find that Polly Tommey is not as receptive to his advances as she previously was.
LEGAL INTERFERENCE
Abel Hadden
Works for the PR firm Bell Pottinger. Interferes in legal matters by trying to get favourable media coverage, including the suppression of stories. He represented dodgy doctor Wakefield and his phony charity, Visceral. Why does a doctor and a small charity need an expensive PR man? Did Visceral’s Chairman, Nick Lander, wonder what was going on? Hadden has achieved nothing for Wakefield except to ensure that his fall is from a greater height.
Works for the PR firm Bell Pottinger. Interferes in legal matters by trying to get favourable media coverage, including the suppression of stories. He represented dodgy doctor Wakefield and his phony charity, Visceral. Why does a doctor and a small charity need an expensive PR man? Did Visceral’s Chairman, Nick Lander, wonder what was going on? Hadden has achieved nothing for Wakefield except to ensure that his fall is from a greater height.
Thursday 11 February 2010
Henry Hodge
Why has the Law Society so helpful to crooked solicitors? Henry Hodge, now deceased, was a Vice-President. Hodge set up his firm, Hodge Jones and Allen(HJA) with Jones and Allen at a meeting in the Freemasons Arms! He was a pal of Derry Irvine who went on to become Britain’s worst-ever Lord Chancellor. When Tony Blair and Cherie Booth joined Derry Irvine’s chambers HJA gave them briefs to get them started. Hodge and Patrick Allen were key promoters of the Blairs and invited them to settle in Islington where they met in each others’ homes designing the corrupt New Labour project. When Labour came to power it needed funds to pay off the huge debts it had run up. Blair made the corrupt deal with Bernie Ecclestone. There was also embarrassment over the way people had been exposed to unsafe pharmaceuticals so Blair made a deal with Big Pharma that is described in “Labour of Love” by Janet Jones, wife of Ivor Richard, a book dealing with Ivor Richard’s period as Lord Privy Seal in the Blair Government. 16th November 1997 “…the pharmaceutical industry is in and out of Downing Street. And the industry is giving money to New Labour. Ivor has a word with Margaret Jay. “yes,” she says. Where are the Pharma donations in Labour’s accounts?
Blair needed a corrupt law firm to protect Big Pharma and needed to pay off his old pal Henry Hodge, Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board. The Board gave the contracts for the three embarrassing Group Actions to Hodge’s firm, Hodge Jones and Allen, despite the fact that HJA had never tendered for the contracts. Lawyers’ complaint led to an inquiry by Hugh Glancy QC, but the Legal Aid Board denied that there had been an inquiry even though HJA admitted it publicly. Glancy’s report and the minutes of the meeting were kept a secret and HJA kept the contracts and was allowed to vastly overclaim eg £198 per hour for unqualified staff. Most of that money went into the pockets of the partners – Hodge and Allen. It was straightforward bribery, pay-back for Hodge, a member of Labour’s "1,000 Club" of leading party donors. Derry Irvine had made it clear that favoured lawyers would get be expected to make financial contributions to Labour. Derry Irvine resolved Hodge’s conflicted position by making him a judge! And this arch-swindler of legal aid sat on the Lord Chancellor’s advisory committee on legal aid. Hodge was then given another opportunity to help the Labour Party. He was made President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, where he was able to enforce the secret Labour plan to enhance its electoral position by manipulating immigration. But before Hodge became a judge, HJA set up the giant MMR-Autism scam by applying for funding from the Legal Aid Board to pursue the phony Wakefield theory. That sent the litigation up a blind alley, ensuring that damaged children would not be compensated, that Big Pharma and the Government would be protected while corrupt lawyers would profit. A similar job was done on the other two contracts that had been corruptly awarded to HJA, Gulf War and Sheep Dip. It’s ironic that Blair concocted Gulf War II while Blair’s corrupt pals ensured that the victims of Gulf War I were swindled out of compensation for their injuries.
Hodge’s links to a corrupt Government were enhanced by his wife - Margaret Hodge, who became a Labour Government Minister. Margaret Hodge was one of the Islington mob and she became Chair of the Council but denied resources to social workers, which led to resignations. Margaret Hodge got a job with Price Waterhouse. But when evidence emerged of child abuse in Islington children’s homes Margaret Hodge issued denials and slandered a victim, for which she was forced to apologise. She went on to become Children’s Minister in the Blair Government!
Patrick Allen set up his firm with Hodge and Jones at a meeting in the Freemasons Arms! He too played a key role in setting up the corrupt New Labour project with the Blairs.
Blair needed a corrupt law firm to protect Big Pharma and needed to pay off his old pal Henry Hodge, Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board. The Board gave the contracts for the three embarrassing Group Actions to Hodge’s firm, Hodge Jones and Allen, despite the fact that HJA had never tendered for the contracts. Lawyers’ complaint led to an inquiry by Hugh Glancy QC, but the Legal Aid Board denied that there had been an inquiry even though HJA admitted it publicly. Glancy’s report and the minutes of the meeting were kept a secret and HJA kept the contracts and was allowed to vastly overclaim eg £198 per hour for unqualified staff. Most of that money went into the pockets of the partners – Hodge and Allen. It was straightforward bribery, pay-back for Hodge, a member of Labour’s "1,000 Club" of leading party donors. Derry Irvine had made it clear that favoured lawyers would get be expected to make financial contributions to Labour. Derry Irvine resolved Hodge’s conflicted position by making him a judge! And this arch-swindler of legal aid sat on the Lord Chancellor’s advisory committee on legal aid. Hodge was then given another opportunity to help the Labour Party. He was made President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, where he was able to enforce the secret Labour plan to enhance its electoral position by manipulating immigration. But before Hodge became a judge, HJA set up the giant MMR-Autism scam by applying for funding from the Legal Aid Board to pursue the phony Wakefield theory. That sent the litigation up a blind alley, ensuring that damaged children would not be compensated, that Big Pharma and the Government would be protected while corrupt lawyers would profit. A similar job was done on the other two contracts that had been corruptly awarded to HJA, Gulf War and Sheep Dip. It’s ironic that Blair concocted Gulf War II while Blair’s corrupt pals ensured that the victims of Gulf War I were swindled out of compensation for their injuries.
Hodge’s links to a corrupt Government were enhanced by his wife - Margaret Hodge, who became a Labour Government Minister. Margaret Hodge was one of the Islington mob and she became Chair of the Council but denied resources to social workers, which led to resignations. Margaret Hodge got a job with Price Waterhouse. But when evidence emerged of child abuse in Islington children’s homes Margaret Hodge issued denials and slandered a victim, for which she was forced to apologise. She went on to become Children’s Minister in the Blair Government!
Patrick Allen set up his firm with Hodge and Jones at a meeting in the Freemasons Arms! He too played a key role in setting up the corrupt New Labour project with the Blairs.
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