There are three features which are worryingly recurrent: (1) the propensity to allege fraud and
dishonesty against solicitors without proper analysis of the facts or proper supporting evidence capable of satisfying the high (criminal) standard of proof, (2) the overloading of the document and / or (3) lack of specificity.
Not exact matches
This means that the Law Society can allege
dishonesty or fraud
against a
solicitor in a fi rst r 5 statement, require the
solicitor to instruct me to spend 50 hours in conferences preparing a response to the
dishonesty allegation and then withdraw the allegation later without any costs sanction whatsoever.
Claims were made
against Karim
Solicitors by former clients for the return of misappropriated money; the ARP sought a declaration that it was not obliged to indemnify Karim
Solicitors on the basis that these claims arose out of
dishonesty and / or fraud committed or condoned by all three of the Karims.