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Originally Posted by Nidge
What John Mann the MP who took the firm to court didn't mention was, the amount of money paid out by Berresfords in taking British Coal to court fighting for the money the miners got for instance, it was Berresfords who started the deafness claims with British Coal, it was Berresfords who started the Vibration white finger claim against the Coal Board, it was Berresfords who started the chest claims against the Coal Board. If Berresfords hadn't started these claims in the first place the miners mentioned wouldn't have got ANY compensation. Berresords forked out money when all the other Solicitors walked away because they thought it was a non starter.
Berresfords acted for my late father with his claim for his chest illness, my father got one of the highest payouts in Nottighamshire which was in the £100,000+ area all he had to pay Berresfords was £275, for this £275 they took the calim to court, they acted on behalf of you when it came to you getting a fair claim, they even paid for you to have a private medical, they made sure the claim ran smoothly.
So Basically if it wasn't for Berresfords taking a risk with the Vibration white finger, deafness, and chest claims the miners woudn't have got any money from British Coal, they forked out money when all the other firms ran away.
John Mann is a very bitter man indeed.
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I'm sorry Nidge but there is no way that the firm did all this for just £275. That's about one hour's worth of work. The medical alone is likely to have cost that much, and unless he had an exemption then just issuing proceedings - depending on when it was - would have cost 2 or 3 times that amount. They will have taken this money AND been paid by the DTI.
It's the topping up of fees and the way they advised clients to take cases on under CFAs because they were better for Beresfords not the clients that got them in doodoo.
Oh and Osem, the reason not every complaint results in a solicitor being struck off is because the overwhelming majority of complaints are for trivial reasons, whinges that they didn't get the outcome they wanted, rejected because they haven't bothered going through the solicitors own complaints procedure without a good reason, or minor stuff like delays and poor communication that doesn't warrant striking off. Oh, and the fact that there aren't even 17000 solicitors around to be reported
Since the only professional thing about that site is the logo they stole off the LCS I would't put much faith in anything that's there if I were you
