Personal Injury CMC boss receives short custodial sentence
Posted on November 17, 2018 by Jeremy Barnett
The Director of Direct Assist, one of the country’s leading claims management companies, pleaded guilty to fraudulent removal of approximately £50,000 following the insolvency of the company, and failing to cooperate with the Liquidator, at Bolton Crown Court on Wednesday 21st November 2018.
The prosecution brought by the Insolvency Service, originally charged Mr Bullough with a number of offences including failure to prepare and submit company records. At trial the Defendant pleaded guilty to two offences which took the matter into a lower sentencing category which was considered by the Judge, HH Judge Stead.
Although the Judge imposed a short custodial sentence of 21 months for the offences, he declined to suspend the operation of the sentence.
For more details, see the Bury Advertiser report 15th November below
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Jeremy Barnett MBL lecture on Interventions and SRA internal hearings
Posted on November 17, 2018 by Jeremy Barnett
Jeremy Barnett is joining a group of distinguished speakers for an MBL conference on SRA Regulation and Professional Conduct. He will be dealing with the difficult subject of interventions, where the Law Society decide to close down a law firm where they have reason to suspect dishonesty or other serious conduct breaches.
He will also be covering appeals against internal SRA decisions, and appeals against those decisions.
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