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'Curious Reader' Thankyou for your comments, all additions are appreciated. You have obviously read the content of this forum and therefore surely appreciate that this is a benefical site to the Elderly and Vulnerable. We see in no way that we have devalued this site, if anything, we have highlighted the need for this site, Thankyou www.whocallsme.com. We could not imagine why anyone would disagree with the affects that this is having on the aforementioned companies and the amount of people that have emailed to say they have cancelled appointments because they, like you, stumbled across this forum!! Also stated in an ealier post, we will have the clients £3 million worth.

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KW

KW, thanks for the quick response.

Your motives appear genuine and you should be applauded for that. If things are as bad as you and your associates say then I struggle to see why Trading Standards and the like have not moved to close these operations down.

Strange world we live in........

'Curious Reader' Thankyou for your comments, our motives are completely genuine and we believe that the powers that be will take the appropriate measures necessary. Watch this space!!!

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, a question we put to a professional body and the answer we received.

Q. Who would Clients of Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd take to a Small Claims Court when there is no one taking responsibility for the Company’s failings?

A. The Company itself has a legal identity so it’s the Company that would be taken to Court - there does not need to be any individual Director to defend the action. However, if in the view of the Court, and as is likely, there needs to be a Director present who can represent the mind and management of the Company then the Court has the power to reinstate Director(s) who previously resigned – typically this will be the Director who most recently resigned but could be one and/or all of the Directors if the Court thinks fit.

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KW

Three words...
Three class actions.

Endgame now.

abc123 and truthfinder do you know the whereabouts of JT today, we do very interesting.

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KW

do tell, this is so exciting.

abc123 Thankyou for your comments, maybe you could ask truthfinder to respond to the questions put to him/her. Or are you only interested in what the Dark Horse is doing?

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KW

your guesses are way off.. are you really going to lead me on and then not tell, tut tut.

abc123 Thankyou for your comments. Our guesses are way off from what exactly? So you do have an interest in the Dark Horse then, or there would have been no need for you to reply in the first instance, so we suggest we're not so far off.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

abc123 Thankyou for your comments (or should that be lack of). As we suspected, when the going gets tough.............

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KW

you connect the unconnected, and as for your JT, you posted to me so i thought i would be polite and reply/join in.
there are many things i would like to know, but 'dark horse' - not my pony

abc123 Thankyou for your comments. If we were real gamblers, our money would be on it being your JT/pony. What do you want to know? We may be able to assist.

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KW

not an interest of mine (though i have to say this is fun)

but if it was my horse i would want to know where it had been running, so i am sure some people watching this space would be interested

(you are a little trouble causer, but i like it lol)

Mrs MB c/o wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk Thankyou for your email and allowing us to publish it on the forum.

Dear Sir/Madam

We had a visit from Minster Legal Services of Gainsborough about 2 years ago. We’re sorry but we don’t remember his name but he was a big gentleman who had a driver with him.

We weren't aware anything was wrong until we received a letter from a company in Lincoln. We called Minster Legal Services and we were put through to a Mrs Joy Bell. She said that the Director of Minster had died and the Shareholders were in Doncaster. We googled Express Law and we found your forum and this email address.

We also called into Minster Legal Services offices and were told at the reception that Minster no longer trade there and the only company that was there now is National Legal Assistance and they are nothing to do with Minster.

We hope that you can help us in some way, as the company in Lincoln said we haven't got anything but a couple of forms which could easily have been printed off the internet for free, so they didn’t understand why we had paid as much as we did. They said they could do it for further payment but if they are connected to them why should we have to pay again?

We would appreciate any help or advice that you could give us. We are at our wits end as to what we should do.

Yours Sincerely,

MB

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Mrs MB Thankyou for your email we hope that the advice given will help in some way. It is so important for other site users to be made aware that the companies and people that you mention are taking large amounts of money for very little in return,or even nothing in some cases. we appreciate your support.

To all Readers just to clarify it is not proved that the firm in Lincoln are in anyway connected to  

Minster Legal Services (uk) Of Gainsborough,  
Express Law of Doncaster,  
Legal Assitance T/A,National Legal Assistance of Gainsborough,
Minster legal Services (midlands) of Grantham,
Minster Legal Associates (York),
Wills and Trusts of York,  
Legal Assitance 4 u  T/A National Legal Assistance 4 u of Newark

BEWARE OF THE COMPANIES LISTED ABOVE!!!!!

Thankyou for Reading.

KW

To all Readers, yet another news article (that was in The Mirror on Thursday 4th August 2011) on Gerald Malcolm Barton:

Gerald Barton's wills go down the pan

By Andrew Penman on August 3, 2011 11:00 PM in Investments

Maybe this counts as a step in the right direction.

When we first came across Gerald Barton 10 years ago, he'd been running a will-writing company which collapsed - and thousands of wills were dumped in a barn.

As we reported a couple of weeks ago, another of his operations, Minster Legal Services, has gone under.

Now we've learnt that this time the wills were dumped on the pavement in cardboard boxes.

Admittedly, the pavement was outside another will-writing firm, so that's an improvement.

The business lumbered with the ­unexpected mountain of paperwork had nowhere to store it apart from in its ­disabled toilet.

[PICTURE OF CURRENT STORAGE OF DOCUMENTATION BY MR MCMILLAN] <----http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011 ... -go-down-t.html

This can't be what Minster Legal clients had in mind when they paid £100 extra for secure storage.

The good news for unlucky clients of this disaster is that their documents are now in the safe hands of the Society of Will Writers, a non-profit-making ­voluntary regulator. The bad news is that the Society has examined the wills and other personal documents such as family property trusts and says that in "many cases" they are worthless.

[PICTURE OF MR MCMILLAN WITH SOME OF THE DOCUMENTAION FROM MINSTER LEGAL] <---http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011 ... -go-down-t.html

"I would say that the vast majority of grief in this industry is down to Barton," the Society's director general, Brian McMillan, told us. He's pictured above with a fraction of the recovered documents.

"He does not just keep a firm local, he sets up national companies, recruits reps nationally and so the ­problems become magnified."

On paper, Minster Legal was run by dodgy lawyer David Hodgson, who was ruled unfit to run a legal firm alone by the Solicitors ­Regulation Authority.

In February this year he died and the firm went under.

But a regular visitor to the office in Gainsborough, Lincs, was 63-year-old Barton.

Barton's name also appeared on Companies House records listing him as a director, despite him being banned from running companies until 2019 - he says this was an admin error - and he's also named on the office lease and as the person who ­registered the firm's website.

One victim of Minster Legal is David Wilson, from Southampton, who paid £1,995 to have a family trust drawn-up last December.

He said: "In February I received a letter from Minster Legal stating that the documentation was under way.

"But I received nothing further from them and was fobbed off with promises to call me back which never ­materialised."

In April he was contacted by a firm called National Legal Assistance, at the same Gainsborough address.

He was told that it would honour the work that Minster Legal should have carried out for him.

Then David was contacted again and this time told he'd been misinformed and National Legal Assistance wouldn't help after all.

Is this yet another Barton operation? We've phoned to find out and can only say that National Legal can't seem to decide whether he works there or not.

It's hard to disagree with Brian McMillan when he says: "It is cases such as these that highlight the need for all will-writing companies to be licensed so that this cannot happen again."

He added that in some case the Society will have to charge to clean up this mess.

"We've repaired wills at no cost and our own legal team are working at cost price. But if it involves external solicitors or, say, Land Registry fees then we have to charge - though these are probably costs that the clients would have incurred anyway."

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011 ... -go-down-t.html

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, yet another story about Minster Legal Services that was published on the 29th July 2011:

Minster Legal Services: Abandoned Wills recovered by Society of Will Writers

Minster Legal Services: the Society of Will Writers have recovered off the street in a South Yorkshire town hundreds of files containing  personal information which Minster Legal Services, a will writing company based in Gainsborough obtained from elderly and vulnerable clients. These clients in many cases paid thousands of pounds for wills and trusts they have never received.

Minster Legal Services, who were not members of the Society of Will Writers, ceased trading in March this year when their sole director David Hodgson, a solicitor, died unexpectedly.

Representatives from Minster Legal Services dumped the files on the street outside a will writing company in Doncaster who contacted the Society of Will Writers as they did not know what to do. The Society arranged to collect the files for safe keeping.

Minster Legal Services had a national network of consultants selling wills and lifetime trusts, and in particular targeted local charity groups in order to sell their services.

The Society has written to all [former] Minster clients contained in the files to inform them where their files are and how the Society of Will Writers can help them with full contact details. The Society have also recovered hundreds of original documents which many Minster clients believed they paid Minster Legal Services to safely ‘store’ on their behalf.

What is of greater concern to the Society is that many of Minsters clients, having paid several thousand of pounds in many cases, believe they have a trust or a valid will which in many cases they do not.

The Society would ask anyone who had dealings with Minster Legal Services and have not had their completed documents to contact the Society as soon as possible. If you have had a will, Lasting Power of Attorney or a trust and would like it checked please contact the Society free on 0800 838270 or email to custody@willwriters.com or visit our web site at www.willwriters.com

It is cases such as these that highlights the need for all will writers and will writing companies to be licensed so that this cannot happen again. The Society of Will Writers supports the Legal Services Board in its investigations.

Professional Will Writers offer a safe and viable alternative to solicitors when it comes to making your will which is probably the most important document you will ever write. All members of the Society of Will Writers carry an identity card, ALWAYS ask to see it. You can verify the details of your will writing consultant by calling free 0800 838270 or visit our web site at www.willwriters.com

This article came from: http://willcustodian.co.uk/uncategorized/minster-legal-services/

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, lots more picked up on the above stories, here are some of them:

--> http://www.burtondyson.com/press-releases/pre ... ill-writers.htm
--> http://www.wills-advice.co.uk/1000-wills-related-files-found-on-pavement/
--> http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/1000-wills-related-files-found-pavement
--> http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/new ... y-and-much-more
--> http://www.worthingtonslaw.co.uk/?p=news

Thankyou for Reading.

KW

To all Readers, below is the link to a copy of Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd's leaflet.

http://www.lapd.uk.com/Minster%20Legal%20Services.pdf

Those of you who have had a visit from National Legal Assistance, take a look and see what similarities you can find, although it might be easier for you to count the differences as there are less of them.

Thankyou for reading.

KW