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To all Readers Beware of Will Writing scams

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017k60v/features/information

For a solicitor to draw up a will they must be properly qualified and regulated by the Law Society. Yet you don’t need to be a solicitor to be a will writer and whilst there are plenty of legitimate will writing firms, sadly there are also a few rogues.

They may try to entice you in with the promise of a super cheap will and then hard sell you a load of added extras which you don’t necessarily need but feel pressured into buying. They may then take your money and fail to provide you with either your will or the added extras you’ve paid for. Another trick is to write themselves into the will so they take a percentage of the estate on death, or to make themselves the executors of the will which means they’re in charge of paying beneficiaries, something they may decide not to do.

The Citizens Advice Bureau offers some advice on choosing the right solicitor, while The Law Society is campaigning for the will writing industry to be regulated.

Citizens Advice Bureau: advice on will writing scams
The Law Society: regulation of will writers

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, Synergy Legal have put this story on their social media page.

In our opinion Pot, Black and Kettle spring to mind.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/28/fake ... tims?CMP=twt_fd

Fake lawyer jailed for 14 years for tricking 'desperate' victims
Devil's advocate' Giovanni di Stefano conned clients out of millions of pounds by pretending to be legally qualified

Maybe the aforementioned companies should take note of the Judges words.

Some excerpts taken from the story..........

The judge told Di Stefano: "I recognise that you did not actively seek out those whom you defrauded. They came to you. You did not approach them but there is more than one kind of predator. Some Predators hunt down their victims, others lie in wait for them. Your victims in this case were all desperate people and people who, because of their desperation, were vulnerable."

The judge also noted that, while this case is about money, "it is also about something different and great – it is about the real distress you caused to so many people".

"You had no regard for them nor for their anguish," he said. "Your only concern was to line your own pockets."

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers if you need a will check this out.

http://www.which.co.uk/money/retirement/guides/writing-a-will/

Writing a will

How to make a will without paying hefty solicitor fees

Essential Which? tips to save time, money and effort

A guide on how to validate, store and update your will

Interactive guide to intestacy rules

Thankyou for reading.

KW

How ironic that you have now directed everyone to information which states that the Trusts you have been denigrating are actually fit for purpose.
You didn't think that one through KW.

Smiley face Thankyou for your comments we think you'll find that it's never been about the products and whether there fit for purpose, it has always been about the providers. Or the fact that they don't actually provide.


Thankyou for reading.


KW

Regarding Prestige Law I can confirm for sure the following:

The four Telecanners are Lucy, Erica, Natalie, Sanah.

Management are Andrew Hesketh & Danielle Shenton.

Reps are Jerry Carrington & Sam Passi with the possibilities (in talks) of coming on board of Mark Fisher & Mick Poucher.

SR Thankyou for your comments, are you suggesting that those mentioned (re-Prestige Law) have set up separately to the Directors of Express Law/Synergy Legal?  

Who runs Express Law/Synergy Legal according to your knowledge?

You say (in talks) but with whom?

Please feel free to email us wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Prestige are nothing to do with Synergy Legal or Express Law, if anything they are enemies and last I heard Mark Fisher (a representative at Syngery Legal) was in a meeting lastweek at the Prestige building to leave Synergy Legal to go to work for Prestige which leaves Synergy Legal in serious trouble as they then only have very unexperienced unqualified representatives left such as afew girls that were nothing but appointment makers on the phone afew months ago.

What experience or qualifications do you believe Mark Fisher to have?

All leaving Synergy to go and work for a bent ex copper?! Must be mad.!

There are quite a few people who intend to have a word or two with Barton if and when he resurfaces. He won't be able to hide for ever!

You are a joke
About as frightening as a marshmallow
You talk like a sad no mates dressed in black playing Internet games until mummy says its bedtime, trying to sound like a hard man, trying to be scary like an avenging super hero from one of your games like a gangster from one of your fantasies
but in reality
You are a joke

Mark Fisher is far superior to the rest of the 'reps' Synergy Legal have that's for sure, afew silly girls off the phones doesnt quiet cut it does it? I have my information from sources within Syngery Legal

By superior do you mean sells more?

To all Readers,

Please read and click link for video:

Will-writing scammer up to no good Gerald Barton down under.
By Andrew Penman on May 22, 2013 11:00 PM in Rogue traders

It was a delight to watch Gerald Barton, king of will-writing scams, squirm in front of the camera.

We first came across him in 2001 when he charged customers extra for secure storage of the wills he had drawn up, and then dumped 12,000 of them in a barn.

A later operation of his, Nationwide Legal Services, was put into compulsory liquidation in the High Court, which said it was scandalously run, and in 2008 Barton, 64, was banned from acting as a company director for 11 years.

Last year we warned that Barton had set up business in Australia.

He changed his name to Garry Lewis but the team on a television current affairs programme recognised him from the pictures that we've run.

"Garry Lewis, is that your name today?" began their reporter when they cornered "the debonair-looking English con man". That's Barton below in the blue suit and yellow tie.

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Barton scampered away, refusing to discuss his Australian Legal Consultancy which claimed that there was a fortune to be made from writing wills at $1,500 a pop - almost £1,000 - but first you had to pay him £6,500 to join his business.

The show branded the venture a fraud, saying it couldn't possibly work in a country where a lawyer will draw up a will for just $150.

"He is a scumbag," said one of his potential victims. The man is clearly a fine judge of character.

VIDEO: http://video.au.msn.com/?mkt=en-au&vid=967eb6 ... :sharepermalink:

It wont be long until he pays for his crimes.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Gerald Barton using alias Garry Lewis, uhm Sean Henderson and Wife charged with money laundering, all Grimsby mates all involved with each other, all have same thing in common, all dodgy all reaching the end of the line, justice will be done.

To all Readers, it was only a matter of time before Andrew Young Martin Smith Andrew Hesketh and Alana Benson walked away from their responsibilities to all their clients again. Please be warned about these people.

EXPRESS LAW LTD
(Company Number 07355828)
Address of Registered Office: 1 WEST MOOR PARK,
NETWORKCENTRE, ARMTHORPE, DONCASTER SOUTH
YORKSHIRE, DN3 3GW.
In the High Court Of Justice No 002147 of 2013
Date of Presenting Petition: 21 March 2013.
Winding-up Order made on: 13 May 2013.
Date of Resolution for Voluntary Winding-up: 13 May 2013.
Official Receiver: G OHare 5th Floor, The Balance, Pinfold Street,
SHEFFIELD, S1 2GU, telephone: 0114 2212700,
email: Sheffield.OR@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk
Capacity in which Appointed: Liquidator
Date of Appointment: 13 May 2013. (1826880)

Thankyou for reading.

KW

I WAS CONNED BY NATIONAL LEGAL SERVICES MANY YEARS AGO AS A FRANCHISEE. THE FEE THEN WAS ABOUT £7,000. I BELIEVE THE MAIN MAN THEN WAS GERALD MALCOLM BARTON. IS HE NOW INVOLVED WITH COLLECTIVE LEGAL SOLUTIONS? DO YOU BY CHANCE HAVE HIS HOME ADDRESS?
RGDS ROD

It is easy to see how you were conned Rod. Try reading things a little more diligently. It is stated and shown beyond any doubt EARLIER ON THIS PAGE that he is in Australia. I would be very surprised if that was the only time you have been 'conned'. You really do need to look at things a bit closer before jumping in.
(Thought I would help out and give some 'free advice' too KW. Hope I haven't stepped on your toes)

Smiley Face Thankyou for your comments

Maybe you should take your own advice, free or otherwise.

"Try reading things a little more diligently." (Your comment to Rod)

"How ironic that you have now directed everyone to information which states that the Trusts you have been denigrating are actually fit for purpose.
You didn't think that one through KW."

We replied with: Smiley face Thankyou for your comments we think you'll find that it's never been about the products and whether there fit for purpose, it has always been about the providers. Or the fact that they don't actually provide.

and by the way no toes damaged.

Thankyou for reading.

KW