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To all Readers with all these reported cases by various individuals connected to one another, you would think that the authorities would see through their dishonesty and put a stop it. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10690292.Firm ... otection_wills/ 

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10653220.Watc ... o_finance_firm/

Thankyou for reading.

KW.

How are these connected???

??? Thankyou for your comments these people have all worked together in one way or another, check out the website below.

People to be aware of in the Will Writing Industry, Gerald Malcolm Barton Philip Hancock, Nigel Varszegi Haste, Jeanette Varszegi Haste, Andrew Young, David Nash, Nicholas Butcher, Raymond Prince, Martin Denis Smith/ Dr Martin Patrick Smith, Samuel Dodds, Gary Jones, Alana Benson, Robert Holly, Melissa Barnes, Robert Moseley, Kay Morley, Alan Whitehead, Alan Appleyard,  Matthew Appleyard, Grant Harrison Bowles, John Louis Trotter, Joy Bell, Trevor Orbell, Andrew Hesketh, Wendy Hesketh and Michael Wilde.

http://protectingelderly.wix.com/willwriters#!information

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KW

???  Thankyou for your comment, hope we were able to answer your question, unfortunately the link that we gave you seems to be experiencing some technical difficulties. However we do have other sites but are unable to put the links on here, if you wish for any more detailed information feel free to email us at wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk.

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KW.

Well Jazmine one of the 'legal consultants' is giving out business cards to clients saying her work address is in Shropshire with yet another company but claiming to be with Prestige Law in Doncaster. Am I glad I left the company - yes - without any doubt at all - none of this is right.

Further news - Dannielle Shentonne the office manager at Prestige Law based at the Innovation Centre, Doncaster is getting a more luxurious car courtesy of the company anyday soon.

Doncaster law 4 u ltd
In the building next door to Phoenix House
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Sorry
Direct Law 4 U Ltd
Had been passed wrong info
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??? Thankyou for your comments. Here are full Company Details:

Direct Law 4U Ltd
Company No. 08610978

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 16/07/2013

Registered Address: 145 - 157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW
Trading Address: M & M Business Park, Doncaster Road, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster, DN3 1HR
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/08610978/DIRECT-LAW-4U-LTD

Director Details:
Mrs Kay Marie Morley     British     DOB: 10 Sept 1972
145 - 157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW

SYNERGY LEGAL LIMITED 08294102 Incorporated 15 Nov 2012 Live
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW

DIRECT LAW 4U LTD 08610978 Incorporated 16 Jul 2013
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW
https://www.jordans.co.uk/reports/Process?for ... dirNo=D17365705

Secretary Details:
Miss Melissa Barnes     DOB: Not Known
45 Willoughby Chase, Gainsborough, Lincs, United Kingdom, DN21 1GR

SYNERGY MARKETING SOLUTIONS LIMITED 08042444 Incorporated 24 Apr 2012 Live *Resigned*
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW

CLS LEGAL SOLUTIONS LTD 08485908 Incorporated 12 Apr 2013 Live
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW

SYNERGY LEGAL LIMITED 08294102 Incorporated 15 Nov 2012 Live *Resigned*
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW

DIRECT LAW 4U LTD 08610978 Incorporated 16 Jul 2013 Live
145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW
https://www.jordans.co.uk/reports/Process?for ... dirNo=D17522340
https://www.jordans.co.uk/reports/Process?for ... dirNo=D17742499
https://www.jordans.co.uk/reports/Process?for ... dirNo=D17787268
https://www.jordans.co.uk/reports/Process?for ... dirNo=D18011663

Website Details:
www.directlaw4u.org.uk
Domain name: directlaw4u.org.uk
Registrant: Alan Claude
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address: 29 Brockswood Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL8 7BG
Registrar: Enix Ltd [Tag = ENIXLTD]     URL: http://www.enixltd.com
Relevant dates:  Registered on: 10-Jun-2013  Expiry date:  10-Jun-2014  Last updated:  10-Jun-2013
Registration status: Registered until expiry date.
Name servers: ns1.enixns.com ns2.enixns.com ns3.enixns.com ns4.enixns.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/directlaw4u.org.uk

Melissa Barnes worked for Minster Legal Services (UK) Ltd, Express Law Ltd and Synergy Legal and is therefore connected to all aforementioned companies.

Kay Morley has also worked for Express Law Ltd and Synergy Legal and is also therefore connected to aforementioned companies.

Their website appears unfinished yet in the public domain. Would you trust a company who shows no address on their website, only "M&M Business Centre" Shows no telephone number and their "Your Questions" page is in a completely different language and not relevant to their business at all.

More updates soon.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers please report if you have had a similar experience.

Door to Door Will Writing Services may not be what they appear! - 17 October 2013

In response to a report from an elderly resident in the Stoke area of Coventry, Trading Standards are once again warning people to be wary of cold-callers offering a variety of legal services including; will writing, asset trusts, property trusts, and lasting power of attorney.

A company is currently known to be targeting elderly homeowners in Coventry claiming that they can prevent Local Authorities from selling their home in the event that they need to raise funds to pay for care in later life.

The information that such companies provide is often inaccurate or misleading, causing residents to believe that all of their property and assets will have to be sold to provide for their care. The company then claims to offer advice on how this can be avoided.

Some homeowners have in the past been persuaded to put their property into trust as a result of the advice and the sales representatives invariably require immediate payment of their fees which can be as much as £3000.

Consumers are reminded that they have the right to a seven day cooling off period when buying goods or services from sales people calling at their home.

If you need advice or information on Residential Care or paying for care contact the Age UK Advice Helpline 0800 169 6565 or visit their website: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/ 
http://www.coventry.gov.uk/info/200098/tradin ... _and_warnings/3

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KW.

To all Readers this warning is being posted up and down the country, beware.

Will writing / prosperity trust scam
Alert:
Information sent on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council Trading Standards
Nottinghamshire Trading Standards would like to advise residents of a new scam and to remind them to stay vigilant when dealing with unexpected telephone and personal visitors.
Residents have reported being cold called by telephone by sales staff who then go on to worry pensioners into setting up an appointment with a rep about their concerns over the potential cost of future care home fees.
The trader claims that they can set up a ‘family prosperity trust’ for you in order to avoid your house being sold to cover your care needs in later life.

The sales staff convince residents to sign up by exploiting a scenario that is of great concern to pensioners and then arrange an agreement for a trust document to be drawn up to protect the resident – costing from anything between £1000 and £3500. It is believed the document may not be as watertight as marketed, thus potentially leaving the householders property still at risk to the problem the trust is supposed to guard against.

If you have recently received an unsolicited call from a trader matching this description please contact Nottinghamshire Trading Standards on 01623 452005 or email trading.standards@nottscc.gov.uk.

Trading Standards never recommend employing a trader based on a cold call.  If you are suspicious of a cold caller operating in your area please contact Consumer Direct, the Government's phone and online consumer advice service on 08454 04 05 06.
Message sent by
Rhodri Williams (Nottinghamshire County Council, Trading Standards Officer, Notts)

Thankyou for Reading.

KW.

To all Readers some useful advice taken from http://savvywoman.co.uk/c8-pages/c8s3.php?art_id=250

Giving away your home to avoid care fees; can you give away your home to avoid paying for care?
Giving away your home seem like an obvious way to avoid paying for care, but it’s not that straightforward.

Many people resent the idea of having to sell their home to pay for care home fees. So perhaps it's not surprising I regularly receive questions for the 'ask the expert' panel about how to safeguard your parent’s home. It's not something that's easy to do (and in some cases it may be illegal).

How your home's value is assessed
The rules about how someone’s capital and savings (including their home) may be assessed if they need care are complicated and are set out in more detail in the article who pays if your parent needs care? elsewhere in this section.

In basic terms, your home won’t be taken into account if:

• Your husband/wife/civil partner or partner lives there. There are other exceptions as well, such as if you share the home with some aged over 60 or below 16 or someone of any age who is disabled.

• The NHS pays for your care. The NHS will only fund your care if you need ‘continuing health care’ rather than social care.

• You have just moved into care. The value of your property should be ignored for the first 12 weeks that you need care in a nursing home, however not all local authorities volunteer this information.

Can I sell my house or give it away?
You might think the easy way around this is to sell your house and give away your money or to give your house to your children, but it’s not that simple. SavvyWoman’s long term care expert, Janet Davies of Symponia, explains:

• If you need care, one of the first questions the local authority will ask is ‘do you own your own home?’: If you answer ‘no’ it will then want to know whether you ever owned your own home.

• If you previously owned your own home but have since sold it: In this case, the local authority will ask a series of questions to try and establish if you sold your house knowing you needed care (called ‘deliberate deprivation’) or if you sold your house when you had no idea you might need care.

• If the house or proceeds of its sale were given away six months or less before you needed care, it is seen as a clear case of deliberate deprivation and the local authority would use the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 to reverse the transfer.

• If the house was sold or given away more than six months before you needed care, the local authority cannot use this act, but has to use insolvency laws to investigate what happened instead.

How the local authority will investigate
What the local authority will try and establish when it investigates cases where parents have given away their home to their children or sold them and then given away the proceeds, is the motivation behind it. It’s worth bearing in mind:

• Local authorities are becoming increasingly vigilant in following up cases where houses have been sold or transferred.

SAVVY TIP: The onus is in the local authority to do the investigating, but if you previously owned your own property, they will almost certainly ask follow-up questions and investigate further if necessary.

• There is no time limit on how far they can go back. Some people mistakenly think that local authorities can only go back for a few years but, under insolvency laws, there’s no limit on how far back they can go.

• Local authorities can request the notes of meetings. If you've met with financial advisers or solicitors to arrange the sale or transfer of the property the local authority can – and do – examine these notes to establish the motivation for giving away or selling the house.

SAVVY TIP: Janet Davies of Symponia says that the main reason why a transfer might be ignored is if someone wanted to downsize or give assets away to reduce their potential inheritance tax bill, but that’s by no means foolproof. “If your assets and property are worth more than the inheritance tax threshold it’s likely you’ll have other assets which would take you above the local authority limits for a contribution towards your care.”

• If you’ve given money away and it’s been spent, the local authority will simply refuse to contribute towards the funding of a care home until the ‘notional capital’ – namely the value of the money that was given away/transferred – has been used up.

What to think about
It is definitely possible to give away your house or to sell it and give away the proceeds, but you may fall foul of local authority rules and be no better off and, in addition, you'll be restricting your choice of care homes.

SAVVY TIP: Local authority funded care may not be appropriate for you. Care homes can cost between £950 and £1200 a week, while the average local authority contribution is around £550 a week.

• Talk to a specialist Talk to an independent financial adviser or solicitor who specialises in this area. Nicola Plant from Pemberton Greenish, SavvyWoman's wills and trusts expert says some solicitors may not look at the implications of a transfer. "Talk to a solicitor who's a member of the organisation Solicitors for the Elderly as they will be experts in this area."

Useful links
Symponia has produced a care fees planning handbook which you can download for free.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Do these companies only employ girls? never see any mention of employed males?

Who works at Prestige Law and Express Law?

A bunch of con artists!!!!!! who are all tied to the same three companies. Synergy Legal, Express Law & Direct Law 4 u..

Can anyone shed any light on who works for who with these companies and moreover who is linked with who going back in time? I ask as Prestige Law have been in contact with my parents ref a will and LPA and having done my own research via Google and reading back the whole the thread which came up, it strikes me as concerning reading indeed. Perhaps these companies should be invited to respond?? In the mean time, I have advised my parents not to enter into any contract with anyone other than a well established high street solicitor.

Can anybody give a full list of employees & employers for each company? From the bottom right to the top?

Synergy Legal, Express Law, Prestige Law & Direct Law 4 u seem to all be linked that's a definite.

Why?
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think these companies need to answer these valid questions themselves. From what I can work out on a Google read, many of the personnel have worked for one or more of these companies at one time or another. New people have joined the various companies from what I can ascertain but I think that to appreciate the actual or possible links one has to read the entirety of this thread and I accept this goes to some 90 odd pages. When one cross references to the websites of the various companies, one gets no sense of who works there, what qualifications the various consultants hold and indeed whether one or more of them are legally qualified to offer the advice that they are giving. I know what I am advising my parents but each to their own.