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To all Readers

DE VITA PLATT SOLICITORS LTD are now involved with Andrew Young in https://www.mybpa.co.uk/products-services/
0330 088 9663 http://www.firstreport.co.uk/Company/09178478/MYBPA-LTD
Andrew is a known Associate of Alana Benson in the running of previous failed businesses  Minster Legal Services of Gainsborough and Express Law of Doncaster.

Thankyou for reading.

KW.

To all Readers the below information is from an ex employee of Express Law Ltd Doncaster (Run by Alana Benson).
We want to thank Miss Z for having the courage to come forward. We have kept their identity anonymous to prevent any reprisals.   We have re-listed this post again as a reminder to the public how these companies operate, please be aware.

Hi KW,

I had only been under the employment of 'Express Law LTD' for a month, when I decided to do some research and I was horrified to discover what I did. I did work, on the Telesales area and none of us were ever told anything like this, they were so.... convincing!

I did find it odd that I got the job a bit too easily and when they only had 4 vacancies... they employed all 12 of us that applied. I can't express enough how much of this was hidden from us!

I will tell everything I can from the 'inside' in order to help others. After only 6 hours of training they threw us on the phones to start calling people, I did feel 6 hours way to short for us to be giving advice on Will's, POA and Property trust.

During our training we were told of the man (Gerald Barton) who had scammed all his clients and when his team realised this, they pulled away creating Express Law, they never mentioned  all the other companies.

We ourselves were then scared into making Will's with the company to protect our children, they scared us saying if we died our babies would go into care not their father unless we did a will. Is this why 80% of the staff are young mums?
Another thing that did confuse me, they took our bank details but pay us cash in hand.
They hire and sack staff every 6 week, no exaggeration.

They do treat the telesales well in a sense of regular breaks, weekends off, good pay, refreshments... but it all felt unstable and like they were keeping us sweet. Happy staff don't ask questions, right?

One thing that always stood out to me was we would have to lie to client;s, for example we were made to tell them we have a database that shows everyone who is eligible to their consultant meeting, if they ask.. when in reality we are handed torn out pages of a phone book and a ruler to go down calling the public one by one.

Here's the script we were made to learn and believe
also,
''Hello is that Mr Smith?

Hello, my name is …....... and I'm calling from express Law today, were
just calling everyone in your neighbourhood to raise awareness of the
community care act, Have you hear of this before?

Well its been on the news lately so you may have seen it
it's where councils are selling people's homes to pay
their residential care fees and we feel strongly against it, I
don't know how you feel about it?

Right well we have a local chap in your area who's giving
out free legal advice to your neighbours and we just want
to know when is best for you? ''

What you must understand is these people made us believe we were generally helping the public, they even scammed us into buying there wills also. What also annoys me is there giving Doncaster a bad name.

They put a huge amount of pressure onto us in order to get the appointments... even for a telesales company. Also we were never asked to sell anything per say, it was only our position to get the appointments. So often we would get asked how much do things cost by the receiver, but we could never tell them because we were never informed of the prices.

Another strange incident occurred when one of my colleagues came across your site and she questioned the management about some of the issues brought up, she was lectured and told that 'If you click on such site's giving us bad press then the higher on google it goes' and then they forbade her from talking about it. Which is what edged me to take a peek.

Also I remember you saying that such scams had been on the BBC The One show, and they had warned people against them. Funny thing Miss A…..... herself mentioned it to us, she called a meeting and told us if a customer says they saw the show, that we were to say ' We are not a telemarketing scam, we are member of  The Will Writers Society'' , It seems that every time you guys post a warning or new angle, they come up with a defence to tell us on the phones, so if customers challenge us we have a ready response.

But I will warn some consultants may not even know they giving unworthy Wills it might be just their job to do the pitch, I just don't want to bad mouth anyone who could be genuinely innocent. For example I was on Telesales and I had no idea about any of this... just like I can guarantee none of the other girls do.

If you have any question about the company please ask I want to help!  feel free to use the information to help people

Oh and another thing we were told that we had to keep track of own appointments and Write them in our diaries... but when we filled appointment sheets out they were confiscated from us and they said it was company property. Is that odd? It's clearly not confidential....

Regards Miss Z

This is how all of Alana Bensons companies do business
Date of birth: June 1974
Nationality: British
Type: Director
Company: CHARTERHOUSE LEGAL LIMITED
Company: 365 LEGAL SOLUTIONS LTD
Company: INDEED LAW LTD
Company: DIRECT LAW 4U LTD

Thankyou for reading.

KW

Clearly your working for them. Maybe time for a REAL job Instead of robbing people.... Just offering you some "free advice"

My aunt was called on and bought from Prestige Tax and Trust Services just in September 2016. My brother and I made sure all her legal work was in order through a well known Lincolnshire law firm, for half the price that this group charged her. Prestige has charged her 2.5 thousand  of her hard earned and saved retirement fund for something she doesn't need; she's ill and doesn't know better.Please watch out, they're working in Lincolnshire

Hi KW, I am interested to know more about this post. How do we get in touch with each other? No registration required here. I am happy to send you my email address, but being security minded would prefer it be done privately if that is possible?

Hi KW I think I have found your email where you don't mind us asking questions?
wewillgivefreeadvice@hotmail.co.uk

KW I appreciate this is an old post, but I am sure you are aware that the above pages/links no longer exist. (They grabbed the money and ran!!)

sorry my post relates to the 2011 post with links to FB pages for National Legal Assistance

I leave presents - not rob people!
Even little children know this.

To all Readers

http://www.todayswillsandprobate.co.uk/news/s ... ly-ill-no-will/
Be aware when buying a will from a cold.

Thankyou for reading.

KW.

To all Readers

https://www.willwriters.com/blog/will-writer-jailed-fraud/

(Hard to trust)

Thank you for reading

KW

I know this is an old thread but I'm after some advice. My Grandma used Express Law in 2013 to write her will and set up a financial LPA, but she doesn't remember doing it (her dementia's fault, not the law firm). The only letter I can find is the one saying Express Law have ceased trading, the company now storing your documents will be in touch.....and there's nothing else. The family are now trying to get a copy of the LPA, is it a lost cause? The OPG will only send a copy if it can be certified as a true copy, but no one can certify it because we haven't got the original! Any help would be gratefully received, my Grandma's journey along Dementia Road is getting faster and we need to help her.

To MsKateD
Have you tried contacting the Society of Will Writers in Lincoln as Express Law was registered with them. They maybe able to help! as they did step in when Express Law was known as Minster Legal Services of Gainsborough.
Also as they were registered one would assume that they have a duty of care to all clients.

This could be a lost cause as the company in question and the people involved are all fraudulent, you could look up Andrew Young, Alana Benson, Martin Smith or Melissa Barnes they all ran Express Law and now run other Will Writing companies.
Hope this helps.
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08454753555/19

Thankyou for reading.

KW.

The aforementioned Solicitors practice, De Vita Platt, has been closed down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The intervening agents are at their premises now, retrieving documents. Both solicitors, De Vita and Platt are being prosecuted, along with another solicitor who formerly worked at the practice.

Nearly 10 years down the line and this [***] is still affecting my life!!!

WHERE IS BARTON...??????

It ends NOW...!!!

To Where is he???
He is in Austrailia
http://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2013/ ... s-to-australia/
Thankyou for reading.

KW

Thanks to your post in another thread both of these vendetta blog threads can now be monitored.