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dave b Thankyou for your comments. It looks to be the case that Minster Legal Associates LLP based in York are having a Creditors Meeting to discuss 'Creditors Voluntary Winding Up'.

Please read the article below for more information: http://www.uklegalnotices.co.uk/view_notice.p ... 2l6Vjn44GbqLeqj

Minster Legal Associates LLP
Number: OC356331 | Case created on 5th Mar 2012
Meetings of Creditors
Posted: 5th Mar 2012 | SOH/DANNY - O'Hara's Limited

Registered Number: OC356331
Principal Trading Address: 22 Holgate Villa, Holgate Road, York, YO24 4AB

The Insolvency Act 1986

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 98 of the Insolvency Act 1986 that a meeting of the creditors of the above-named company will be held at Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ, on 15 March 2012 at 10.15 am for the purposes mentioned in Sections 99 to 101 of the said Act.

Resolutions to be considered at the meeting may include a resolution specifying the terms on which the liquidator is to be remunerated. The meeting may receive information about, or be called upon to approve, the costs of preparing the statement of affairs and convening the meeting.

Creditors wishing to vote at the meeting must lodge their proxy, together with a full statement of account at the registered office – O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ not later than 12 noon on the two business days prior to the date of this meeting.

For the purposes of voting, a secured creditor is required (unless he surrenders his security) to lodge at O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ before the meeting, a statement giving particulars of his security, the date when it was given and the value at which it is assessed.

Notice is further given that a list of the names and addresses of the company’s creditors may be inspected, free of charge, at O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm on the two business days preceding the date of the meeting stated above. If necessary please contact Christopher Brooksbank (office holder no 9568) by email chris.brooksbank@ohara.co.uk or telephone 01924 477449.
By Order of the Board.

Gary Jones, Director

02 March 2012
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Thankyou for reading.

KW

I understand how you feel my parents have had the same happen to them also by Dodds I have reported them to York Trading Standards and awaiting feed back for a lady called Rachel Welsh

To all Readers, information from The London Gazette with regard to Minster Legal Associates LLP based in York:

Date: 23 March 2012
Issue Number: 60097
Page number: 5896
Publication Date: Friday, 23 March 2012
Notice Code: 2441

Resolutions for Winding-up

MINSTER LEGAL ASSOCIATES LLP (Company Number OC356331)

O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ

Principal Trading Address: 22 Holgate Villa, Holgate Road, York, YO24 4AB

At an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named limited liability partnership, duly convened, and held at Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ on 15 March 2012 the following SPECIAL RESOLUTION was duly passed viz:

“THAT it has proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the limited liability partnership cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up the same and, accordingly, that the limited liability partnership be wound up voluntarily and that Christopher Brooksbank of O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding up.”

Gary Jones, Signatory

(1558317)
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/60097/ ... +associates+llp

Date: 23 March 2012
Issue Number: 60097
Page number: 5913
Publication Date: Friday, 23 March 2012
Notice Code: 2443

Appointment of Liquidators

Name of Company: MINSTER LEGAL ASSOCIATES LLP.
Company Number: OC356331.

Address of Registered Office: O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ.

Principal Trading Address: 22 Holgate Villa, Holgate Road, York, YO24 4AB

Type of Liquidation: Creditors.

Liquidator's Name and Address: Christopher Brooksbank, O’Haras Limited, Wesley House, Huddersfield Road, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9EJ

Office Holder Number: 9658.

Date of Appointment: 15 March 2012.

By whom Appointed: Members & Creditors.
If necessary please contact chris.brooksbank@ohara.co.uk or telephone 01924 477449

(1558308)
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/60097/ ... +associates+llp

If you are owed money by this firm, please contact the liquidator on the above contact details.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

I paid £ 900 up front for wills and changes to my type of tenancy with the land registry, got wills (any good??) ,no change of type of tenancy was lodged with the land registry. HOW do i get my money back,this was started last October, Have i been robbed??

ianh Thankyou for your comments. You should get you Wills checked with a Trusted Solicitor or your local CAB office will be able to point you in the right direction of who else can check it over for you.

Also contact The Trading Standards with regards to the products you bought from Minster Legal Associates LLP as it sounds like you may not have got what you paid for. You could also contact the liquidator on the above contact details.

We hope this information is of some use.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers - Estate Planning & Trust information:

There are good trusts and there are bad trusts. Good trusts are part of a process used by legitimate estate planners and their clients to control the disposition of assets, avoid probate, reduce administration costs, save estate taxes, and preserve family wealth for future generations. This article is not about the good trusts. It is about bad trusts.

Companies that churn out “standard” living trusts or any other kind of trusts sell their services in seminars, and by telesales without any concern for your overall estate plan, these companies often try to sell you a trust in a “one-size-fits-all” package. This can have a detrimental affect on your estate plan and may result in the transfer of property to the wrong heirs, while costing you a great deal of money in preparing the trust agreement, in some cases, more than £2000, although this is even above the odds.

In most cases, such companies purport to use the services of an Solicitor, but usually, the Solicitor is only a front man for the company and does not play any part in the creation of your estate plan or trust. Also, such companies often make false claims about the benefits of a trust, in particular, they exaggerate the beneficial effect of a trust when it comes to asset protection,
Deceptive trust companies can be spotted in a number of ways:

They often sell trusts through seminars or through telesales offering free advice with arranged home visits, without giving you any way to check the credentials of the sales person or company. When they visit you at your home they may remove paperwork, leaving you with very little to look at or investigate.

Watch out for “sound alike” names confusing their services.

FINAL WORDS OF ADVICE – Any trust should be created only after a thorough review of your tax, estate, and personal goals. You need to talk with a team of professionals perhaps an accountant or financial advisor to make an informed decision on whether to create a trust.

You can’t take it with you and you can’t change your mind, so draw up a professional will and trust.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, please be sure that you are protecting your assets correctly. Go to a reputable Solicitor or Professional Will Writer within the IPW.

Deprivation of capital
If you give away your property or savings deliberately in order to avoid paying for your care home costs, this is called ‘deprivation of capital’. The Department for Work and Pensions and the council are entitled to take account of this capital as if it were still owned by you, and can seek to make you pay the care home fees accordingly.

Some of the ways in which you may be considered to have deprived yourself of capital include:
*Giving away money
*Transferring the ownership of property, or
*Spending your capital on something not necessary, for example, an expensive painting.

Both the Department for Work and Pensions and the council must look at your reasons for giving the capital away and when you gave it away. For example, if you gave each of your grandchildren some money three years before you needed care, it may be unreasonable for the council to assume that you gave the money away in order to avoid paying care home fees. However, if you signed your property over to your son two weeks before you went into a care home, the council might decide that you did so in order to avoid having to pay the care home fees.

There is no time-limit on how far back the council can look at what they consider to be ‘deliberate’ deprivation of capital.

For more information on the above, please contact the DWP or your local council. Don't be fooled into making a costly error in having it protected, only to have it taken away after all. It's imperative that you receive the correct advice.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

a mr michael wild, phone number he gave us,0777-2921413.gave us a receipt for £1,152.on the 21/11/11.
we cannot get an answer from the above phone or 01904 289396

mr e naylor Thankyou for your comments. Unfortunately you wont be able to contact anyone from Minster Legal Associates LLP has they have gone into liquidation.

If you have not received the products you have purchased, you should contact the York Trading Standards and the Liquidators on the contact details in previous posts.

We hope you find some resolve with this matter.

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, please read the article below which was featured in yesterdays Daily Express:

Q: Will a Trust Fund Avoid Care Costs?

My wife and I are both in our 70s, with two grown-up children. Is it a good idea to put our liquid assets and house into a trust fund to protect against possible future care home fees?
I was cold called by a Sheffield-based legal company. I don't normally have anything to do with cold calls, but when my father went into a care home some years ago he had to pay out substantial fees, which broke his heart.
I agreed to see a rep of the company who was not a solicitor but part of a franchise system. The cost, at £4,100, seems very high and they want the money up front.
Should we get other quotations?

A: Jonathan Hill, who is a certified financial planner at the Solicitors Milford & Dormor, of Chard, Somerset, says:

"Local Authorities have strict rules which allow them to disregard any schemes which they deem to be deliberately arranged so as to avoid care fees.
The sum you have been quoted is a substantial amount of money to part with following a cold call from a firm you have not had dealings with in the past, my suggestions would be to speak to a local solicitor who is a member of solicitors for the elderly (SFE) and for you and your family to review the very helpful Alzheimer's Society short changed report."

The full story can be found at: http://www.cashquestions.com/threads/13953-Sh ... ight=trust+fund 

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, finally some Protection for the Elderly and Vulnerable!

Will-writing rogues get regulated
By Andrew Penman on April 25, 2012 11:00 PM in Investments

At last people wanting a will drawn up are to have some protection from the rogues infesting this industry.

The Legal Services Board has announced that everyone who writes wills must now
be regulated. The decision follows an investigation by the board, which said it had uncovered "systemic problems".

"We found consistent patterns of sloppiness, simple errors and poor communication," it said. "Too often consumers were subjected to unfair sales practices.

"There have also been some well-documented examples of fraud and deception."

Maybe they have in mind habitual wills conman Gerald Barton. When we came across him 10 years ago, he'd been running the will-writing company JHD Associates, which collapsed, and thousands of wills were dumped in a barn.

His Nationwide Legal Services firm was shut down, the High Court hearing that it was
"scandalously run to the huge detriment of the public".

And last year his Minster Legal Services of Gainsborough, Lincs, went under and this time boxes of wills were dumped in the street. Regulation can't come too soon for the likes of him.

Chairman of the Legal Services Board, David Edmonds, said: "Ultimately, people must be able to write a will with confidence, not fear. For that to be possible, everyone offering such services must deliver a baseline of consumer protection. This is not about extending regulation for the sake of it; it is about maintaining public confidence in an important legal process; enhancing the environment for reputable providers; and protecting consumers at particularly vulnerable times in their lives.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012 ... get-regula.html

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, in addition to our last post, the press release from The Legal Service Board: http://www.legalservicesboard.org.uk/news_pub ... lease_final.pdf

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers: Regulation of will-writers will affect solicitors too
Monday 30 April 2012 by Rachel Rothwell

The solicitors’ profession was punching the air in celebration last week when the Legal Services Board announced its intention to finally bring will-writing into the regulatory fold.

There is no shortage of evidence about the misery caused by unscrupulous will-writers; a story from last year about a firm that dumped its documents on the pavement after going bust springs to mind as one of the worst examples. But it must be pointed out that the vast majority of those who write wills, whether they are solicitors or not, are competent and professional individuals, who provide a good service; and indeed the non-regulated sector has proven very successful in offering, for example, home visits, which make it as easy as possible for people to make a will (when it comes to writing wills, people are always looking for an excuse to do it tomorrow, not today). These reputable firms will probably welcome the opportunity to pin the badge of regulation on their lapels (though they may be less keen on the accompanying cost). But proper regulation should - at last - see off the rogues.

The new regulatory rules will cover the activities of will-writing, probate and estates administration, whoever does it - so they will apply to solicitors as well as everyone else. The LSB clearly has its doubts about the effectiveness of solicitors’ current regulation in these areas, asserting that problems with quality, service, transparency and fraud exist in both the regulated and unregulated sectors (although it does concede that the worst sales practices, and problems with the safekeeping of wills and options for redress, are largely confined to will-writers rather than solicitors).

The LSB says the way solicitors are regulated at the moment puts too much emphasis on controlling entry to the profession, without being targeted to the risks. Instead, it wants to see front-line regulators like the Solicitors Regulation Authority conducting more risk-based monitoring and supervision in relation to wills. The level of inspection a firm should expect would depend on the regulator’s analysis of the risk they present; so you might assume that a well-run firm whose wills are written by qualified staff would receive fewer visits.

Bodies that want to regulate will-writing will need to place a tick in the box to show they have the following in place: a mandatory register of the organisations they have authorised to write wills; a fit and proper person test before anyone can be licensed to write wills; a code of conduct covering sales practices; a requirement that firms must have an appropriately trained workforce; a strategy for supervision and enforcement, with financial penalties for transgression; requirements for firms to have in-house complaints procedures (they will also be subject to the Legal Ombudsman’s gaze); and professional indemnity where the provider has access to consumers’ money (for example in estates management).

All of these will be welcome and essential developments, and frankly hard for anyone to argue with. But just as important is one further requirement: any body wishing to regulate will-writing must have a strategy in place to educate consumers about the process of making a will. With so many people still failing to cross that job off the to-do list, any development that raises the profile of will-making can only be a good thing.
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/blogs/blogs/news- ... -solicitors-too

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KW

To all Readers, please read the story below about Mr Joseph Graham Croft, a close associate of Mr Gerald Malcolm Barton:

On-the-run fraudster Graham Haste jailed

9:17am Monday 10th September 2012 in News By Megi Rychlikova, megi.rychlikova@thepress.co.uk

A NORTH Yorkshire fraudster who spent 17 years on the run is today finally behind bars awaiting sentence.

Graham Nigel Haste, now 50, used a series of aliases and travelled between three countries as he tried to stop North Yorkshire Police finding out where he was.

But a former policeman tracked Haste through Spain and the Canary Islands back to Britain, where he was arrested again after first fleeing in September 1995.

Recorder Martin Bethel QC, who remanded Haste in custody while a pre-sentence report was prepared, said: “It is high time these matters are resolved.”

Retired Detective Constable Paul Somerville said the case showed that criminals on the run could never rest, no matter how long ago they committed their crimes.He now works as international liaison officer for North Yorkshire Police’s specialist operations unit and has other long-term absconders on his radar.

“With the contacts we have got now with the international police forces all over Europe, we are certainly able to track him,” he said. “Because he has family here, we always expected he would gain access to the UK under false pretences.”

Even though Haste, formerly of Leeds Road in Harrogate, set up a new UK base in Sleaford under a new name of Joseph Croft, that was not enough to hide him from the law. North Yorkshire Police had told every police force in the UK years ago that they were on the look-out for him.

Mr Somerville’s involvement in the case began in 1995 when, still a police officer, he investigated how Haste got two false passports under two false names to help him get out of the country instead of attending his trial at York Crown Court.

He faced charges of obtaining £11,700 finance by deception, evading repayment by deception, two charges each of driving a Jaguar while disqualified and without insurance and one of using a false number plate on the Jaguar.

He initially ran to Pureto Cabopino, a holiday resort near Malaga, Spain then later left there amid allegations that he owed 2,000 Euros in rent, and made his home in Tenerife, the Canary Islands.

But Mr Somerville was on his trail and Haste decided it would be better to move to Sleaford in Lincolnshire where he set up home with a family under the name Joseph Croft. Other aliases used during his time on the run included Graham Varszegi and Nigel Maximilian Devere.

His actions caught the eye of Lincolnshire trading standards, who called in Lincolnshire Police, and they in turn got in touch with North Yorkshire Police.

Haste pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining a passport by deception, the finance and repayment deceptions, all four driving charges and the false number plate charge.

Charges of forging a driving licence, handing stolen goods and theft of a television which Haste denies were left on his file.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9919410.On_the_run_fraud_man_behind_bars/

Thankyou for reading.

KW

To all Readers, an update on Minster Legal Associates LLP:

Two charged with consumer offences - 10:18am Thursday 22nd November 2012 in News

  TWO York men have appeared in court charged with consumer law offences after their legal services business went into liquidation.

Samuel Tony Dodds, 31, of The Green, Acomb, and Gary Jones, 31, of Curzon Terrace, were partners in Minster Legal Associates LLP of Holgate Villas, Holgate Road, York.

They are charged with engaging in unfair trading following complaints from elderly and other customers over business worth more than £18,000.

The organisation, a limited liability partnership, was formed in 2010 with a registered address in Batley, West Yorkshire, and went into liquidation earlier this year.

York magistrates decided the case was too serious for them to deal with and adjourned it until January 10, when it is expected to be committed to Crown Court.

A third man, Michael John Wild, 48, of Oxford House, Lowther Terrace, York, was not in court.

He faces five charges of unfair trading and is alleged to have acted as salesman. His case was also adjourned.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10064112.Two_charged_with_consumer_offences/

We'll update again after the Crown Court Hearing.

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KW

any news here

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KW

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

Michael Wild has been at it again.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10635652.Widow_s_funeral_scheme_misery/

Is this the same Michael Wild who is now in hiding after his 'Yorkshire Asset Protection' company was recently exposed for similar practices?  http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10635652.Widow_s_funeral_scheme_misery/
And who has already been convicted for credit card fraud?  http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9194436.Tenan ... in___10k_fraud/
If so, isnt it time someone stopped this fraudster?