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Entries in Philip Scroope (3)

Tuesday
Jun252013

Personal disruptions

Solicitor off the track over "voidness" scam … The Keddies wash-up - no professional misconduct for $215,000 over-charge … Depression and despair win the day for solicitor in dysfunctional partnership ... Bureaux de Spank spanked 

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Tuesday
May012012

Russell Keddie admits he grossly overcharged 

A long and torturous road ... Three years after proceedings by LSC commenced, Russell Keddie and employed solicitor Philip Scroope make admissions in agreed statements of facts to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal ... Gross overcharging by 46 percent ... Penalties pending 

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Monday
Feb272012

File closed ... now move on

Keddies, again … Self-regulation protects the independence of the legal profession and allows the most flagrant breaches of ethical standards to be regarded as acceptable … Tracing the Tariq overcharging case and how all misconduct complaints found their way to the dust bin … Charging another three-quarters of the amount on top of what is acceptable is not gross overcharging ... Victim presses for inquiry into OLSC 

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