Lawyers' Dirty Tricks & Tactics REVEALED
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My daughter had to defend a prosecution against her. The solicitor she engaged let the case drag on for 2 years and cost my daughter £17000. The plaintive offered no evidence on court day and the case was dismissed. My Daughter engaged another firm of solicitors to sue for malicious prosecution and they said she had a good case. After 3 months and another £7000 including advice from a Barrister they advised her she would probably lose and be liable for the other sides costs so she dropped the case. So basically they all ‘ piss in the same pot’
This country needs more people like BBB. I have the utmost respect for those who will defy the establishment no matter what and help out those less fortunate.
My late father had some legal work done many years ago now (this was in Scotland). He sat in the solicitors office and was advised the work would cost "about £60". A few weeks later, he got a bill for £120.
So it went to court. He represented himself. He sat there, and watched this law firm walk a group or barristers into the court room, all wearing their infamous wigs. The case lasted all of what must have been 2 minutes, where the judge asked him why he was here and what the issue was. The judge turned around to the group of barristers they had on this case and said words to the effect of "I have no idea why you have brought this in front of a court and wasted court time today" and ruled in his favour. He paid his £60, but they had to pay him all his costs and of course all the court costs as well. Apparently, their jaws dropped in disbelief at what just happened. Wish I could have been a fly on the court room wall that day.
Not all heroes wear wigs. RIP dad.
These are now small claims so unless you misbehave badly as a party in any claim up to £10k each side pays their own costs and even if you lose you only have to pay their filing fee of about 4% of the total claim on top of the judgment figure and your own costs.
I once defended myself on a charge of speeding, in the very early 1980s. The judge found not guilty and awarded costs - the solicitor seemed shocked and stood up and gave costs as £75. We left the court and he sent me a bill for £180.... I was very young and paid. I shouldn't have done.
@@wessexdruid7598 I'm baffled. If you defended yourself, and won, who sent you a bill for £180 and for what?
@@owenorders5202 The solicitor.... The lawyers always win.
@@wessexdruid7598 What was the solicitor doing there in court if you were defending yourself?
"The Weekend Letter" is a technique many councils and government departments in order to delay any attempt to answer back or appeal.
Richard Vobes had a long talk with someone about council tax. The dirty tricks from the council were amazing. Letters purporting to be from the court. Rescheduling for a date in the future, then sending a letter out the day before they bring the date forward, so people don't turn up but the pass a liability order. No record of the liability order when you ring up the court. No listings at the court for hearings. Changes in fonts on letters and tipex. Rude 'court legal advisors'. Every effort to tell people don't go to court. .... The list was endless.
only surpassed by the bank holiday letter or the christmas eve note of stress.
@adenwellsmith6908 Vobes said that did he ?
Hahaha.
Not Vobes. The person he was interviewing. @@timg1246
Yes, it's amazing what you can get away with when you remain faceless behind sending littles notices to each other.
Didn't the post office use all of these tactics when prosecuting SPMs?
Every single one , and then some.
I don’t think it would work with the post offices present record at postal deliveries.
If this was bingo, I'd get full house for all of these tactics being visited on my company over the years.
This video is the best yet.
Theres no better role in life than to be the defender of truth and a supporter of that which is ethically correct.
The world needs more of this.
To find out who rules over you, find out who you cannot criticize..
In a dispute with a local solicitor which dragged on for a few months, my habit of keeping every correspondence and logging visits to his practice was the key to winning against him. The solicitors governing body finding in my favour. His letters asking if I required any work to be done by him where the bulk of his fee he considered I should pay, charged at £25.00 per letter for touting for business did not help his case. Had I discarded them my evidence would have been lost.
I had a run in with a dodgy female lawyer who kept stringing the case on and on until the person with whom I was trying to get a deal concluded with threatened her with the law society....this had a very quick result and no extra bills for extra letters
A very long time ago I needed a solicitor but told him not to spend any more than a specific amount in writing. They did, so I dug my heels in and they backed down. And, while I was waiting for the bill, the solicitor whilst he was having lunch called me in his office for a friendly chat, I was taking a law degree at the time. He had my folder on his desk that I had just put there. I then went and got my bill. Went back into his office and picked up my file. At home I noticed a piece of paper in it that he had completed showing he was charging me for our friendly chat. He lost his paper and never charged me. Bloody cheek.
You should have done a DSAR for them any way or demanded them in disclosure before the trial just to find out what they claim doesn't exist, like the emails. Then you have evidence they are dishonest and a claim under the DPA for damages, or better still, contempt for defying a specific disclosure order, and the criminal offence under s.173.
Not that any judge would ever imprison a solicitor for contempt - they are the same gang.
I’m not sure if you covered this frequent tactic……but unless I hear from you by close of business yesterday I will assume you didn’t.
I agree that the weekend letter is intended to worry you and ruin your weekend, which is disgusting. 😔
Pick up your mail on a Thursday instead of a Friday. It won't make any difference timewise, and if you need to respond to anything in it, you have all week to do so.
In reality, the post goes, and arrives when it does so. You can't expect solicitors not to send a letter on a Thursday if it is ready to go. The UK Post Office is doing a jolly good job of randomising when mail is delivered anyway. Perhaps cancelling Friday and Saturday deliveries might be a good thing!
I was to go to zoom mediation during lockdown the defense statement was emailed to me 10 minutes before. I canceled the meeting to make sure I could read it all properly.
BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for giving encouragement to people like us. I am an 80 year old pensioner, grievously wronged on many well-documented accounts, who must now sue a health trust to get some semblance of justice for my family. It would take far to long to describe their admitted DP and Human Rights abuses - I mention this only to place our admiration for your channel into context - and this is our problem, not yours. But - thank you. Your videos are superbly useful to the 'little people' who are sometimes so grievously harmed by large organizations, or NHS Trusts, who have huge power, wield this power to cause serious harm - and then spend vast sums denying the fact.
Had a dispute with a neighbour who in one of the emails basically had a line that said if I didn't comply with his demands then he indicated he would drive up legal costs and even stated the cost of how much a solicitor's letter was! He probably thought he was being clever, but I knew that would be a great one to bring up in court. Decided just to block his email - if anything was going to happen I'd get a letter. Heard nothing ever again
What's puzzling me is why the law firm who threatened the guy with breach of trademark legislation didn't think "What if he seeks legal advice and discovers he's not in breach, we could look silly and he might complain against us"
They are relying on that fact that most people won't consult a lawyer. Which is pretty daft since more than 50% of home owners will have access to a free lawyer via their home insurance!
If you have ever complained about a solicitors you would know it is a complete waste of time and is not a deterrent to them.
@@OncleM I helped someone else complain about a solicitor that had charged them £800 for “Opening a file” and got this reduced to £200.
Umm...no. They just thought, as solicitors always do, right or wrong, we'll go along with this solely on the basis of what our client says, because he's paying us quite well just to send out a letter.
@@tlangdon12 £200, to open a file? what does mean? "open a file", are talking ring binder, and some A4 paper, your local stationery supplies big box file, 5 or 6 reams A4 paper, 6000 pages about, and bank box to put it all in? that the bargain price £200, ?
A common bad faith negotiation is putting 'without prejudice' on the letter (which means it cannot be used in court), but used as a vehicle to make veiled threats outside court. If you receive a letter marked without prejudice that is not a genuine attempt to settle early, send it on to the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) with a complaint against the issuing legal team. Bonus - it costs you nothing, and unlike the police regulator (IOPC) the SRA actually has teeth.
But, pretty sure many parts of a without prejudice letter CAN end up being used in a case at trial which exclude settlements...cannot WP threats of violence etc?
A without prejudice letter is only without prejudice is where there is a genuine attempt at negotiations to settle. Otherwise, the phrase is meaningless, only that it is not always seen that way. The last time I was in a multi hearing case the defendant placed in the bundles in three hearings without prejudice material despite me telling them of their error. In one hearing, the hearing was abandoned by the judge because of this ‘error’: I had my costs. But, they did it again and the next judge ignored it.
WP letters are used when calculating costs when attempts of settlement are being made typically. The purpose is not to avoid those very letters being included in a bundle for a hearing! What do I know, I’m a butcher 😂
@@TheTeaisDelicious Exclude word 'not' ...
Well that's wrong... Part 36 of the Cvil Procedure Rules specifically permits WP offers
I have encountered cases where solicitors have ruthlessly exploited a litigant in persons lack of knowledge of the law. For example in one case a solicitor told a litigant in person, that if the judgment went against him, he would automatically get a CCJ for six years. In practice it would have been removed if he had paid the judgment debt within 30 days of the judgment. The intention seems to have been to panic him into signing a consent order on very unfavorable terms.
Good Afternoon Blackbelt Barrister. Thank you for your helpful Video. You a decent man that is why you are very blessed.
I have had this threatening letter / demand for payment treatment from a private parking company over a two year period arriving on Fridays, weekends the day before my birthday and a day before Xmas Eve. Pure psychological harassment. We live in a very "unbalanced" society
Sorry that you were bullied at school. Love your channel and thank you for all that you do.
😅 you've just listed every tactic our neighbours' solicitor used during a 5 year dispute over nothing. It has all fizzled away for the moment but we keep wondering what their next frivolous claim will be. This was refreshingly accurate and reassuring to know we are not the only ones... thank you!
Very Admirable off you to give your time for free. An extremely rare thing on youtube these days. Cheers
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You are a true inspiration 🎉
Absolutely great video. May I ask - who / what audits these practices? - dirty behaviour is common practice and shall remain so, until such time proper protocols are monitored. what are the penalties? - are they proportional, doubtful.
My biggest pet peeve with the legal system is the sense of entitlement that certain solicitors and even barristers carry in to Court. They often perceive someone as below them and will actually lie about what can and can't happen and even what someone appearing in Court can and can't do.
A case I attended as a McKenzie Friend for a family member regarding residency of their child. As a courtesy I introduced myself to the other party's representative (who happened to be a barrister on this occasion) prior to entering the Court and my status as a McKenzie Friend. He replied along the lines that he had no objection to me entering the Court but "reminded" me that as I was not a qualified legal representative (I hadn't told him either way), I was not permitted to speak in the Court under any circumstance. I obviously knew that I wasn't allowed to question the other side directly but in this type of hearing that wasn't appropriate or necessary. I was allowed to talk to the family member I was with discretely, take notes, and ensure that all items on the papers were discussed (at this point the other side had, in my opinion, deliberately ignored several points). It was clear to me that this particular barrister was not only trying to control my family member but also the Court.
My family member was struggling to articulate a concern they had and I leaned in gently to them and gave them an appropriate sentence. The Court asked me who I was and my status. I told them who I was, what I was, my qualifications and apologised that I hadn't spoken out as the other party's representative had informed me that I wasn't permitted to talk at all. The other party's lawyer actually blushed terribly. The Court asked him if what I said was true and he had to admit it was. He was ejected from the room immediately and called back after the hearing had finished. I can only assume that he got one heck of a dressing down as he never reappeared for the other party.
Love to hear some of those stories about thwarting thrives!!
Another helpfull video, I'm just experiencing dirty tactics with DWP (universal credit) they have failed to assess me for limited capacity to work claiming their is no record of my forms. Citizens advice bureau have helped me confirmed I sent forms back in January 2023 i will find out on the 15th February if they are complying with procedures if they don't i might require your services. Other tactics to keep me quiet are sanctions after coming out of hospital, changing appointments even telling me I am not allowed to find a partime job to increase finances for my business C.A.B. have implied my case could be addressed by MP Jeremy Hunt sorry for a long comment but alot of points to get accross this will be my 2nd court case against a government body
I always get the "holiday letter" when they know I am away they send the papers funnily enough, although the weekend letter is good for me, because I read all the law over the weekend in my free time and I know what to come back with for a solicitor to look at.
We are blessed to have you too!
Another one I’ve come across, specifically relating to the GDPR is that a company when it is asked for data it doesn’t want to give out is, they’ll say, we’ll need a court order to release that, in the hope that their antagonist will back off.
If this was on the Police tactics it would be a 10 hour video 📹
more like 10 months. Britain/s Mafia.
I'm from South Africa. We have lawyers and advocate. please. Explain the difference plze.i hope someone read this😮
@@ceceliakirchner970 you wrote that as a reply to a comment about the police - the people most likely to take your life savings from you. Your comment is not in the right place.
Which is why you should normally use local resolution as quickly as possible, accept their rubbish excuse as the close of their pre-court defence, and then go to a solicitor. The police then can't go using local resolution as a delay/derailing tactic at court to cost you out of the game. Plus you get to use the police rubbish excuses in court against them.
The IOPC is a different level of joke; can't force the police to do anything, and have a 1 year waiting list (and most police misconduct cases have a 6 month deadline before they are out of time anyway). Total waste of time and money.
@@shambhangal438 absolutely right about the IOPC.
They are all police officers on secondment, it seems, - very much seeking to protect and serve their mates.
BBB, Very interesting and informative ! Thank you for the video and good morning from the U.S.A.
Good evening from Scotland 🏴 it's funny that on this spinning ball there are good folks in US approaching lunch when we've already had a late dinner :-)
You need to do a police one. Perhaps with some Bingo Cards. Play some videos of interactions, with a bingo card for the tactic the police are using.
Such as? I haven't ever been in an interview where a barrister was involved. With respect to the accused, it's a Solicitor or Advocate that sits in interviews/advises the accused.
One more to add is falsifying the date of the letter in order to provoke a panicked response. For example, a solicitor once sent me a letter which arrived less than two weeks after a fender bender. In it he rudely and aggressively demanded my insurance details within two weeks. The letter was dated two weeks prior to receipt, i.e. before the accident. I pointed this out in my reply, and asked why his client had not passed them on, having been provided at the scene. His client had, after all, managed to pass him my name and address.
Keep the date stamped envelopes will all correspondence. Then if any problems arise from not responding in a timely manner according to the date on the letter, you can prove when it was postmarked and actually sent out.
Thank you for all your advice
One item that ought to go on the list is the requirement for a speedy response that simply isn't necessary . I've had letters from solicitors demanding a response within 7 days for no other reason than it tries to put pressure on the recipient. However, I had the benefit of excellent advice many years ago from John Kane a Registered Architect, a Barrister, a lecturer in construction law and an extremely well respected legal expert on construction and building contract law. John's advice when receiving any letter with a deadline was to respond expeditiously with "Thank you for your letter of... I note the contents and will reply in due course". It goes without saying that where there are prescribed procedures and timescale these must be adhered to. Just not replying to a letter with a spurious deadline does not look good in court but sending the holding letter buys time for a more considered and less rushed response as well as showing the other party that you will not be intimidated.
Those who are calling us thin skinned are reflecting what they are, thin skinned, cowards expressing themselves as such, and what is more these cowards would have nothing if we that stand by what is right, and fight for what is right kept silent. So unthinking, so ungrateful are those who simply call us down for their own immature character.
Excellent, honest introduction. What you say is perfectly correct, and made me smile about sending letters out at the last minute in order to try and spoil your weeken. Stll makes me smile when I get them, now and then. Subtle with the Bar Council, so subtal. I always ask the aggressor to justify what they are saying, or withdraw, and keep on because they cannot justify. Just did one with the police and they backed off with their unjustified threats.
Wrong footing, ambush attacks I also have had to deal with and called the judge to suspend matters until having chance to look into them. Litigant in person, as to what you say, I have always done this, knowing that my basis, foundation is strong, that the other parties is week, so I have reasoned argument with the other side, costing them thousands. In one case the other side gave up because of cost.
Nice one about post codes as I have had that done to me, and the defendants made out that they knew nothing of it. Miss direction in faulty goods is also, as you say, done. If the item is faulty, and the sellers agrees, no amount of using the word expert can change matters. The thing speaks for itself. It is both bad for business and show dishonesty of a business to others, who will not wish to have anything to do with them. Treat people honestly and the majority will thank you for it, and advertise your business as good
As usual, a great chat. had the weekend letter several times which I have used to my advantage.
Can you please give us your opinion on exposing social services and the corruption within the family courts? I think that would be good for everyone, thanks
He won't if he doesn't want to be disbarred. He's a black belt lawyer for TH-cam likes not a real life tough guy who'll stand up against the system
Penny chews hate English Christians , it's always been the way. It's All fraud
If you want to know just how bad it is - because I can prove all manner of ineptitude and corruption, do have a watch of my very boring (because i made it comprehensive) video by searching TH-cam "UK family courts - proof of total corruption" my channel is survival Sweden. EVERY organisation feeding into the court, plus the court itself was inept/corrupt and every effort at complain has been stonewalled. TEN hearings against me I was never even informed of the my mad ex took the absolute mickey out of the system, as blatant as you like about abusing it.
@@AshSiddiq-id4ly who knows - if enough people document ineptitude and corruption carefully, perhaps we can get together and take the UK to the Court of Human Rights? The family courts are a total p take from start to finish - they neither know nor follow the law, solicitors and judges alike!
@@AshSiddiq-id4ly For sure not without huge fee.
Loved your points about if you are a litigant in person
Most of these dirty tricks also work for office politics
And Judaism
That is why i ignore emails on a Friday afternoon :P if its important use teams then if its a genuine problem i can fix it , if its not i can tell you where to go.
I love the fact that you explain in detail what your reasoning and thought process is behind your thoughts/actions. I also think it is great that you decided to stick up to the "Big Man" and became a Barrister. Very inspiring! Thank you for doing what you do. Educational and informative.. but never legal advice ;)
Love this channel. So easy to follow. You Sir are a star you've my utmost respect. Wished you was around 40yrs back. Good lad, keep it up. But do watch out for ides of March type. Atb Dave
Another one, particularly when there is a litigant in person, is the creation of spurious counterclaims to elevate the claims track beyond small claim.
A family member is facing many of these tactics in an employment tribunal case. Multi billion $ US company's legal representation lying to the court, delaying discovery, stating documents don't exist when some have been supplied via DSAR, making very low offer to settle (2% of claim), sending 'without prejudice' letter stating all costs will be recovered if she doesn't win more than claimed, sending 'weekend letters' and documents, claiming to court she is delaying handing docs over when they have been given and confirmed. Legal rep appears to be making their fees a priority, not a case settlement.
Discovery docs show how much at fault they were and prove her case. Tribunal set for a full 5 days with panel of 3.
All my past litigation notifications were received on Christmas Eve some giving me 14 days to respond. Too much of a coincidence.
Yes. Few things are operating over Christmas holidays.
One that caught me out many years ago; I was sole witness and victim of a RTI; the court date was set and I was notified, then about a week before the date, I received what appeared to be a letter from the court, postponing the court case by a month, so I cancelled plans to travel for my appearance.
A few days after the original date, I got a letter stating that, as I had failed to show - the charges had been dropped.
If I had been older, perhaps I could have formally complained about the fake court letter; but at the time, I was too inexperienced to know what to do.
Slightly different matter however many years ago in Australia a man won a civil matter and then sent his legal representatives a card to say thank you. They sent him a bill for opening and reading the card.
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Hearing your upbringing and how you dealt with it really bring down to east why you are doing here what you doing( pardon my English…… hit a bully in class and got kicked from the exam….. good thing as it was the lessons I was put in detour for lol)
Glad your here and with every post you deliver ….. your reason reason is becoming more relatable for me
Please please please help the people that didn’t have your strength to deal with it as positivity as you did
For me personally……. I can see your heart starting to come through the more you show your experience ….. showing us your not just a barrister
Again I don’t explain myself well but hope my message was taken sincerely
You’re a good man…….
Bad behaviour should always be called out. Good on you Daniel for sticking up for yourself.
Another dubious tactic is providing vast amounts of irrelevant material during discovery/disclosure, so that the other party's lawyers have to waste time ploughing through thousands of irrelevant emails etc, increasing legal fees. This tactic is especially effective in the US, where there's no way of recovering costs from the other party.
I was in court for a direction hearing on the 5th of January as a litigant in person, Jason. They sent a trainee solicitor who had never presented a case before.
He argued with the Judge about me presenting a skeleton argument. The Judge explained that I have no legal training and I am not able to present such an argument.
He persisted and you could see the Judge visibly annoyed. This was after he barged into the court and the Judge had not finished her previous case.
He questioned him as to why he hadn't waited to be brought in by the usher.
BTW, Jason. This too is a massive multinational that I'm taking to court to have an NDA annulled.
I’m a new subscriber here and just wanted to say that I really like your presentation style and come across as someone that’ll be great to chat to in real life. Appreciate the time you take to explain everything super clearly.
Thank you for being here with your unique experience!
I am a pro se litigator and I always do some of these types of winning tactics.
Never Lie to the Court in person or on papers because the courts will not hesitate to financially Sanction litigants for lying
I had a lawyer call me one time and complain that he was not going to make any money on suing me because of these types of tactics
What a brilliant, helpful video. You’re so right it’s the fear thing which is used. Thank you.
Thank you Daniel ❤🕊👍🏼
My faith in mankind is restored knowing good guys like yourself are among us. 👍
Lawyers have dirty tactics. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. 😲
Penny chew controlled shills
It's commonly referred to as loopholes.
@@Sotto_ the city of London is one square mile of loopholes..
😅 I laugh every time I hear thst quote. I had to use it myself today when someone made an implicit threat of bad publicity. I was shocked, shocked to find that such a thing was happening.
Just try dealing with some insurance companies. It's like they use a similar list as a "how-to" manual.
Thank you BB, please keep up the GREAT work
Thankyou for that!!!
Very true Daniel but due r to the fact I don't want to speak on media but God bless you glad to see you looking better that sad look has gone always remember you deserve everything that comes your way you are a beacon. Of light
In my experience dealing with issues that may end up in some form of legal judgement it is best to keep in mind that any action or communication you take can be seen to be fair and reasonable in the particular circumstances.
This often highlights the unreasonableness of the other party which can have a significant influence on any final judgement or outcome.
Sometimes by using unfair tactics your opponent backs themselves into a corner which their legal advisers realise will place them at a significant disadvantage if the matter goes to trial and recomends settling. You just need to be consistent in your persistence to get justice.
Thank you once again for another informative video. Very useful information 🙏
I agree, I had been to family court but the mother broke the order, i sold everything to take her back to court and again she ignored the courts, I couldn't afford to go back to court again, she admitted her reasons why she broke the order and still never had any consequences put on her, she knew exactly what she was doing. Now the child involved is suffering the consequences of her breech of the order. It disgusts me how this is allowed to happen.
I feel for you. My son is going through the same thing. She has broke the court order but no one cares. This does need to stop. Some fathers are the better parent than the mother but the court doesn't see it. Hope you get sorted
Love your channel.
Also love the fact that in your previous video, whoever the solicitor was wrote to "Mr Chapona"
thank you so much for all the information 👍
"The mills of God..." and all that,Daniel!Really useful stuff.Thank you.
Well said, Daniel. My favourite "weekend letter" was a client who turned up on 30 December, very grateful to see us open, holding a letter dated 16 December that had been put in the Christmas post and had arrived that morning. It expressed the urgency of the matter and threatened all sorts of trade mark infringement proceedings if action was not taken within 14 days... i.e, by the 30th.
I emailed the London law firm that had sent it, and received an autoreply noting the office was shut until 10 January... They returned to their office to find a copy of the invalidation proceedings lodged in respect of their (invalid) trade mark registration, and an offer to waive the claim to unjustified threats if they conceded the invalidation and paid our costs.
A few decades ago, I was a victim of a solicitor whose poor office organisation was about to cost me a lot of money. I went to see them and the lady solicitor saw a 22 year old with a baby about 6 months old on her knee. She got a surprise as my story unfolded and she realised that her office was to blame for the problem I had. That visit saved me a lot of money as she paid for my solicitor to sort out the problem her office created. I was so innocent I didn't realise how much I was doing to encourage that response.
I was at court yesterday due to non payment of a parking charge notice. Thankfully the case was dismissed, which was a result but the solicitors tried a number of these tactics. It's really useful for regular everyday people to know this type of stuff because when you are willing to stand up against bullies and injustice and you are up against such knowledge and expertise and a client that has the funds for a good legal team, you often feel hopeless.
Congratulations on your subscriber numbers BBB, protecting others is honourable, maybe you could wear a cape and mask when you challenge these coward bullies
I got into a disagreement over a bill about 20 years ago, ended up involving the bank as they were also being quite naughy with the direct debit but that's another story.
They made a point of informing me that it's an offence under the civil reforms act to not attempt resolving the matter outside of court first in their final letter. Strangly I didn't heard anything back after pointing out I've sent various emails, letters (some registered), faxes and phone calls over the preceding 12 months to ask what the amount is for, and that neither them nor their client had ever attempted to actually provide an answer.
Fantastic , Thank you. BBB
Thanks and respect BBB; you are genuinely a good man. Mair strength tae yer airm. Same goes for Robert.
What I have seen as standard practice is for solicitors to draw out negotiations deliberately. I instructed one to take another person to court at the outset because I had exhausted all other options with them directly and had strong evidence supporting my claim. The solicitor insisted on letter sending which simply reestablished what I already knew and took over £2000 of costs. I had to push them to initiate a high court action claim, but as soon as I authorised payment (verbally), the opposing solicitor immediately capitulated and meet all my demands. Likely this cost the other person a similar amount of money. I believe their solicitor told them they could solve their case and have me pay all the costs despite them having no defence.
Later I sued the opposing solicitor for a related issue in the small claims court, they held out until I produced every piece of evidence against them (ie letters they had sent to me). Their approach was simply to hold out until there was no hope, when they knew they were at fault. Both these cases where IMO open and shut cases, but yet the solicitor denied everything until they had no other option, probably hoping I'd give up.
The Weekend Letter - haha, by Royal Mail? First Class stamp is meaningless, be quicker by pigeon.
I quit private practice because it was my view that solicitors were more interested in how much they can bill clients, rather than achieving the best outcome early.
Jarndyce V Jarndyce. Bleak House. Charles Dickens, springs to mind. Thank you Daniel.
you are a pleasure to listen to. the amount of passion and work you put i your video shows itself very well.
the subject matter of this video is very important and good o know. without knowing this I would cower and submit to such threats but now I would seek legal advice and stand my ground.
I was recently told that in civil cases recording of calls and emails are not acceptable. This seems wrong in a modern society especially considering the price of stamps/signed for.
Very interesting, thank you for this excellent and informative video.
The first 2 minutes on this, will help re-build some inner strength.
This I feel, was very much needed.........Thank you.
" you had me at hello" 😅
Companies and Councils with a franking machine often back date letters and send it so you receive the demand close to the deadline to do something, or even after it has passed? This includes bailiffs , so they can run up costs?
It has been many years since I opened anything other than personal letters on a weekend. Utility bills or anything. Personal letters and greetings cards only at weekends.
When I had a long running dispute with my bank, which I won, they always sent letters at the weekend!
This was very informative, thank you very much.
Once again a Very informative Video from Daniel, Every day is a School day Thank you Daniel
From my experience with Litigation when you are representing yourself against someone with a Lawyer is how they try to belittle, bully and intimidate you
The favourite if they have your email is to send a contentious message late on a Friday.
You keep up the good work buddy, I sued a company and only used the company name I had a good solicitor and good barrister as it went to crown court
You sometimes get a letter with what I call 'Legal Jargon' in other words most people don't know what half of it means and get scrared and panic, especially if it is one of those weekend letters.
The Wodge. You send, at the last minute, a huge wodge of papers. Everything you can find that's relevant to the case. Copies of Legislation. Copies of case law. Copies of Newspaper articles. Book references. No index of course to help them
Then every 20 or 30 pages you put the really interesting document that you want to spring on the other side.
Will they read the entire document to check?
No sending of legislation or case law, that would be clearly ridiculous. Exchanging can be swamping by its nature.
@@taras6806 The local council had a go at me. I bought a house. 10 years later they gave me a week to rip the roof off.
Anyway, I read their letter etc, read the rules, employed a friend's father who was an ex town planer for a fixed price. 400 pages dumped on them at the last minute, by courier, mostly stuff out of their own archives. Lots of it. That was for the public inquiry. You have a right to that. They were expecting 4-5 pages from me. End result they employed a barrister for 8 weeks.
@@adenwellsmith6908 Ah, that's a whole different kettle of fish - a private individual sending bumpf to a Council rather than lawyer to lawyer or lawyer to individual (and from you as the 'weaker' power). I hope they didn't seek to charge you for their employment of a barrister (though all have in-house lawyers anyway) and that any such attempt was not accepted. Have to say, I like your tactics!
Richard Vobes had a long chat with someone dealing with a council over council tax. Their dirty tricks in my view are illegal.
However in his case, they are still whistling.
@@taras6806
My council tax is going to be paid by commemorative coin. It's legal tender for settlement of any debt, and I can get them at a discount on e-Bay.
My bet is that paypoint won't accept them. I'll video it as evidence. Then the letter goes off to the council saying their subcontractors refused to accept payment. With the added bit that any attempt to prosecute would be malicious prosecution.
Then those coins. They are evidence. I'll mark them with a UV pen, video it all, and put it into the court, sealed plastic bag. Lots of markings that its "EVIDENCE". A letter they need to sign to say they have accepted the evidence, and that it will be produced in the case.
My bet is they will cash the money. Then when it comes to the court case, where's the evidence? Demand its return. What are they going to do then? Gets some replacement coins? They won't know about the UV pen.
Good advice for Litigants in Person. Thanks
This was one of your best streams .Great advice 100% 👍👍👍👍
Excellent video Dan, may I suggest one more, the "switch of personnel" tactic.
You are a gentleman Sir.
I only ever open post on Thursday s 😅😅😅
thank you sir
Tip: never open any mail until Monday
Don't pick it up on a Friday.
A very good and informative video BBB.
I have had a solicitor's letter from a toxic neighbour regarding a fence they want to put up ( for years the neighbour had this fence in their garage ) stating they had planning permission and we can not stop it !
Well first off if they had permission why are you telling me, just get on with it. However, we wrote back to the solicitor in question stating case history, police involvement against the neighbour on this issue, and the ace card we have was a Deed of covenant in her deeds. Which the neighbours accidently forgot to mention the solicitor, and he did not ask why in the past if you have planning permission the said fence had not gone up !
Well we sent one letter stating his conduct, his threating language in the letter, that will are reporting him ( for the same reasons BBB stated in his previous video ) and we will see him and his client in court.
Strangely enough the solicitors stop representing the toxic neighbour ( this was back up with a phone call we made to the solicitor office ), and I believe the solicitor grape vine meant the neighbour found it very difficult to get another solicitor to act for them.
Morale this story is do not PANIC, read the letter careful, and start constructing a counter letter. We did not engage a solicitor to respond as we did all our selves. BBB is correct in mentioning if you keep sending in letters requesting action or information. The time taken by the solicitor or their team will be billed to their client, and I am sure we cost the toxic neighbour a fair bit of money ! ! !
Great video - excellent 👍
Tank you for this vid. From personal experience I can identify with many of the points you outlined. I think you are probably the exception not the norm.