Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Legal action?

Can anyone cast any light on the professional indemnity case brought by the town council against its former legal representative?



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 3:45 PM
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could this be Vernon Mitchell and the de Moulham Trust?? Seems to be the rumour.

11/3/09 11:35 pm
Anonymous said...

Yes, I picked it up from the annual accounts of the trust posted on the charity commission website. Just wondered what it is all about.

12/3/09 10:32 am
Anonymous said...

Adding to that last comment I made, having trawled Google for Vernon Mitchell I discovered the minutes of a council meeting at which it was stated that he had moved to another firm of solicitors as the one he worked for had been taken over and the council decided to move their business to his new employers as they still wished to deal with him. Next thing is a few thousand pounds the council did not know about turns up and there's a professional indemnity claim being made. All very interesting but the way things are done semi-secretly in Swanage does invite us to read the worst interpretation into it, possibly quite unjustly.

12/3/09 1:45 pm
Anonymous said...

For the life of me, I cannot find the de Moulham Trust registered under the charity commission.

Could anyone provide the link?

13/3/09 11:42 am
Anonymous said...

Its official name is the Mowlem Land Trust. Here is the link http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1049323&SubsidiaryNumber=0

Finding it was made a little harder by the two spellings of Mowlem. The reference to their problem with their former legal representative is in the accounts. According to these they have over £100k to spend on funding art culture and sport to benefit the people of Swanage with particular reference to the young and the old. Regretably I have seen no mention of how organisations active in these fields can obtain funding from the Trust.

13/3/09 12:21 pm

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