For the lawsuit against BHP, the high cost of litigation has resulted in financial pressures for Pogust Goodhead. Its 2022 annual accounts posted losses of £290m and auditors reported “material uncertainty regarding an ongoing concern”.
Ambulance chasing lawyers might go bust? Be still my beating heart.
In equally joyous news:
A firm whose name is never pronounced as written.
(There used to be local solicitors Few and Kester. You can imagine the vulgar pronunciation.)
When are we going to line all the lawyers up and machine gun them into a mass grave?
@ Bloke in North Dorset
It’s not joyous news at all, they are being prosecuted before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal which can impose sanctions like fines, suspensions, or striking off the roll. Joyous would be an Old Bailey trial resulting in long custodial sentences for the fraud their legal activity abetted. A fraud serious enough to put the chief perpetrator on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list. Do normal crime and punishment rules not apply to the lawyers?