Discussion: Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Coupon-mad · 18 December 2025 at 11:17PM

I don't like the way appeals are run. The appellant only has to win on one point which I always think skews results in favour of appellants if they have a good legal team.

I reckon some lawyers will overturn this because the lady is a LiP & I fear they'll walk all over her this time.

They only need to crack one point.

Watch this space though. Being one myself, I am on the side of the feisty Sussex woman!

Car1980 · 19 December 2025 at 10:37AM

Let's hope she has some evidence of the impact this is having in the real world - unqualified staff are now just signing documents as if the qualified person has formulated it, whereas they've never even set eyes on it.

doubledotcom · 19 December 2025 at 8:21PM

Put the following, for example, to the SRA:

DCB Legal’s parking claims formerly showed an unauthorised employee as signatory. Immediately after Mazur, claim forms now show Mr David John Croot (a solicitor). Given the firm’s very high volume, it appears implausible that Mr Croot is personally performing the reserved step of issuing each claim via MCOL and signing the statement of truth.

I reasonably suspect unauthorised staff are conducting litigation by submitting claims under his name. Please require the firm to evidence, for a sample of cases, (i) who actually submitted each MCOL claim (user IDs, audit logs), (ii) who applied the statement of truth, and (iii) the firm’s supervision and delegation arrangements.

kryten3000 · 26 February at 5:34PM

Coverage of the appeal hearing is here:

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/mazur-monday-cilex-reveals-its-arguments-as-court-of-appeal-case-set-to-start/5125972.article

Day 1
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/live-court-of-appeal-hears-submissions-in-crucial-mazur-case/5125969.article

Day 2
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/live-court-of-appeal-hears-submissions-on-day-two-of-crucial-mazur-case/5126005.article

Day 3
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/live-mazur-day-three-sra-submits-decision-should-stand-julia-mazur-addresses-court/5126016.article

Judgment has been reserved.

From the live reporting Ms Mazur and Mr Stuart made some very good arguments. I particularly liked Stuart's point:

'Parliament was on top of this when it drafted the act, saying the employee and employer had to be authorised’. That is not to say that tasks cannot be delegated, but the public need the protection that the LSA provides.'

‘[Consumers] are getting as close to a guarantee as could possibly be provided by parliament,’ he adds. ‘What is the purpose of reserving an activity if even I can do it? It is crystal clear to me that both the employer and employee should be authorised and that gives me confidence that the system is going to work the way it should.’