Discussion: Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Coupon-mad

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

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

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.