Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
This goes way beyond a lawyer acting unethically. If Milne knows the statements he's making are false (and it seems likely he does) then it's fraud.
A civil court has already found Milne to be dishonest.
That should have immediately ended his career as a solicitor.
The public should be protected.
Three immediate steps:
1. the police should investigate Milne for fraud.
2. the Solicitors Regulation Authority should shut down his firm. They have more than enough to suspect dishonesty (one of the grounds in Part 1 Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974).
3. the SRA should impose immediate restrictions on Milne, suspending him from practising as a solicitor pending the outcome of an investigation.
Usual SRA procedures are - rightly - careful and slow. This is a case where protection of the public requires immediate action.
The Sheffield Tribune article is here: sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-lawye…
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