Solicitor overcharging - Growing clamour for prosecutions

WHEN leading members of the Law Society gather tomorrow to investigate complaints against solicitors, a growing clamour for prosecutions to be brought against the culprits will be ringing in their ears.

Following the scandal of double charging for work on abuse cases before the Institutional Redress Board, public cynicism over the blatant arrogance displayed by some elements of the legal profession has never been greater.

Fresh demands for offending solicitors to be prosecuted have been voiced by a British-based institutional survivors group, the London Irish Centre’s Survivors Outreach Service. It believes that banks which facilitated the notorious double charging of clients should also face the full rigours of the law.