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: Current AwarenessSolicitors accused over ?dubious deals? with union official that cost sick miners thousands - The Times
By sally
“Britain?s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with ‘conscious impropriety’ in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Full post as published by Current Awareness on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).
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