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Sick miners? solicitor, Jim Beresford, 58, made £40m

A solicitor made a personal profit of more than £40 million from his firm?s handling of compensation claims by sick miners. Jim Beresford, 58, banked £37.7 million from 2004-07, and in the year ending September 2007 his share of Beresfords? profits was £10.2 million. He was struck off last month after a tribunal ruled that he acted with ?conscious impropriety? in dealings with a mining union that supplied clients. The Government paid Beresfords £136 million for handling 97,000 claimsfrom miners with chronic lung disease. Many received less than £1,000.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).