26^th February 2013

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

In my last blog I told you about the happenings in the Worksop County Court when Alfred Sevier (Nelsons) Solicitors were acting on my case, and subsequently in the Lincoln Combined Court when I had to act as a Litigant in Person due to Sevier (Nelsons) refusing to act on my behalf.

In Worksop Court Ms Reynolds had agreed with the Judge and the Defendant’s solicitor to interview witnesses (those employed at the Bassetlaw Hospital) and who I had served witnesses summonses on them to appear in Worksop County Court in my Pre-action Disclosure of Medical Records Issue. All four witnesses had seen and considered the 19/08/91 LAT View X-ray of my Right knee showing the bony lesion on the medial aspects of my Right knee in that film.

To show you that what I am saying to you here is true, about the way I’ve been treated by solicitors, and in this case Alfred Sevier, I am copying below two letters to Ms Karen Reynolds dated 15^th and 16^th September 1999. You should find them self-explicit.

Furthermore, and to show that all the solicitors instructed on my case were not working within my interests, and I quote from the letter to me dated February 25 1998 from Mr Harris, Orthopaedic Surgeon in Harley Street where Mr Harris said; Dr Mourad’s report said “There could be loose bodies within the joint.” This refers to the Right knee. This is the same as the loose fragment over the medial aspect of the knee reported in the letter 19.7.96 and the x-ray 19.8.91.

Mr Harris confirmed that the loose fragment could be seen in the 19.8.91 x-ray and I had wanted the witnesses, those who I had summoned to court to give evidence that a LAT View x-ray of my Right knee did/had existed, and that it was just the Bassetlaw Hospital Trust who were denying this to be the case. I was being denied this option by both the Judge and subsequently by my solicitor Karen Reynolds by her refusing to interview those witnesses.

Again, there is much more on this matter and later I am going to expose Mr Tim Slow, solicitor at Gosschalks Solicitors of Hull, who had agreed to take on my case in November 1999 under my Legal Aid Certificate but then refused to represent me in the Lincoln Combined Court in December 1999. I even had to represent myself at the Appeal Court in London on 6^th April 2000 where and when the Judge (Lord Justice Mantell) refused my appeal but did go on to say that Mr Harris had given it to me, in his letter to me dated February 25 1998, and I should tell my solicitor this he said.

When I told Mr Slow what Lord Justice Mantell had said about Mr Harris’s letter, he just said that he did not agree with Lord Justice Mantell, and he went-on over the year to screw-up my case!

I can tell you here that every solicitor who accepted my case (and there has been many over the years) first agreed that there was a case for Bassetlaw Hospital Trust to answer but once they had spoken to the Defendant’s solicitors (Kieran Bhogal and then Nicola MacKay) at Beachcroft Wansbroughs Solicitors of Sheffield, they changed their minds and went on to try and close my case down.

Before I sign-off today I will have to tell you about the time (14:30hrs on 23/2/2001) when I attended an appointment to see solicitor Mr Booth, at Taylor Simpson & Mosley Solicitors at 32 The Rope Walk Nottingham. My husband and I were there for over an hour with Mr Booth while he made notes and completed a Legal Aid Form for me to sign. Mr Booth was more than happy to take my case on under Legal Aid funding but at the end of the meeting my husband just happened to mention that Charles Gillott of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors in Sheffield had been instructed on a previous case. Without hesitation, Mr Booth jumped-up, tore-up the completed Legal Aid Forms, gave me my files back and turned and said; “This conversation has not taken place and you have not been here”. He quickly escorted us off the premises. Why I wonder, he never did say why?

At a subsequent Legal Aid Appeal Hearing my husband presented them with a transcript of the aforementioned meeting with Mr Booth, and whilst they were absolutely gob-smacked they did nothing about Mr Booth and his misgivings as a solicitor having Legal Aid Franchise.

This true story continues

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