Lord Chancellor v Blavo and Co Solictors Ltd [2018] EWHC 3556 (QB)

John Blavo personally ordered to repay Legal Aid claims The High Court gave judgment for the Lord Chancellor against John Blavo in the sum of £22,136,001.71 following the allegation that Blavo & Co made dishonest claims for payment on the legal aid fund for thousands of cases where it was not entitled to any fee.

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Summary of Blavo case. Paul Bracchi, 'How DID they let this legal aid lawyer con us all out of £22m?' (Daily Mail, 11/1/19) — The following quotation is from this detailed article: "In another ludicrous example, investigators found that the mental health facility in question had closed (in 2008) and burnt down (in 2010), so was not operational at the time the tribunal supposedly took place. The officials who checked this nonsense must have wondered if the person who put it on paper was a solicitor or a comedian."

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Full judgment: BAILII^!

Subject(s):

Miscellaneous🔍

Date: 21/12/18🔍

Court: High Court (Queen's Bench Division)🔍

Judge(s):

Pepperall🔍

Parties:

Lord Chancellor🔍
Blavo and Co Solictors Ltd🔍
John Blavo🔍

Judicial history:

Lord Chancellor v Blavo and Co Solictors Ltd [2018] EWHC 3556 (QB) (recovery of public funds)
- Lord Chancellor v John Blavo [2016] EWHC 126 (QB), [2016] MHLO 6 (freezing order)
John Blavo v Law Society [2018] EWCA Civ 2250 (statutory demand)
- John Blavo v Law Society [2017] EWHC 561 (Ch)
Blavo and Co Solicitors (SRA decision: closure) [2015] MHLO 70 (closure)

Citation number(s):

[2018] EWHC 3556 (QB)^!

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Published: 1/1/19

Cached: 2019-08-23 01:09:00