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From: Ed Boyce [mailto:[FOI #731364 email]]
Sent: 25 February 2021 13:21
To: SDT Enquiries <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Solicitors Bradley Bloom SRA ID
259161 and Allan Hooper SRA ID 205691
Dear The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Solicitors Bradley Bloom SRA ID 259161 and Allan Hooper SRA ID 205691
Can you confirm how many complaints you have recieved relating to this
council's London solicitors both Bradley Bloom and Allan Hooper.
Can you confirm how and why a solicitors 'practice' can claim not to have
a contract for £40,000 with a local authority when a contract does exist
for debt recovery services according the solicitors.
How can they give out false information via their client.
This contract can only have been through their partnership that has the
same name they use as a trading name for their company J E Baring Ltd and
former company J E Baring & Co Ltd, because the latter was dissolved 29
March 2016 and the current company was not incorporated on Companies House
8 August 2019 and not regulated by SRA until 14 January 2020.
Why are the local authority and these solicitors giving out conflicting
and deliberately confusing information to hide which legal entity they are
acting through.
How is it possible for this partnership that the council has a contract
with for legal services to be signing in a company trading name, letters
and court documentation etc when this company was either not in existence
or not regulated by SRA on those dates.
Since when have these company director solicitors been authorised to carry
out bankruptcy work against individuals and not a company, under their
solicitors company?
The Law Society website shows that only Insolvency and restricting -
business can be carried out by solicitors Allan Hooper and Bradley Bloom
whose registered partnership address is First Floor, 63-66 Hatton
Garden,London.(DX151 LONDON)
Their company registered address is 1st Floor, 63-66 Hatton Garden,
London, and their email address [6][email address] for this company
appears on their website. (Notice the subtle change in spelling of the
first line of their address changed from First Floor to 1st Floor.)
Are the directors allowed to send out documentation on headed paper with J
E Baring & Co solicitors with their partnership address 'First Floor' with
their company email address and LDE 151 Chancery Lane (not DX151 LONDON)
and yet sign as a company trading name 'J E Baring & Co' with their
company name 'J E Baring Ltd' trading as J E Baring & Co (Registered in
England No. 1214662) Authorised and Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation
Authority No. 666652 Registered Office: FIRST FLOOR, (which is their
registered partnership address not their registered company address)
Directors: A Hooper, B Bloom and J Bending, at the bottom.
Are these solicitors allowed to mix and match their legal entities to
conceal who has really been instructed by their client and for what
purpose and if they are actually officially authorised in the correct
capacity to carry out certain work, such as bankruptcy.
Surely, both solicitors and councils who are accessing and processing
personal data of living individuals must be both transparent and
accountable and not deceptive in their actions or can they simply swop and
change their lawful basis to suit their mutual agenda, and without
informing their purported council "customer".
Are either Bradley Bloom or Allan Hooper allowed to share personal data
with former clients or must they be currently instructed?
MBC Legal Fees Contract - J E Baring & Co CA29830
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Yours faithfully,
Ed Boyce
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