Two jailed for £50m mortgage fraud 15 Jun 2011 | 19:00 A chartered surveyor and property investor have been jailed for a total of 20 years after admitting their role in a huge £50m commercial mortgage fraud. Ian McGarry, a former chartered surveyor and director at Dunlop Haywards Lorenz, from Hertfordshire, and Saghir Ahmed […]
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Former legal executive jailed for mortgage fraud – Bedfordshire A former legal executive has been jailed for five years for her part in a £1.25 million mortgage fraud. Humaira Shah submitted false mortgage applications to numerous lenders, attempting to defraud them out of nearly £3 million. By the time the fraud came to light, £1.25 […]
Three acquitted in mortgage fraud trial Wednesday 15 June 2011 The jury in the trial of an alleged £49 million mortgage fraud has acquitted three defendants – Hardeep Sodhi of Patwa Solicitors in Birmingham, Simon Lawrence of Darlingtons Solicitors in North London and Mark Knights of Mace & Jones in Manchester. However, the jury was […]
Judicial Review is an essential process of Administrative Law. Judicial Review is where an applicant (or Claimant) asks the Administrative Court (a division of the High Court) to rule on the legality or reasonableness of a decision by a public body. Judicial Review is a distinctive feature of English law and rarely seen in other […]
What is public law? Public law is the law relating to the exercise of power by public bodies. It is a specialised area of the law. Almost everybody is affected by public law, whether or not they are aware of it. What are public bodies? There are many public bodies of various kinds. Public bodies make […]
