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Alsters Kelley Solicitors do not give a toss as to the welfare of children or indeed parents that they represent, they are so arrogant and use to dipping the legal aid fund they forget professional ethics, also their attention to detail is crap (a monkey on drugs could do better along as he can spit social services buzz words). They must piss themselves laughing at their Christmas office party that legal-aid exists?.

My solicitor told me:
"From his point of view there only one thing worse than dealing with a good lawyer - dealing with a shit one".
And do you what he was right - Alsters Kelley offices smells like a toilet, and the head of their Family dept. has got to be the doziest S*** H*** I have ever met.

Father

An private shared parenting agreement set by both parents in the interests of the children was completely ignored

These Solicitors had not forwarded this important new information to the Cafcass officer assigned to our case/evident in her report submitted to the court at Black----some weeks later. [November - -th 2003]

Constant reminders of the arrangements below were send and confirmed as received by my solicitors from Cooper Nimmo, but were never acted upon?

Suspiciously, my ex-partners solicitors 'Cooper Nimmo' totally ignored this significantly important document?

The reason I have contacted you is to add to your list of complaints about Tanner and Taylor.

My wife and I are currently getting divorced and for the sake of the children are trying to do this in a fair and dignified way. We have resolved most of the issues we had but my ex was not sure about one or two minor things.

My wife went to Tanner and Taylor in order to have some things explained and to make sure that our agreements were upheld. A solicitor as taken over and is now working to her own agenda. She is acting in a bullying and pushy way and is assuming that she has a remit to hire services on my behalf. She has also taken to insulting me in her letters to me and is acting in what I can only describe as worst practice.

Her communications are very disjointed and the grammar non existent making her letters difficult to comprehend. I have seen good quality service and communications as a member of my family is also going through a divorce.

I have reminded the solicitor concerned that she has signed up to the Resolve code of practice especially when dealing with people who are representing themselves. Even though I can not afford the services of a solicitor She keeps insisting that I am not cleaver enough to represent myself and should seek the services of one of her kind. This way they can keep sending letters back and forth to each other at my expense.

I noticed your web page doing a search. If there was one solicitors practice that epitomises what you are saying is Berry & Berry. I was lucky, for my sons sake, to win residency. However they advised my ex wife to withhold contact and created numerous spurious reasons to avoid contact

(Father)

Well with a third person with good cause for concern over Cooper Nimmo's ethics, I would certainly like to do something to tarnish their name. If there is anything I can add to your site, or can write somewhere, or even protest outside, then that would suit me.

The below Solicitors wrote a letter to my partners son's school Headmaster inviting him to take sides - thus breaking the law under the Children's Act 1989 when both parents in question have equal Parental Responsibility for their child and can delegate collection from school to whom they see fit during their outlined Contact Order time. This Solicitor also helped whittle down Contact Order time to less than the minimum standard suggested.

These Solicitors agreed to represent me for a final hearing for the usual extorionate costs, but only “if I dropped the serious allegations of my ex-partners Cannabis misuse (even though I witnessed my daughter at 18months walking through my home saying "da da" showing me a really big lump of this drug in her hand!!).

I had already paid these solicitors a considerable amount of money but they said if I didn’t remove the drugs allegations they would not be prepared to represent me?

So I decided to represent myself as I had previously done in my case even though the court kept insisting “to get a lawyer" I had sat down and studied the children act, Interpretation act 1978/1989 ECT etc just to give myself a little bit of knowledge of family court proceedings

On final hearing day in the Family law court, I was met by the Cafcass officer and then I was approached by a rather posh chap who introduced himself as the mothers’ legal aid barrister!! [The Opposition]

During proceedings her barrister tried to ridicule me in court because I had only learned Family Law on the internet, even though I had correctly submitted case laws and history all with court reference numbers and dates.

But I said to the three judges hearing the case that is was factual law and factual case studies I had submitted your worships but yet the mother’s barrister here seems to be implying that I have submitted "Fiction" and not fact to your worships?? And it worked

I now have my daughter 2 days per week and P.R.O AND CONTACT Orders in place, still trying to get this elusive other order though "Joint Residence" it seems slippier than Lord Lucan for some reason.

The opposing barrister was clearly livid about the result but as I said to the judges the only winner today is not in this court, she is sitting at home being looked after.

My daughter is the only winner because she has now got both her parents in her life at 3yrs old.

This is just a quick note to say that I read your web site with great interest this weekend. I have been going through a separation over the last 7 months (which is due to my ex-partner having an affair with a guy from work.) I have been very unfortunate to have to deal with a solicitors in Blackpool called Cooper Nimmo.

This practice I have found very unprofessional, rude and in all instances just plain rubbish.

They have used delaying tactics, rarely replied to letters, when there is a reply answering one of maybe eight questions posed they never had my children's best interests as any part of their agenda. Their accusations have been ludicrous, unsubstantiated and down right pathetic.

I see that another gent on your site has been through a similar ordeal. This email is more than anything to confirm that his thoughts on this practice are spot on.

If there is any way in which they could be highlighted to a governing board then I would be more than happy to voice my concerns/experiences.

My ex-wife and her solicitors did not make a full disclosure about her bank accounts in the Financial Hearings during our recent divorce. This issue was raised in statements for the FDA and the FDR appointments, with evidence of bank statements and account numbers not disclosed, but no suitable responses were provided.

My ex-wife was represented by a solicitor of Darlington &Parkinson , and was paid for by legal aid. However the firm dragged the case out for an excessive amount of time and accrued large fees accordingly, which will be paid for by charges offset against the former matrimonial home. Although Darlington & Parkinson has written several letters confirming that they would keep to the Court Schedules, they, they did not do this and delayed the proceedings several times.

This resulted in me accruing Lawyers Bills of over £30,000 for legal services on my side alone, which I could not continue to afford, and subsequently was forced to withdraw my application to see my Children for overnight visits. In addition my ex-wife's solicitors, Darlington & Parkinson would also have accrued fees of tens of thousands of pounds on their side.

Darlington and Parkinson also delayed the agreement of a another order between myself and my ex-wife, by demanding that I pay over £1000 towards my ex-wife's legal fees, although I was responsible foraying my own lawyers for their services, and my wife was on legal aid.

My Application for Access to see the Children was dragged out for two years from Feb 2001- Dec 2003 before I was allowed any Contact at all. I was originally allowed Supervised Contact for three months which was eventually changed to Sunday Visits between 10-6pm. My ex-wife and her solicitors refused to allow me to be be granted overnight visits unless I submitted a hair follicle test to the Courts.

I was forced to withdraw my application as the Case cost me about £24,000 legal fees, which I could no longer afford to maintain. The Children have been badly damaged by the situation, and my youngest Child (aged 8) is being labelled as autistic by his school because he is badly behind in his development. For example he is being dis-applied from sitting his SAT exams this year, and is on a special needs program at school. His test results are also in the first/bottom percentile for his age group.

Divorce Application

The Decree Nisi and Divorce were also dragged out for two and a half years although this solicitor sent out letters that the matter would be progressed in December 2002 and August 2003, she ignored the issue until October 2003, until after the Children's Act and Financial Hearings

I also feel that they should be investigated for legal harassment as the Divorce and Court Proceeding are now complete, but they are still pestering me to pay monies towards my ex-wife's legal fees, even though I had to pay £35,000 towards my own solicitors.

In addition to the above, I believe these solicitors failed to keep to the SFLA policies of adopting a constructive and non-confrontational approach as a way of resolving differences, or advise, negotiate and conduct matters so as to help settle differences as quickly as possible and reach agreement.

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