{"id":1469,"date":"2010-03-13T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2010-03-13T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:28:22","slug":"claims-firm-shut-down-by-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Claims firm shut down by regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img size-thumbnail wp-image-1471 alignleft\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Cartel-Client-Review-offers-to-deal-with-credit-card-debts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Cartel-Client-Review-offers-to-deal-with-credit-card-debts-150x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Cartel Client Review - offers to deal with credit card debts<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Solicitors&#8217; Regulation Authority (SRA) has closed down the Manchester office of<strong> Consumer Credit Litigation Solicitors <\/strong>(CCLS) which advised the claims firm <strong>Cartel Client Review<\/strong>, because of &#8220;suspected dishonesty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>CCLS worked almost exclusively for Cartel Client Review.  CCLS which was run by just one solicitor, Richard Burley.<br \/>\nUntil mid-February the legal firm had had about 100 staff but most had walked out after being left unpaid.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said the law firm had &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; of customers files, &#8220;which just seem to have been put in boxes&#8221;. Another firm has been appointed to take over the files. Customers of CCLS would receive letters asking them what they wanted to do with their files.<\/p>\n<p>Cartel Client Review specialises in trying to challenge the enforceability of debts, such as credit cards and personal loans, as well as claiming for the refund of mis-sold financial policies such as payment protection insurance. Customers are asked to pay a fee of \u00a3495 which will be refunded if their claim is not successful.<\/p>\n<p>Cartel Client Review is the subject of a separate Ministry of Justice investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartel Client Review &#8211; offers to deal with credit card debts The Solicitors&#8217; Regulation Authority (SRA) has closed down the Manchester office of Consumer Credit Litigation Solicitors (CCLS) which advised the claims firm Cartel Client Review, because of &#8220;suspected dishonesty&#8221;. CCLS worked almost exclusively for Cartel Client Review. CCLS which was run by just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}