Goughs legal beagle

Legal Beagle enforces an honest online CV after EIGHT YEARS

Mr Peter Boyce of Goughs of Chippenham represented my former wife in our divorce April 2002 – June 2004.

In 2002 he displayed this web page and because of the adversarial nature of the divorce that I was experiencing and the contradiction to his advertised persona, I contacted The Solicitors Family Law Association (Resolution) and questioned his competence to be an Accredited Mediator. Resolution responded by telling me that they wouldn’t intervene in an ongoing case and to contact them at the end of the process. This I  did in November 2004 only to discover that he wasn’t an Accredited Mediator and this was a false claim. I then discovered over a period of four years that the entire page was a false claim and none of his claimed credentials and qualifications were true.

Resolution refused to take any action and continue to this day to endorse Mr Boyce, despite being shown evidence of more serious allegations of professional negligence.
The Code of Practice for Resolution relies upon the honesty and integrity of its members, yet with incontrovertible evidence as to his lack of honesty and integrity in the form of falsified CV online for OVER TWO YEARS and the more serious allegations of mis-directing the court, Resolution first for Family seem impotent in the face of commercial interests. The fact that their Code of Practice was totally disregarded by Mr Boyce has never been investigated by Resolution as they have no quality system in place for such an investigation

In August 2008 it was brought to my attention that Mr Boyce claimed membership of the The Law Society Family Panel was inaccurate as this body has been replaced by the Family Law Accreditation Scheme and it was unclear whether he had that endorsement. I contacted Mr Davis the senior partner at Goughs and brought this inaccuracy to his attention, well the good news is, that this false claim has now been removed.
That only took me seven months which is an improvement on the two years it took me to initially clean up the false claims by Mr Boyce.
Self appointed “ACCREDITED” member of the family panel which was amended to read former member of the UK college of Family mediators( his subscription lapsed in 2001 yet he claimed membership until 2008)

Is it only me that finds it quite bizzare that the legal profession has such a lack luster attitude to professional standards.

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Judge hops bench

Broward Circuit Court Judge Ian Richards jumped over his bench to help a female witness who was being attacked by the man she had testified against.

Good man!!!! how many British judges would be running for the door?

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Naming and Shaming

On November 17th 2008 I named and shamed a solicitor because I believe that it is in the public interest to know how professional standards are being defined for divorce solicitors. This blog is only questioning the standards of solicitors in divorce.
Mr Peter Boyce, a divorce solicitor, was quite happy to falsely represented himself online for two years and he has received no sanction from the regulatory authorities whatsoever.
I am alleging that Mr Boyce also mis directed a Caffcass Officer and a divorce court and was complicit in achieving a financial settlement under false premise, I have good evidence to back up these allegation, however despite the fact that his integrity is severely questioned by his false representation, I cannot find a place where this evidence can be properly tested and Mr Boyce is dealt with as would be any other professional who acted in such a manner, if my allegations are proved to be true.

I have slightly amended the original post, as on first publication I didnt make it clear that when talking about mis direction of the court and concealment of funds, that was my opinion, not a proven fact as yet. The false representation however, is a fact and my evidence is uncontested by Goughs and explained as an oversight!!. The original post also noted

“Despite all the previous problems with his inaccurate online CV, his current webpage is displaying yet another  inaccuracy and has been doing so since August of this year. The Law Society Family Panel has been replaced by the Family Law Accreditation Scheme which is run by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. It is not clear whether Mr Boyce has applied or has been accepted for membership of the accreditation  scheme, yet he still claims membership of the  Family Panel. This is despite my alerting both the Solicitors Regulation Authority,  and Mr Peter Boyce and Mr Nick Davis the senior partner at Goughs Of Chippenham, of this inaccurate claim.”
I know it’s nit picking but he is still inaccurately describing himself.

I am not here to slander or diminish all professionals, but I believe in high professional standards and adhereance to codes of practice and in my case, I have evidence to prove that these standards have not been met, and more alarmingly, there seems to be little concern from the professionals, as he wasnt my solicitor. I am not a bad looser, I just expect a level playing feild.

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A big thank you to Wikivorce

The first post on Wikivorce was June of this year, you can see from the Stats the traffic took off from that point, not to mention all the great advice

My Blog on Wikivorce has received 2950 hits in the same period. The thread on Fathers for Justice has received 8679 hits and the thread on Resolution has received 3327 hits, 400 of which were from today!!

I have received many emails of support and I am now getting honest advise from professionals. Thank you wiki, without you, these bastards would have got away with their corrupt practices. Now the public know all about Mr Boyce and his lies, Goughs of Chippenham and a meaningless Code of practice by Resolution first in family law

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Naming and Shaming a corrupt solictior

When I started this blog I had faith in the British Legal system, after four years I have discovered that a completely different set of standards and LAWS apply to our legal profession. This is a corruption of our legal process as solicitors and the regulatory authorities have awarded themselves a different set standards and laws that the rest of us don’t benefit from.

I have religiously followed the complaints procedures of all the regulatory authorities and have met with indifference and a stonewall of denial from all of them, but the fact remains that a practising solicitor LIED about all his qualifications for over two years and even wrote two letters to me in which he referenced his false qualifications. As well as falsely representing himself in my opinion he misdirected a court, a Cafcass Officer and concealed funds amounting to £35,000 from the courts, but I cant find a court to test my evidence

I feel that it is in the public interest to know the name of this solicitor and the firm that he works for. Mr Balh Blah is in fact Mr Peter Boyce of Goughs of Chippenham.

Despite all the previous problems with his inaccurate online CV, his current webpage is displaying yet another  inaccuracy and has been doing so since August of this year. The Law Society Family Panel has been replaced by the Family Law Accreditation Scheme which is run by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. It is not clear whether Mr Boyce has applied or has been accepted for membership of the accreditation  scheme, yet he still claims membership of the  Family Panel. This is despite my alerting both the Solicitors Regulation Authority,  and Mr Peter Boyce and Mr Nick Davis the senior partner at Goughs Of Chippenham, of this inaccurate claim.

This warning is to any potential client, to think very carefully about employing the services of a legal firm that in my opinion concealed evidence from a Law Society investigation and were complicit in mis directing  a divorce court as well as having a blatant disregard for Resolutions Code of Practice, a legal firm that is fully supportive of one of their partners who BLATANTLY falsely represents himself for two years.

You have been warned.

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A National Minimum POST

The output from this blog has been at low ebb over recent weeks as Arnie’s father is approaching his last days in this realm. This has necessitated frequent journeys up and down the M5, and this is an ongoing situation for  as long as his very full and successful life dictates.

I had some good news yesterday that under normal circumstances  would have had Arnie bouncing around hyperspace. The news is, Resolution, after four years, six months and seven days, have actually responded in a positive and constructive manner.

I have accepted their offer, but I do feel that a straight forward issue, such as blatant false representation should have been dealt with by all the regulatory authorities in a swift manner, with a minimum financial sanction of at least £15,000, an equivalent that a non legal commercial operation could expect for  breaching trading standards in such a blatant and wilful fashion.

Their offer, is the FIRST response with regards my complaint since June 2003. If it takes this long and this much effort to achieve an INVESTIGATION into a straight forward complaint, what confidence can anybody have that more serious, more subjective complaints have any hope of serious investigation or consideration?
The bed rock of any quality system, and Resolution’s Code of Practice Is a quality system for solicitors in divorce, is the effectiveness of the complaints procedure. An empty complaints file is symptomatic of a poorly enforced quality standard, and this argument seems to have had a resonance throughout the legal profession and  people in divorce.

Now that the Party Conference season is over, the cabinet settled and the economic meltdown is in the wait and see mode, I shall resume my attempts to get the Law Society and the LCS to do their jobs properly by harassing the ministers and shadow ministers responsible.
Arnie cannot over state the importance of professional standards in making divorce a less acrimonious and a less adversarial process. Standards that also need to be applied to expert witness, social workers, the courts and Cafcass in both public and private  law cases.

Arnie has long since called for a suspension of dare devil tactics from Fathers 4 Justice and is also calling on our politicians to suspend the secret courts, so as these experts and professionals once again can be properly scrutinised and held accountable and thus ensuring professional standards are once again paramount.

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Fathers 4 Justice a complete buggers muddle?

Here I go again on my own…….  Arnie with his limited intellect will do his best to make sense of all this.

• I made the Captain Pugwash video out of frustration and I was totally unaware that the F4J leadership was imploding in a power struggle.

• I have never been a member of Fathers 4 Justice…… EVER!! I don’t know one person who has ever been a member.

• I had one email exchange with Matt O Connor in 2003. I was complaining about his tactics. The particular tactics that I was annoyed about were: A Legal firm in Bristol were being targeted by flooding their phone lines, fax lines and e mail with abusive comments. Matt O Connor/a team member propagated my hotmail address to some other people who added me as a contact on MSN and then generally questioned my sexuality, physical strength and were really quite abusive before I blocked them.

• Matt O Connor did reply and was unrepentant but I didn’t raise the issue of the brown skirts.

• In 2004 a judge who was particularly pissed off with F4J threw out cafcass’s recommendation for shared residence and told me he didn’t agree with pressure groups like F4J and implied  I was a member and split up my children. That has been my children’s reality from  the ages of 13 & 10.
  Not all F4J fault and there were other factors at play(Corrupt Legal Firm with a name similar to my blog) but you certainly were not helpful to me or my family.

That is the history, top and bottom of it. I fully appreciate that we all have different methods of achieving the same goal and no man has the monopoly on solutions.  I have always had an interest in the movement from its conception. I am a father of two children and I want justice, so I am a member of Fathers4justice, de facto, DEAL with IT!
I reported here that from the ashes a new group had formed and that I had joined the forum.
Last night I removed all my postings because nothing has changed.  Apparently my blog is comprised of “ inconsistent ramblings”  and a public meltdown by Matt O Connor is supposedly addressed to me. Personally if I were Matt I would claim identity theft/excessive alcohol/psychiatric issues and get it removed ASAP.

The paranoia that has characterised the F4J leadership has progressively strangled the movement and splintered it into a thousand  paranoid pieces and has hatched this bizarre re launch.

Since the Captain Pugwash video I have had a few e mail contacts from genuine members of Fathers4justice and without exception they have been nice blokes and we have exchanged views like adults.
I know that quite a few F4J members have joined the wikivorce community as result of my postings, I also know quite a few other blogs exist as result of my actions. I also know that in a community of 13,000 members my threads are some of the most read in the entire forum, 6000 views on the Fathers4Justice thread, so they may well be inconsistent ramblings to you Sir, but that is not the view of many reasonable people. Virtually nobody has sought to defend F4J and all I was asking for was a suspension of dare devil tactics for the ADULT reasons that I explained at the start of thread, which incidental has still not been addressed by ANY SENIOR MEMBER of fathers 4 justice, despite all the posturing in the various media portals.

Forums: In the wikivorce community I have mounted a serious attack on a professional organisation of over 5000 solicitors(RESOLUTION) with the intention of getting professional standards to actually mean something. The owner of wikivorce gets his income from a partnership with the legal profession, and at no point have any of my postings been removed, that gentlemen is a PROPERLY moderated forum.
The ridiculous attitude that has surrounded F4J forums 2003 -2008 is 99.9% of the problems that you now face; if you stifle debate, then you become elitist and detached from reality and that is what you have become and that is NOT the fault of just one man.
My advice to you all, is read Matt O Connors letter and think of the part you played in that meltdown rather than blaming the world and his wife and more specifically Arnie.

Fathers4 justice as its founder correctly identifies is an idea, and thus he will always be an honorary member of that idea. I dare say he will fight to defend his legacy until a coherent voice replaces it, but I hope that he realise when the correct time has come to give his batman suit to his children and start acting in a more dignified manner as the elder statesman of fathers4justice movement.

The media has changed and protest groups have become open source, so you all best come to terms with that FACT and start being a little more inclusive.

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Gotcha……. dysfunctional complaints procedures

Resolution supporting corruption in family law.

For those of you that haven’t been following this story, a quick chronology:

In June of 2003 I first complained in this e mail about the behaviour of Mr Blah Blah. I was told that until all legal proceedings had finished no action could be taken. Mr Blah Blah replied to that same e mail with this gem.

Because of a former life, I know quite a lot about complaints procedures, that was before I had a SFLA(Resolution) divorce inflicted upon my family.
I was part of a junior management team that implemented BS5750 at a ready meals producer employing around 1,000 people, I also managed at varying levels in the Dairy, Poultry and Gift Food Industries, so I have a great deal of experience of complaints procedures and how they should be operated, as well as being able to recognising a quality standard when I see one.
They are not just words the Code of Practice is quality standard with no auditing of members either internally or externally and a virtually non existent complaints procedure.

I respected the SFLA(Resolutions) wishes and waited until March 2004 when proceedings had finalised.
I sent many e mails but specifically:   (DRAG IMAGES TO VIEW)
16/03/04 “I am complaining about one of your accredited mediators Mr Blah Blah”
02/04/04 “Mr Blah Blah ACCREDITED by yourselves as a family mediator
06/05/04 “I have a big problem with one of your accredited mediators”
07/10/04 “I wish to complain about Mr Blah Blah of the Telly Tubbies he is an SFLA Accredited Mediator”
10/11/04 “I am still confused as to what an accredited mediator actually represents”
15/11/04 And now the unbelievable HERE HERE HERE and most recently HERE

SFLA(Resolution) Complaints leaflet

Bearing in mind that the biggest part of me wanted to move on and forget this whole nasty process and that in 2005 sometime I had what I call an emotional breakdown, largely inspired by the fact that a district Judge had separated my children, fined ME £2000 for abuse of process for trying to keep them together, and in actual fact I was the only one being honest about my children and finance. Then the Law Society and Resolution both found that wilful false representation for two years was an “oversight”, and refused to even consider the more serious allegations. The fact that Mr Blah Blah had totally disregarded the SFLA(Resolutions) Code of Practice became an irrelevance to Resolution as their primary concern had become covering for their own negligence.

Mr Blah Blahs webpage 2002 -2004 also stated he was a member of the UK College of Family mediators. This e mail shows that was a lie, he also claimed to be a member of the Law Society’s Family Panel and this exert from the LCS investigation of 2008 shows that was also a lie, it also raises the question why the Law Society investigation in 2004 didn’t pick up this false claim, or did they?

The claimed Degree is still not clarified despite asking the LCS at least 4 times and Mr Twinky Winkey(senior Partner)  at Telly Tubbies at least 10 times, you can draw your own conclusions, but for my money THE WHOLE PAGE WAS A LIE

That’s the end of the quick chronology and this is the current state of affairs:

This phone conversation with the Director of Standards at Resolution on the 05/08/08 and is posted with Jackie Jackson permission.
So in summary, in June of 2003 I first questioned the competence of a legal professional and after four years and two months and however many days, and after exhausting the complaints procedures for the SFLA(Resolution) ,The Law Society and the LCS, I still don’t know if his claimed degree was an aspiration or a reality.
In March of 2007 his NEW webpage was advertising him as an Accredited Member of the Law Society Family Panel as well as still claiming that he was a member of the UK College of Family Mediators, the Accredited claim  and the UK College claim were swiftly removed when I pointed it out in August 2007, how long this false representation had been going on is anybodies guess.

It is also important to re state that the false representation is only a SMALL part of my complaint, and the more serious allegations, I am prevented from even disclosing the information to the complaints authorities as the evidence is contained in Cafcass Reports, Judges Transcript and  Court Statements. I believe that this solicitor was in breach of his responsibilities under the proceeds of crime act and most certainly misdirected a CAFCASS OFFICER and a COURT OF LAW, but I am gagged.

That in my mind equates to dysfunctional complaints procedure and shades of corruption in the process, and I say that on the basis of what I do know, and that is, all three accept that a complete and systematic false representation by a solicitor, for two years or more, who even had the cheek to seek endorsement from that false representation and to pass it off as an oversight, is acceptable behaviour, and thus render the question of the alleged more serious breaches of law unchallenged and unexamined.

Jackie Jackson who is the pinnacle of Resolution’s complaints procedure accepts fully that it is disgraceful behaviour and continues to endorse Mr Blah Blah with lame excuses for her poor performance. Essentially membership of Resolution is based upon the ability to pay and adherence to the Code of Practice is very much secondary and with such a POOR complaints procedure it renders the ideals of the organisation virtually meaningless. There has been no contact from Resolution since my request in the posted phone conversation.

He is still a member of the Law Society’s Family Panel actively involved in child custody policy.

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Fathers 4 justice

You all know the story so far, and Arnie is heartened to discover that from the many portals that he plays in, that there are MANY fathers who want some kind of Justice, who have similar opinions to his. We don’t threaten or bully people into our way of thinking, we silently watch with dismay.

Fathers 4 Justice are iconic and Buckingham Palace, Matt O Connor, Jolly Stainsby and condoms full of purple flower are absolutely ICONIC. It has brought the issue of CHILDREN in Divorce to the centre stage.

Arnie recognises and applauds  your commitment, but Arnie also knows that there needs to be effective chains of command. collective responsibility and such things as progression and seizing the initiative, which hasn’t been a feature of Fathers 4 Justice on many occasions.
Arnie is also wise enough to know that he does not have a monopoly on the right solutions, he just wants his voice heard as do the rest of the silent majority.

From the Family Lore thread it appears that Mark Harris has launched a solution and although it is branded as Nu Labour Fathers 4 Justice, as far as Arnie is concerned this is Fathers 4 Justice and he also thinks that Mr Whippy can be successfully challenged in a court of law if Mr Whippy wishes to waste a shit load of money.
Fathers 4 Justice now have an open forum and Arnie has applied for membership, he is a bit disappointed that comments on the Blog are HIDDEN/disabled, but heartened to see that someone on the IT side of Fathers 4 Justice GETS IT. WORDPRESS or Blogger Rule OK!!!! …………OPEN SOURCE/WIKI is the next lesson you all need to learn.

Nick Langford, Political & Research Co-Ordinator for Fathers 4 Justice, seems to be lost for words, unless talking to the elites to further his career, It was my thread after all.  Family Lore pinched it from Divorce Survivor, who had been supporting me on Wikivorce. The Wikivorce thread had previously been emailed to Matt O’Connor Nadine Taylor and Nick Langford, as was Captain Pugwash, but where did they choose to respond but THE SUN newspaper and Family LORE.

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Nick Langford has made another post on Family Lore and he thinks that Arnie is damaged or obsessed but he has still failed to answer what has happening to the significant CASH FLOW that Fathers4 justice has at its disposal. I guess that’s what he means by damaged or obsessed.

Arnie has one question for you all to ponder, of the Fathers 4 Justice membership where do you think the majority would be most likely to get their information, prior to the current thread on family lore (inspired by Arnie   )and how this squares with the official statement on Family Lore(A VERY POPULAR BLOG) “and no publicity has been sought for it”?????!!!……… disingenuous attention seekers is Arnies view.

*********Updated Sunday 14 Sept *********

Just recieved an e mail related to the finance of F4J from someone who claims to be an “insider” and I need to seek legal advice before propigating, quite possibly a setup, will keep you posted,

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Its a re launch………

Whilst reading Family Lore I stumbled across one of the ruling elite at Fathers 4 Justice  announcing, with LOADS of spin, its a relaunch. (in comments)
When will this group start acting with some honesty and integrity, how about letting the membership know what is going on rather than posturing on Family Lore or winding up the SUN Newspaper.

As part of the relaunch how about a 12 month suspension of dare devil tactics and commercial attacks and by this start RESPECTING the sacrifice that your membership have made, whilst you lot became as corrupt as the corrupt elites you were supposed to be fighting. We don’t need spin, we need a UNITED front from ALL the groups on a common agenda, and together we can get the secret COURTS OPENED!
Until you bring on board the MAINSTREAM nothing will change, in fact you just make things worse.

Arnie is bowled over by the number of Fathers4Justice members who have emailed him and offered  both support and agreement, and Arnie thought it was only him who felt like this.
This is a single issue blog about a corrupt legal firm. I am entirely on my own and  just stating my opinion, yet i am receiving hits and support at a level I would never have imagined.

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