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to my attention that Mr Boyce claimed membership of the The Law Society Family Panel was inaccurate as this body has been replaced by the Family Law Accreditation Scheme and it was unclear whether he had that endorsement.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.