Bindmans solicitor Jude Lanchin is accused of perverting the course of justice by submitting a false witness statement and breaching litigation privilege in order link former client to civil proceedings in a bid to mislead Bristol County Court
Financial Fraudster News Investigations has identified Jude Lanchin (left) a solicitor currently employed by Bindmans LLP and who acts as the media face for the firm has been accused of filing a fraudulent witness statement to pervert the course of justice amid claims of an attempt to cover up alleged negligence by the firm named after Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC and readily known as a human rights firm.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations can reveal that Bindmans unsuccessfully represented a businessman [who will remain unnamed] linked to the State of Libya in a criminal case brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions then led by Labour leader Sir Kier Starmar QC which resulted in a conviction that now appears to be a miscarriage of justice following 80,000 documents now in the hands of the state when the documents including financial and documentary evidence were sent to the businessman and later seized after being held in a secure part of the prison while detained at HMP Wayland.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations have been told from sources close to the proceedings that the Businessman property belonging to businessman was requested from Bindmans on his release which contained confidential information he was working on for clients who he had promised give on release in March 2019, it appears that requests were made by email to release the property and were not responded to by Bindmans, it now appears that the third parties patience wore thin with the businessman who they thought was initially lying and have now brought a claim against Bindmans for professional negligence.
It appears that a second client of the businessman on hearing the conduct of Bindmans has brought a claim. In defence of the mounting claims Ms Lanchin filed a witness statement that changed the contact date of the email requests by the businessman by several months and also included the bogus sentencing remarks of the then criminal trial judge in the earlier criminal in which the Business maintains his innocence in an attempt to mislead Bristol County Court in a case in which the businessman is not even a party.
Bindmans has relied on alleged fraudulent witness statement of Ms Lanchin in Application to strike the claims that have been brought against the firm.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations has contacted the Solicitors Regulation Authority in order to establish the potential penalties for rogue lawyers who wilfully flout the its code of conduct a SRA source stated:
"The first question requires us to ascertain what the individual genuinely knew or believed at the time. The reasonableness of their belief or knowledge is relevant to us determining whether it is genuinely held, but there is no additional requirement that it must be objectively reasonable.
Once we have determined the individual's state of mind, we then consider their conduct in light of it. The test is to objectively judge if they acted dishonestly by the standards of ordinary, decent people. There is no additional requirement that they have to appreciate that what they have done was dishonest. This second test means that while a person's state of mind is relevant, they cannot escape a finding of dishonesty based on a warped personal belief they were hones, the SRA is also concerned with misleading a court, tribunal, a regulator and will rely on (Solicitors Regulation Authority v Spence [2012] EWHC 2977 (Admin)) as case law in many instances."
Financial Fraudster News Investigations will update readers on the outcome of proceedings that are listed at Bristol County Court to start by remote hearing on 2 February 2021.
Bindmans LLP has declined to comment on this article.
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