Financial Fraudster News Investigation Team revealed that Steyn a barrister and newly appointed High Court judge is accused of lying in one of her first High Court judgments by the company she has named in one of her judgments on 10 January 2020.
Background
The Judicial Appointments Commission made recommendations for appointment in June 2019 which resulted in the appointment of Karen Steyn.
The non-Oxbridge appointment was Karen Steyn QC of 11KBW. Born in South Africa and brought up in Kent, where she attended local state schools, she studied history at Liverpool University.
Now identified as the Honourable Mrs Justice Steyn DBE Called to the Bar in 1995, the 48-year-old’s practice covered a range of public law, human rights, public international and information law. She was appointed a QC in 2014 and deputy High Court judge in 2016.
Assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division from 1 October, she replaces the retiring Mr Justice King.
Jacob Friedlander of Community Trust Holdings Trustees (BVI) a partner of Nathan Paralegals and Company LLP incorporated in December 2019 stated: "for the record are not a firm of solicitor or pretend to be and whose business model is to signpost low income individuals and families and prisoners and in many cases finance direct access legal representation and or solicitors for those not eligible to legal aid, and when often act only as a bridge between the litigant and the legal representative under a power of attorney relationship to expedite matters at the request of our clients".
Friedlander stated “When we read the Steyn’s judgment which was embellished with a series of fraudulent misrepresentations firstly making reference that we are posing as solicitors and then stating that a convicted fraudster who was the subject of ‘numerous extant general civil restraint orders’ was linked to Nathan Paralegals and Company LLP as part of this company.”
Friedlander continued “We are seemingly living in a Trumpian age where words don’t seem to matter this has now seeped into some judicial circles. But they do and we will call it out as it occurs especially from lazy judges who follow a false narrative based on lies, because a lie is repeated over and over it does not make true. The convicted prisoner who is mentioned in Steyn’s judgment was employed and paid by the Secretary of State for Justice between 2014 and 2018 in various penal establishments whilst serving a prison sentence as a McKenzie Friend to over 600 plus inmates assisting with adjudications, complaints, appeals, debt management issues all written in his own hand and whilst being the subject of general civil restraint orders known to the Secretary of State for Justice, but we find Steyn lazily repeating a mantra that does not even make sense to the trained mind and would raise the question why a person would bring cases in prisoner’s names… maybe our judiciary aren’t so clever as they think.”
Financial Fraudster News Investigation Team checked the statements made by Steyn in the relevant part of her order that.
“I note that the claim form states that the Claimant’s representatives are “Nathan Paralegals and Company LLP”. This firm does not appear to be listed as regulated law firm on the Solicitors Regulation Authority, website.
"There is reason to think that this claim may be an abuse of process as it bears some of the hallmarks of the involvement of the convicted fraudster who is subject to a number of extant General Civil Restraint Orders and who has previously sought to circumvent those orders by bringing litigation in the names of prisoners giving contact details for, amongst others, Nathan Paralegals. However, in view of the decision that have made, do not need to consider that possibility further.”
Financial Fraudster News Investigation Team can reveal a number of fraudulent misrepresentations from our fact check:
Fraudulent misrepresentation fact check 1
Having checked the Ministry of Justice list for civil restraint orders it showed that at the date of the order the unnamed convicted fraudster did not have or was subject to “a number of extant General Civil Restraint Orders” there was only one entry.
Fraudulent misrepresentation fact check 2
The entry appears to be made by the Court Appeal which concerned a company not a prisoner.
Financial Fraudster News raison d'être is to expose fraud where it raises its ugly head and in the case of a judge it is simply unacceptable
But she lied in a judgment which links an innocent company to those fraudulent findings without regard to the truth.
A Nathan Paralegals and Company spokesman said: " Karen Steyn has been revealed as a compulsive liar.
"British justice is likely to be a lot fairer without judges who lie. If she can make up a lie in a court order in a court that the wider public come to for justice, she is clearly capable of hiding and ignoring evidence she should have considered in the many cases that she is entrusted to preside over.”
"There is also an issue for the bar and the judiciary. Yet the bar and the judiciary will have to assess on entrusting her with responsibility for people's lives because they were not prepared to blow the whistle on one of their own."
Financial Fraudster News has asked the Lord Chancellor to comment on this article to date no comment has been made.
