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Grumpy Old Deafies
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Parliament: British Coal Compensation
Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 10:06pm UTC
Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract (Labour) Whether, in the light of the report of the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales in the cases of Dennis Rimmer and Norman Dickinson, retired miners whose British Coal industrial deafness claims were dealt with by Beresford's Panel Solicitors Scheme, they will request reports from the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Complaints Service concerning the other 6,796 claimants whose cases were sold by Beresford's to its panel of 10 firms of solicitors between June 2002 and March 2004. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Labour) Reports by the ombudsman on individual cases are confidential to the parties concerned. It would not be appropriate for ...