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Rogue Family Lawyers

According to ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence (AI) when asked the following question about rogue family lawyers including rogue solicitors and barristers :-

“Write 500 words about rogue family lawyers in the UK“

Family law can be a complex and emotionally charged area, which makes it all the more important for clients to find a competent and trustworthy lawyer to represent their interests.

Unfortunately, there have been instances of rogue family lawyers in the UK who engage in unethical or illegal behavior, thereby causing harm to their clients and damaging the reputation of the legal profession.

One common issue is that of lawyers who fail to properly manage their clients’ cases, leading to significant delays and resulting in their clients losing out on a fair resolution. This can happen when lawyers do not keep their clients informed about the progress of their case, or neglect to file necessary documents on time, or when they provide poor quality legal representation. These types of rogue lawyers can cause serious harm to their clients, who may be left without the financial or emotional support they need during a difficult time.

Another issue is that of rogue lawyers who charge exorbitant fees for services that are not provided or performed to a satisfactory standard. This can be particularly problematic in the area of family law, where clients are often going through a stressful and emotional time, and may not be in a position to carefully scrutinize the fees being charged by their lawyer. Rogue lawyers may take advantage of this vulnerability by charging unreasonable fees for services that are not provided, or by adding hidden charges to their bills.

In addition to these types of unethical behavior, there have also been instances of rogue family lawyers who engage in illegal activities such as fraud or embezzlement. This can occur when lawyers misuse funds from their clients’ accounts, or when they provide false information to clients about their financial situation or the status of their case. These types of rogue lawyers can cause serious financial harm to their clients, and can also damage the reputation of the legal profession.

To protect clients from rogue family lawyers, the UK has several regulatory bodies, such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB), which are responsible for monitoring the conduct of lawyers and taking disciplinary action against those who engage in unethical or illegal behavior. Clients who feel they have been the victim of a rogue family lawyer can also make a complaint to these bodies, who will investigate the matter and take appropriate action.

In conclusion, while the majority of family lawyers in the UK are competent and professional, there are instances of rogue lawyers who engage in unethical or illegal behavior, causing harm to their clients and damaging the reputation of the legal profession.

It is important for clients to do their due diligence and choose a reputable lawyer, and for regulatory bodies to enforce high standards of conduct for all family lawyers in the UK.

The Legal Ombudsman was set up by the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) and established under the Legal Services Act 2007. Their job is to help resolve disputes between consumers and legal service providers.

The Legal Services Act 2007 allows the OLC to publish reports of investigations or Ombudsman decisions if it considers it “appropriate to do so in any particular case”

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Royal Sussex County Hospital – Brighton

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The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in Brighton, East Sussex. It is part of the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital and trust are well known for scandal, controversy and medical negligence. It has also been accused of bullying whistle-blowers and turning a blind eye to serious complaints about nursing staff.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust was placed in category four, receiving a score of 2.82 and placing 117th out of 134 trusts. This trust includes the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

A Sussex NHS trust has been rated among the worst performing in England.

Doctor must be chaperoned with female patients. Jeremy Stuart Clark is a general surgeon specialising in keyhole surgery at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSx) and the Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital. BBC News 27th April 2026

Sussex Police expand NHS death inquiry to heart patients. “…police are now starting to review a small number of cases relating to cardiothoracic surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.” – BBC News 15th April 2026

Inspectors flag up safety concerns at Brighton hospital. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), have threatened to take enforcement action after their visit to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Kemp Town, unless things improve rapidly – Brighton and Hove News 17th December 2025

New boss takes charge of trust that runs Brighton hospitals – Brighton and Hove News 15th December 2025

Family sues Royal Sussex County Hospital over father’s death – BBC News 2nd October 2025

Call to suspend Royal Sussex County Hospital medics under police investigation – BBC 26 August 2025

The care Ms Smart’s mother received from the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust at the Royal Sussex County hospital is being investigated by Sussex Police as part of Operation Bramber, which is looking into at least 200 cases of alleged medical negligence.

Surgeon banned by private practice is working for NHS – Mr Lamah continues to operate as a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

New details emerge of “appalling” surgical practices at Royal Sussex – 2nd October 2024

Details are emerging of some of the “appalling” practices being used by surgeons whose work is under police investigation at a scandal-hit hospital.

One surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital has been revealed as having used his own penknife – which he used to cut fruit for his lunch – to open up a patient’s chest in an operation.

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Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch – BBC News

Gang culture at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges.

Neurosurgeon Mansoor Foroughi is one of two surgeons who alleges patients were put at risk at University Hospitals Sussex, where Sussex Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence.

BBC News 12th April 2024

England’s worst maternity units named and shamed. Yet for eight parts of England, including Brighton, Derby and Luton, MailOnline can reveal the only maternity unit is rated ‘inadequate’ – the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) worst possible score. 

At The Royal Sussex County Hospital, CQC inspectors warned call bells would run for up to ten minutes before staff members responded. Emergency buzzers used to call a doctor could not be heard in some areas.

The hospital’s unannounced inspection was carried out following patient complaints and whistleblowing staff. 

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Royal Sussex County Hospital CQC Inspection

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.

The CQC make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.

The CQC monitor, inspect and regulate services and publish what we find. Where we find poor care, we will use our powers to take action.

  • Safe – Requires improvement
  • Effective – Requires improvement
  • Caring – Outstanding
  • Responsive – Requires improvement
  • Well-led – Requires improvement

Full CQC inspection report for Royal Sussex County Hospital

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Date of inspection visit: 1st to 3rd August 2023 / Published 14th February 2024

‘Let down by a culture of fear’

The NHS Trust that runs hospitals in Sussex has been stripped of its ‘outstanding’ status by its health watchdog and has been downgraded to ‘requires improvement’.

The Care Quality Commission sent in inspectors after whistleblowing concerns were raised by staff themselves.

There are changes, too, for individual hospitals with Brighton’s Royal Sussex County going from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ and the Princess Royal at Haywards Heath going from ‘good’ to ‘requires improvement’.

Inspectors said staff and patients were “being let down” by senior leaders who appeared “out of touch” with what was happening on wards and in clinical areas.

And staff who felt bullied or harassed felt pressured into “making unsafe decisions” amid a culture of fear.

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Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Bullying

Royal Sussex County Hospital bosses told to make urgent improvements.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said that the culture in surgery theatres at the Royal Sussex County Hospital was “still poor” and that staff did not feel they could raise concerns without “fear of reprisals”.

The unannounced visit last August found an “improving” culture on the wards where staff felt respected and supported but inspectors also heard examples of bullying in the surgery unit from 30 members of staff.

CQC bosses said that improvements had been made in some aspects of surgery at the hospital since inspections in 2021 and 2022, resulting in the rating of the unit being raised from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”.

The findings come as a review commissioned by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, reported instances of bullying and harassment and a “culture of fear” regarding the top leadership team earlier this month.

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Medical Negligence

Sussex police consider manslaughter charges over dozens of hospital deaths

Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton amid claims of a cover-up.

Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton amid claims of a cover-up.

Specialist officers from the National Crime Agency and Sussex police are looking into cases of harm, which include at least 40 deaths, in the general surgery and neurosurgery departments between 2015 and 2021.

An email from Sussex police, released to The Times after a court application, revealed the huge investigation is looking into 84 cases connected to neurology and 21 related to gastroenterology. Most of the families are yet to be told that their case is among them.

Officers were called in by the senior coroner after she heard of allegations made by two consultant surgeons at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS organisations with 20,000 staff.

The trust has been accused of bullying the whistleblowers and attempting to cover up the circumstances of the deaths.

Mansoor Foroughi, a consultant neurosurgeon, was sacked for “acting in bad faith” in December 2021 after raising concerns about 19 deaths and 23 cases of serious patient harm.

Another whistleblower, Krishna Singh, a consultant general surgeon, claimed that he lost his post as clinical director because he said the trust promoted insufficiently competent surgeons, introduced an unsafe rota and had cut costs too quickly.

The Times 27th November 2023

Transgender Breast Milk

An NHS trust has claimed that breast milk from transgender women is just as good as that produced by a mother who has given birth.

The Telegraph reported that a leaked letter from a University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust medical director said milk produced by trans-women, with the help of drugs, is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.

The hospital became the first to use the gender-inclusive terms “chestfeeding” and “human milk” for its perinatal services in 2021. It created what it called the “first clinical and language guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people”.

The Standard – University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust guidance attracts criticism from campaigners after being leaked in letter

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Divorce Law

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Divorce law in England and Wales is changing from the 6th April 2022, with the introduction of no fault divorce. This means that couples will be able to get divorced without one person needing to lay blame on the other. This change will also be applied to civil partnership dissolution.

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Here is a breakdown written by Co-op legal services of what the divorce law reforms look like and how no fault divorce will work after these changes have come into effect.

1. Divorce can be granted without one person (spouse) blaming the other

The most important element of no fault divorce is, of course, the removal of fault or blame from the divorce process. Under the new laws, couples will be able to get divorced solely on the basis that the marriage has broken down, without needing to cite one of the 5 reasons for divorce (as is currently required).

This means that if the couple agrees to a divorce and the divorce is amicable or uncontested, there won’t be a requirement for one person to blame the other for the breakdown of the marriage.

2. Couples will be able to apply for divorce jointly

Under current laws, one spouse needs to issue divorce proceedings against the other. The person who starts the divorce is called the petitioner and the other person is called the respondent. Under the no fault divorce system, both people will be able to make the application jointly. 

3. Divorce terminology will be updated

Some of the wording used in the divorce process has been flagged as outdated, so this is being brought up to date. The person applying for the divorce will be called the applicant, instead of the petitioner. The decree nisi will become the conditional order and the decree absolute will be called the final order.

4. There will be a minimum of 20 weeks between the application and conditional order

A minimum timeframe of 20 weeks is being introduced between the application and the conditional order. This timeframe has been introduced to counter concerns that the reforms will make divorce a quicker and easier option for couples than trying to save their marriage. This ‘period of reflection’ will give couples an opportunity to reflect and work through their differences before committing to a divorce.

There will then be a minimum 6 week period between the conditional order and the final order.

Another option for couples is to enter into a separation agreement, which is a written agreement outlining the terms of the separation. A separation agreement will not end the marriage, but it can enable both people to agree on the terms of the separation.

5. It will no longer be possible to contest a divorce

Under the current system, one person submits a divorce petition, citing their spouse’s behaviour or a period of separation as the reason for the divorce, and their spouse can contest this. This is exactly what has happened in the high-profile divorce case of Tini and Hugh Owens. Under the new no fault divorce system, this option will be removed.

Current divorce process in England and Wales

In order to be granted a divorce in England or Wales, the court needs to be convinced that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, to a point where it can’t be saved.

Under current laws, unless a couple lives separately for at least 2 years they can only get a divorce if one person blames the other for this irretrievable breakdown of their marriage, and this must fall into the category of either adultery or unreasonable behaviour.

These blame-based options are two of 5 legally recognised reasons for the breakdown of a marriage under current laws. 

Source: Co-op legal services

Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020

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The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (Commencement) Regulations 2022 states :

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“The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 comes into force on 6th April 2022 in so far as it is not already in force.”

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Can a Woman have a Penis?

A simple question, you might imagine. Activists from three of the largest campaign groups on women’s rights @WomensRightsNet @WomenUnitingUK @SexMattersOrg are urging the public to demand EVERY politician standing in next month’s elections can answer that simple question.

Local elections are happening on 5th May 2022.

“Tell candidates: Respect My Sex If You Want My ‘X’!”

The simple answer to this question is of course YES. It is surprising that the leader of the Labour Party, and now Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer was unable to answer such a simple question.

Read more at the Daily Mail

In June 2022 Keir Starmer said on LBC ‘vast majority’ of women ‘don’t have a penis‘ and need safe spaces…..

Sir Keir Starmer – Can a Woman Have a Penis – LBC

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Freedom of Information Requests (FOI)

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A Freedom of Information (FOI) request in the UK is a right provided by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which allows members of the public to request access to information held by public authorities.

Impact: FOI requests have led to significant disclosures, influencing public debate, policy-making, and sometimes leading to changes in how public bodies operate due to increased scrutiny.

Purpose: The Act aims to promote transparency and accountability in public bodies by making information more accessible to the public.

Who Can Make a Request: Anyone, whether a UK resident or not, can make an FOI request.

What Can Be Requested: Information can be requested from any public authority, which includes government departments, local authorities, the NHS, schools, and police forces. The information must be recorded in some form (e.g., documents, emails, data).

Exemptions: Not all information will be released. There are various exemptions where information can be withheld, such as:

  • National security
  • Personal information (which might fall under the Data Protection Act)
  • Information intended for future publication
  • Information that could prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs

Fees: Requests are usually free, but there might be charges for things like photocopying or if the request involves a significant amount of work.

Appeals: If a request is refused or you’re unsatisfied with the response, there’s a process for internal review. If still not satisfied, you can appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which can enforce compliance.

Organisations you can ask for information

You can request information from some public authorities, such as:

How to make an FOI request

You must make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request in writing. You can do it by:

  • letter
  • email
  • social media
  • online form – check the organisation’s website or the government department’s page to see if they have an online form
  • Use the excellent What Do They Know website to make and publicise your FOI request.
From www.whatdotheyknow.com

You need to describe the information you want as specifically as possible.

Response Time: Public authorities have 20 working days to respond to a request. They can extend this period in certain circumstances.

Before you make a request

You might not need to make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request if the organisation has:

  • already published the information
  • previously responded to an FOI request

Check their website for responses to previous FOI requests. This is sometimes known as a ‘disclosure log’. You can search for published responses to FOI requests from government departments, agencies and arms length bodies.

You can also email or phone the organisation to ask if they’ve already published the information or responded to an FOI request.

What to include

You should give:

  • your name (not needed if you’re asking for environmental information)
  • a contact postal or email address
  • a detailed description of the information you want – for example, you might want all information held on a subject, or just a summary

You can ask for information in a particular format, such as:

  • paper or electronic copies of information
  • audio format
  • large print

When you’ll get a response

The organisation should send you the information within 20 working days of receiving your request. Some schools are allowed more time during school holidays.

In Scotland, you should allow 6 extra days if you send your request by post.

The organisation will tell you when to expect the information if they need more time.

When your information will be shared

If you’ve sent an FOI request to several government departments, they may share your name and request between them. This is to help deal with your enquiry more effectively.

No other details will be shared and your information will not be used for any other purpose.

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Mayo Wynne Baxter Solicitors Environmental Hooligans ?

The following unsolicited junk was received from Crawley Council containing an advert for Mayo Wynne Baxter Solicitors.

At a time of war in Ukraine, rising costs and Councils pleading poverty, spending precious funds on hand delivered environmentally unfriendly printed material, is a waste of public money.

Shame on Crawley Council and shame on their advertisers Mayo Wynne Baxter !

How is this Environmentally Friendly ?? Recycling Junk is unnecessary.

Environmental and Financial Impact of Crawley Live Spring 2022 Issue 100 – a Freedom of Information request to Crawley Borough Council – WhatDoTheyKnow

Crawley Borough Council – Environmentally friendly advice ?
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Mayo Wynne Baxter state in their Corporate Social Responsibility statement published on their website.

“We understand that Mayo Wynne Baxter does not exist in isolation nor are we a firm that is simply a way of making money.

We take a responsible attitude, go beyond the minimum legal requirements and follow straightforward principles to ensure that the firm’s activities leave a positive impact on our suppliers, clients, community, staff and environment.”

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