For a small local firm their solicitor was top draw and the barrister was spot on.
After being threatened with a £250,000 defamation case I found myself facing a court case whilst injured and in a partial stroke having also being wrongly served a High Court Injunction because I was targeted for helping the victims of what has been proven by Trading Standards to be a highly sophisticated scam.
Wake Smiths solicitor suggested mediation but the competitor backed out at the last minute and produced a sworn affidavit – only it was full of lies and was paid for by my competitors chairman at a cost of £2500 to his operations manager. In other words pay as you go perjury.
Wake Smith supported me through the court case and I was vindicated and the case was dismissed as so was the HCI with substantial damages paid out by the competitor to his victims.
What was unique about this case was how Wake Smiths solicitor and barrister not only helped me in court defend the case, but also helped the Judge understand how my competitor operated.
The Judge summarily awarded me damages equivalent to what they had attempted to sue me for in a unique ruling. For any trainee solicitor look up the term “mulcted in cost” as applied in the court and see how rare this outcome is achieved. I have had lawyers across the country say this is such a rare ruling it was effectively saying to my competitor you have been caught out trying to buy the law and a legal ruling – do not try that again.
My competitors solicitor was in such shock she rang my competitor “a leading computer forensics investigator” and “litigation consultant” from her mobile whilst the judge was giving ruling and then ran out of the courtroom forgetting her copious files of evidence.
Wake Smith in this case supplied the right level of expertise to ensure a global pseudo legal firm and computer forensics specialists / data recovery expert operating in various Fields did not get away with the scam they attempted on me.