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What is Motoring Fraud?
Motor fraud arises most commonly in the following ways:
- By being a passenger or a driver in a car that is used as the target vehicle in a collision and thus, when individuals in that vehicle make a claim, they are susceptible to prosecution as the accident is clearly not genuine.
- When collisions are staged on both sides but the details of entirely innocent people are used in the whole claim process.
In the internet era, it is easy to obtain sufficient details of an individual required to set up these ventures. Those details are then used to buy a car, insure it and be named as the individual responsible for causing the staged accident. Sometimes those details are then used to hire a replacement car under the terms of the insurance policy. Using that car, a further accident is staged.
It has been known that people working within hire car companies have not complied with their requirements as to verifying identification because they too are involved in the criminal enterprise. The criminals at the top of the tree, however, are the directors of the Claim Management Companies (CMC).
When an accident happens most people either call their insurers or go to a CMC who deal with the whole process. It is the latter which has provided the problems. The CMC would refer the claim onto a firm of solicitors with whom they have a close working relationship. For that referral, they used to be paid a “referral fee”. This practice has now been abolished but the companies are finding other methods to recoup that money in ways which do not fall foul of the legislation – staged accidents are still occurring.
All of this means you could be caught up in a claim that could seriously affect your future if you are involved in a deliberate accident.
If you are suspected of Motor Insurance Fraud, get in touch for advice.

Barristers
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QCs
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Head of Chambers
Simon Bickler QC
Call: 1988
Silk: 2011
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Nigel Sangster QC
Call: 1976
Silk: 1998
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Richard Barraclough QC
Call: 1980
Silk: 2003
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Simon Myerson QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2003
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Bryan Cox QC
Call: 1979
Silk: 2005
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Associate Tenant
Jane Bewsey QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2010
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Sam Green QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2015
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John Harrison QC
Call: 1994
Silk: 2016
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Jonathan Sandiford QC
Call: 1992
Silk: 2020
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Associate Tenant
Cameron Brown QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2020
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Members
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Jeremy Barnett
Call: 1980
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Philip Standfast
Call: 1980
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Nikki Saxton
Call: 1992
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Robert Smith
Call: 1995
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Derek Duffy
Call: 1997
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Nicholas Worsley
Call: 1998
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Alasdair Campbell
Call: 1999
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Denise Breen-Lawton
Call: 2000
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Andrew Stranex
Call: 2000
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Jane Brady
Call: 2001
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James Bourne-Arton
Call: 2001
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Sasha Bailey
Call: 2002
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Danielle Graham
Call: 2003
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Hal Watson
Call: 2003
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James Lake
Call: 2005
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Andrew Nixon
Call: 2006
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Helen Chapman
Call: 2006
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Voldi Welch
Call: 2008
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Hannah Hinton
Call: 2008
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Angus MacDonald
Call: 2009
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Sophie Mitchell
Call: 2010
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Hannah Lynch
Call: 2011
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Stephen Flint
Call: 2012
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George Hazel-Owram
Call: 2012
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Kristina Goodwin
Call: 2013
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Stephen Elphick
Call: 2014
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Charlie Greenwood
Call: 2015
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Frances Pencheon
Call: 2015
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Jessica Heggie
Call: 2017
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Temitayo Dasaolu
Call: 2018
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Ayman Khokhar
Call: 2018
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Harry Crowson
Call: 2019
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Emma Handley
Call: 2019
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