MoJ suspends claim chasers Cartel Client Review
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The Ministry of Justice has suspended the authorisation of Cartel Client Review Ltd.
The MoJ, which regulates claims management companies, previously confirmed it was investigating CCR.
It says as a result of the investigation the firm has been suspended and can no longer carry out any claims management services.
The MoJ says it will be “monitoring the situation and considering next steps that may be appropriate”.
A solicitor used by CCR was shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Association earlier this month.
Richard Burley of Consumer Credit Litigation Solicitors in Manchester operated out of the same office complex as CCR.
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Readers' comments (15)
John Lacy | 18 Mar 2010 3:46 pm
At last action is being taken against the parasites and the hangers-on. For every £1.00 that is written off the rest of us are penalised through higher costs and interest rates. Is sanity rearing it's head at last?
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G Riddance | 18 Mar 2010 3:54 pm
Hallejuah - There is a lord after all
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Anonymous | 18 Mar 2010 4:00 pm
my wife had a claim with cartel 2yrs ago and still waiting after paying over £600 for 2 claims and we find it shocking that this company was able to do this. thankyou cartel
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Duncan Jones | 18 Mar 2010 4:37 pm
While their tactics may have caused concern the thrust of what they were seeking to achieve was laudable.The parasites are the banks who leach off customers and have been poorly protected despite the plethora of so called consumer credit legislation.Until there is redress for this CCR and their peers have a cause to pursue,not helped by the OFT getting their case rejected by the Supreme Court as they brought action on the wrong basis.Not very TCF eh!!
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Julian Sunley | 18 Mar 2010 4:38 pm
It's about time, this type of operation makes my toes curl.
If you run up a debt you should pay it off yourself, not try and wriggle out on some small print and leave the rest of us to foot the bill through raised premiums elsewhere.
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Rob Mackinnon | 18 Mar 2010 4:40 pm
I know a mortgage broker who was going round all his Northern Rock mortgage clients telling them he could get them all their mortgage interest payments back. All they had to do was pay a fee upfront on their credit card, so if it didn't work then they could claim the money back of their credit card.
This is the type of unprofessional so called advisers that need to be rooted out.
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Anonymous | 18 Mar 2010 4:45 pm
Thats good, but I see no sign of the hefty fines that the IFA community are normally subjected to when we get it wrong.
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Mark Walker | 18 Mar 2010 5:07 pm
How some of these Companies were ever allowed to trade is beyond me. Many “ambulance chasing” endowment claims were based on standard paragraphs, making many claims at best questionable and at worst fraudulent. What other sector of society would be allowed to make a claim based sometimes on fabricated information?
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Anonymous | 18 Mar 2010 5:17 pm
it is just a shame for those poor deparate people who will have paid fees upfront to Cartel who may never get them back again.
How did the Moj ever Authorise this business in the first place?
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Simon Kershaw | 18 Mar 2010 6:51 pm
If the badly crafted Consumer Credit Act 2008 had not raised the spectre of retrospective judgement this grubby little company would never have existed. Another fine pice of legislation.
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