RJR News understands that the General Legal Council (GLC) is now looking into more than 300 complaints filed against attorneys-at-law by clients.
Last week, prominent attorneys Harold Brady and Michael Lorne were charged with defrauding their clients of millions of dollars. The police are also investigating other complaints against other attorneys.
THe General Legal Council is concerned about the number of complaints being filed, especially by elderly persons,most of who live overseas.
THey have complained of money not being paid over to them in real estate deals. However, it's understood that the bulk of the complaints involves negligence, delays in having cases heard and dishonesty on the part of attorneys who reportedly collected money for cases they failed to take to court.
It's understood that the Disciplinary Committee of the GLC is probing more than 20 cases in which individuals and companies have been defrauded of millions of dollars.
The complainants took the cases to the Council for mediation instead of reporting the matter to the Fraud Squad.According to our sources, the complainants have taken this route with the hope that the GLC will apply pressure on the attorneys to hand over their money.
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