Background
I was an only child. My father wanted our family home, and all it's contents, to pass to me upon his death. He went to the largest law firm in town, Norton Peskett, and instructed them to write his Will to accomplish this. The result was a catastrophe that has destroyed my life. Norton Peskett wrote my father's Will in a manner that allowed them to ignore his wishes. They then proceeded to loot our family home, taking or destroying not only property and financial assets belonging to my father, but also my own personal property that was in our house at the time. This website presents an open letter to Norton Peskett Solicitors, to ask them questions in front of a large audience on the Internet.Questions put to Norton Peskett Solicitors from a Former Client
My father carefully prepared documents detailing his assets, the whereabouts of bank accounts, etc. Why did you gratuitously destroy these documents that were necessary for the administration of the estate, thus making estate administration so much more difficult? Your action has rendered some estate assets untraceable, lost forever because of your incompetence. Or did you destroy these documents deliberately? If so, what was your motive ?Why did you tell me that I was not an executor, and that I had no control over my family home, the property left to me by my father in his Will, or indeed even my personal possessions at were in my family home at the time? You knew that my father had asked you to make me an executor of his estate, and indeed I was named as an executor in his Will. So why did you tell banks, building societies, unit trusts, brokerages, etc. that I was not an executor, and that they should ignore my instructions? Why did you tell Howards Estate Agents in Lowestoft that they should ignore my wishes for my family home, and only accept instructions from you? I told you repeatedly that I did not want you involved in the administration of my father's estate, and that I wished to administer his estate myself. So why did you defy my wishes? Why did you defy my late father's instructions given to you? Why do you sometimes assert that I am your client, and sometimes assert that I am not your client, as suits your purposes at that moment in time? Why did you assert that I was not your client when you wanted to defy my wishes, and ignore my desperate screams that you not destroy my most cherished possessions? Why did you destroy my most treasured possessions, hiring contractors to haul my possessions to the council dump like toxic waste. Why did you take money from the estate to pay for this destruction, thus forcing me to pay for the destruction of everything that mattered to me in this world? And why did you bill the estate twice for the same acts of destruction? Did you keep the money from the duplicate billing for yourselves? Why did you install a “caretaker” to protect my home from me? There is a clear paper trail showing that your “caretaker” sold items of my property at a local auction rooms, and retained the proceeds of the sales for himself. What part of a “caretaker”'s duty involves selling the property that they are taking care of, then retaining the proceeds for themselves? Why do you now refuse to cooperate in the criminal prosecution of your “caretaker”?
Explain why you held estate assets hostage, billing the estate exorbitant amounts of money for the time you spent fighting me, your own client? Why did you torture me, watching me scream in agony as you destroyed everything my family had worked so hard for for three generations, while you taunted me that every time I fought you to protect my property from you, you would bill the estate yet more for your efforts in fighting me, loot yet more of my father's estate?
My father gave you clear instructions that he wanted our family house, and all his other property, to pass to me upon his death. Explain why our house is lost forever, demolished, and all property contained in our house is gone. Not only items that comprised my father's estate, but also my own personal property, either destroyed, or sold with you and your accomplices retaining the proceeds for yourselves. What authority did you have to take my own personal property to which I had clear legal title? You are not executors of my estate, and I am not yet dead, so no executor would have authority to act.
How could you act with such brutality as to destroy our family photos, all that I had to remind me of my parents and my childhood memories? What was your motive for committing this callous act of deliberate psychological torture?
When I issued court proceedings against you, why did you refuse to answer in a court of law for your behaviour? Why did you hide using the cowardly technique of demanding security for costs to prevent the substantive case from being heard? Why did you destroy my home so that I had no home address to use when I issued court proceedings against you?
You have claimed on your website that you have a 98% satisfaction rate, which is many standard deviations higher than the national average (SRA 2008). An approval rate that high is very unlikely. You have also asserted on your site 10 testimonials from people that you claim to be your former clients, although you identify them only by the first letter of their last name. They all give your firm good
reviews. But are these testimonials genuine? Are they real people,
or are they invented by yourselves? To speak plainly: Are you lying
about those testimonials? A partner in your firm, Julian Robert
Gibbons, has on numerous occasions been caught pretending to be
fictitious former clients of your firm, and using those fake
identities to give fake good reviews to your firm. He was caught
doing this on Qype, Google Maps, Yelp, Cylex, and several other
similar review sites. When exposed as lies, those reviews were
removed. It is clear from the by-lines of articles on your website
that Julian Robert Gibbons played a major role in the creation of
content for your website. I have received feedback through my own
website from a large number of your former clients. They all
described having a very bad experience with Norton Peskett, no
exceptions. For all these reasons I suspect that the testimonials on
your website are not genuine. Will you arrange for these 10 alleged
former clients that you quote on your site to contact me, provide
proper identification to prove their real world identities, and tell
me of their experiences with you? If they are genuine there should
be no valid reason to refuse this test.
