Judge Berates ‘Greedy’ Paddington Lawyers

Under the above headline the Evening Standard of 1 7 April quoted Lord Cullen, the judge conducting the Paddington rail crash inquiry as saying “I am surprised it has not been possible for the solicitors to subordinate their own interests to those of their clients. I regard it as extraordinary that this situation has come to pass. I have been given no good explanation for the failure of solicitors, instructed by the bereaved and injured, to work together.” The ‘situation’ to which he referred was between a number of firms who were working together and an alleged breakaway firm which wished to represent its 70 clients separately.