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Aug

31

New Chapter of Shame; Keddies Lawyers Allegedly Busted Overcharging… Again

Posted by The Spy | Posted in Firm Gossip, Keddies Lawyers | Posted on 10.15am

We reported in April the allegation that a Keddies lawyer, since convicted of assaulting a female, unnecessarily incurred costs so that he could enjoy a client-paid junket to Hong Kong.

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Last week, more troubling news was reported about Keddies, this time in relation to its alleged over-charging of former client Mohammed Tariq:

For more than a year Mohammed Tariq has been staging a one-man protest about the legal fees the law firm Keddies charged him after a motor vehicle accident left him with head injuries in 2007… the firm charged him $60 for a letter welcoming him to the firm and $49 for reading a thank you email. Now it appears that Tariq has finally had a victory. A cost assessor appointed by the Supreme Court has … taken a dim view of Keddies’s conduct, which included charging the Tariq family $600 for a two-kilometre taxi ride.

The assessor found that:

”Keddies in each case has practised systematic duplication and overcharging, which, in my opinion, is deliberate and has in many cases led to the charging of costs that are grossly excessive”.

The assessor recommended Keddies refund Tariq $37,000.

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