Accompanied by a picture depicting a very concerned and very believable elderly couple seeking legal advice, Brydens Lawyers asserts on its website:
Winning People
Any organisation is only as good as its people – and we have some of the best there are! People trained to listen, sensitively and carefully. People who passionately care about the rights of citizens. People who want to see justice done. People who share in the achievement of fair play.
However every once in a while, even the ‘winning-est’ of institutions, of which Brydens Lawyers is irrefutably a constituent (‘our proven track record is that we win 98% of cases on behalf of our clients’) will recruit bit of a lemon. For Brydens, this appears to have been former lawyer Jason Dimmock.
As reported yesterday by SMH:
Jason Dimmock… was appointed by Brydens to represent two parties in a dispute over a will. But he failed to comply with a string of court orders between October 2007 and May 2008, neglecting to tell his clients of mediation and court hearings and to file affidavits.
Justice McColl noted:
‘The solicitor’s conduct of the matter was, to use the word that appears in one of the intra-firm communications, ‘woeful’. …Mr Dimmock was left in charge of the defence … notwithstanding considerable material in Brydens’ possession demonstrating, to put it as neutrally as possible, his unreliability in relation to matters he was given to handle… [This decision] ‘indicated a substantial failure on Mr Hagipantelis and Mr Bryden’s [Dimmock's principals] parts to appreciate the extent to which they had failed, in the circumstances, to discharge their duty to the Court.’
The court ordered Brydens partners Mr Bryden and Mr Hagipantelis to be joined as respondents to the appeal and to pay the costs of three separate hearings into the dispute. Let’s hope Brydens ‘isn’t only as good as’ Dimmock, Hagipantelis & Bryden.
Intriguingly, the webpage on Bryden’s website entitled “How Winning Feels” reads:
‘case studies currently being compiled’.
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