Legal Conflict

What can you do if you are unsure whether your solicitor has a conflict of interest and should not be acting for you?

A messy scenario…

Three siblings were shareholders in a company. Two were statutory directors, the third was not, but was engaged in a complex and messy divorce. The company had been exposed to significant alleged acts of fraud and stripping/ misappropriation of its assets whilst managed by the two directors and one of the two directors operated a directly competing business…

The complication arose because the same firm of solicitors acted for:
(1) the sibling getting divorced;
(2) the company;
(3) the individual directors; and
(4) the competing company

When the siblings found themselves in dispute with each other, it left them asking the question as to whom the solicitors could act for?

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