Office for the Supervision of Solicitors

Pollard ProbertOn 24 January 2001, the Law Society passed a resolution to intervene in the above named solicitors who practised at 33 Regent Street, Blyth, Northumberland and 13 Lintonville Terrace, Ashington, Northumberland, under the name of Pollard Probert.As the practice had been wound down prior to the committees decision to intervene, the intervention is in respect of the residual stored files and thus no intervention agent has been appointed.John Crossley Culpan of CulpansMidland Bank Chambers, Victoria Square, Droitwich, Worcestershire.The Law Society intervened into the archived files of the above practice.

The live files were acquired last year by Messrs Parkinson Wright of Worcester.Tom Eastwood BurkeOn 21 March 2001 the Law Society passed a resolution to intervene in the practice of the above named solicitor who practised at 3-5 Barton Street, Manchester, M3 4NN, under the firm name Tom Burke & Co.

This decision was as a result of Mr Burke having been adjudged bankrupt on 29 January 2001.The Trustee in Bankruptcy, Mr Thornhill of Messrs Pricewaterhousecoopers of 33 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4JP, arranged for the disposal of most of the live files to be acquired by Messrs Olliers Solicitors of 2-3 The Birtles, Wythenshawe, Manchester, tel: 0161 437 0527 (ref: Mr Matthew Claughton).Mr N Day of Messrs Hague Lambert of 15 Byrom Street, Manchester, M3 4PF (tel: 0161 834 6066), has been appointed to act as the Societys intervention agent to deal with the remaining residual matters.