Gedye & Sons Arvostelua 

My 89 year old mother recently went to Gedy's to have an ID1 form verified. They charged her £192 (inc VAT) for minutes of work. In my experience solicitors charge a token amount for these sorts of services, especially to long-term clients, which my mother was. I now have to complete an ID1 and have been quoted £25 from another solicitor for exactly the same verification.

Very professional reliable service provided with all questions answered great guidance given
And cuts options given so no massive bill at the end
Wold definitely recommend

Gedye & Sons is a wills and probate law firm based in the almost all white village of Grange-over-Sands, which is in the almost all white region of Cumbria, north west England. Grange is a retirement village with a large elderly population and several care homes, so it is easy to see that Gedye & Sons are situated there like vultures to take advantage of the elderly population.

It is significant that this all white firm is based in a largely white area of England, because one of the directors invited me, a black Londoner, to a meeting room at a building in multi-racial London called 15 Old Bailey where he threatened me as soon as shook hands with me, lied to me, abused me, committed FRAUD against me in order to exclude me as an executor named in my Nigerian mother’s will, pushed me in to signing a dishonest, manipulative statement drafted by him and completely took advantage of me as an inexperienced layman, instead of helping and advising me, which is against Solicitors Regulation Authority rules.

The solicitor/director of Gedye & Sons who invited me to a meeting where he perpetrated fraud on me has turned out to be an appalling hypocrite, because after defrauding me he has since written an article for the Law Society website entitled “Close to home - Spotting Elder Abuse” in which he suggested that other family members mainly perpetrated financial and will related elder abuse. One of the ways of perpetrating this abuse he cited was:

“5. Getting someone to sign a document through deception, coercion or undue influence.”

I am stating now for the record that this solicitor of over 30 years experience did the above to me at a meeting he invited me to, in order to fraudulently remove me as a named executor of my mother’s will, using a fraud known as “power reserved”. He also added something to the statement he wrote in order to change the meaning into something much worse than what he had been trying to sell me. Pure FRAUD! More about this is in my Google review of Gedye & Sons. When I later visited the City of London Police and told them what he did to me, they told me it was FRAUD!

Although he claimed in his article that financial and will related elder abuse was mainly carried out by family members, he omitted to say solicitors are also heavily implicated in this. A Cumbrian named Jonathan Jackson has commented, “Solicitors often bully elderly clients, who are unable to protect themselves, never great outcomes …” I have experienced this abuse from this crooked solicitor and firm myself and if he can do it to me, he can certainly do it to some of the many elderly people in Grange. A resident of Grange told me others in the town have had problems with this firm and that Gedye & Sons doesn’t even have a good reputation in Grange. In my opinion he and his firm should not be allowed anywhere near the town’s vulnerable elderly.

The fraudulent method he and his firm, including his probate manager used to fraudulently remove me from involvement in my late mother’s estate administration, is a crooked probate solicitor’s fraud known as “Power Reserved”. Many crooked probate solicitors use this fraud to fraudulently remove legally named executors. One of them even admitted to me that he had done the same himself.

This Cumbrian solicitor and firm went on to add PERJURY to his fraud in order to remove me, when he and his liar probate manager submitted a known FALSE OATH, sworn by my so called British Transport Police “brother”, where he swore to Manchester High Court that he had notified me in writing of his dubious intention to apply for probate in his sole name, even though me and our uncle had also been named executors in the will. Gedye & Sons, my crooked police “brother” and his corrupt sister in law colluded and used fraud and perjury to obtain a Grant of Probate in my brother’s name alone without my knowledge or consent and then proceeded to administer my late mother’s estate without me or my uncle’s involvement, consent or signatures as executors, which is PROBATE FRAUD.

He and his firm have used their fraud and perjury to treat me extremely disrespectfully and as if I am not an executor. To this day he has repeatedly ignored and refused my many letters, emails and requests for my late mother’s estate information, which as an executor I am entitled to, even after I went to the trouble of applying for my own Grant of Probate and sent them copies with my requests. Because he manipulated the acquisition of a Grant of Probate without my name on it, he is fraudulently and outrageously treating me as though I’m not an executor, but in Probate Law an executor’s authority is derived from the will and not from the Grant of Probate. He is using his fraud as an excuse, because he wants to block me from access to evidence of his wrongdoing, misconduct and fraud.