Celebrating a year of Mr Justice results

Dec 27 2009 by Mr Justice, Sunday Sun

MARQUE my words – no one is safe when Mr Justice gets into top gear.

I put my foot down when Mark Hughes, of Sedgefield, County Durham, complained about his Volvo S89.

Mark told me the car, starting at £21,750 on the road, had the nasty habit of stalling.

Mill Garages, of Stockton, provided a better car at no extra cost.

THE case for the prosecution, m’lud, is that lawyers are sometimes an ass.

Take the case of Atteys Solicitors who sent Alan Dodgson a cheque for £3,891 following a relative’s legacy.

Alan, of Barnard Castle, County Durham, was delighted – until batty Atteys asked for £2,086 back because they made a mistake.

My verdict on the Doncaster law firm – guilty of being stupid.

WHO can put a value on the time I helped young couple Emma Simpson and Joseph Forster?

Emma, of Penshaw, Tyne and Wear, came to me because they had lost a mortgage after a shop’s mistake branded her a debtor to the tune of £4.

The lenders admitted they had made a keying error in turning Emma down.

They agreed to make a new mortgage offer after I exposed the mistake.

EVEN dogs needed my help this year.

Boxer dog Hootch, with a little help from owner Glen Brewis, of Blyth, Northumberland, was waiting months for an insurance company to pay his vet’s bills.

Oddly enough, it was the second time I had helped Hootch over delayed payment from Equine and Leisure.

Bosses at the York-based company promised to sit up and pay attention in future.

WHAT does the TSB in Lloyds TSB stand for? I said it was Tally of Stupid Bungles.

I revealed how the bank repeatedly made mistakes when Audrey Brady, of Bedlington, Northumberland, asked them to change the details on her car insurance policy when her husband died.

Instead, the bank sent letters of condolences to him instead of her.

The bank admitted the blunders and put measures in place to stop it happening again.

IT would be tempting to say Maria Hart’s complaint about a smelly loo in her holiday cottage was bog standard.

But there was nothing standard about the smell of raw sewage.

Maria, of Darlington, had booked Luke’s Hoose in Ambleside, Cumbria, for a week’s break but had to return home when repairs were not carried out despite repeated requests to letting agents Lakelovers. Lakelovers – who refunded the full amount of £720 – apologised for a series of miscommunications.