Probate Firm Fined After Three Year Delay To Administer Estate

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The High Court has ruled that a probate firm must pay half of the costs of a beneficiary after the firm failed to progress the administration of his late mother’s estate. Chorus Law, based in the Midlands, was instructed in 2013 by Marquita Murphy to administer the estate of her mother, Eileen Gaskin, who had […]

ICO Fines Pensions Company For Sending Two Million Spam Emails

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Kent pensions firm Grove Pension Solutions Ltd £40,000 for sending 1,942,010 direct marketing emails in the one-year period to 31 October 2017. The ICO is responsible for safeguarding the public’s information rights and data privacy and has the power to impose substantial fines for breach of the relevant […]