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UPDATE: Holiday Products Fraud, 40 Months for Prolific Conman!

Francis ‘Frank’ Madden took holidays around the Mediterranean while his businesses fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of pounds from unsuspecting customers.

Madden, 61 from Bournemouth, has been jailed for 40 months and barred from holding a directorship for a decade! The Conman, who was jailed this week, ruled his companies with an ‘Iron Fist’, despite spending much of his time on cruises with his wife and spending thousands of pounds in doing so.

Staff at his companies, Central Marketing LTD, Glenleigh LTD and Reco Corp LTD, were instructed to cold-call hundreds of people a day inviting them to attend a … Read more

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Whistle Blower Convicted for falsely listing on Companies House Website!

A Warwickshire businessman has become the first person to be prosecuted by Companies House, after he falsely set-up companies on the Government register. Kevin Brewer admitted giving false information to Companies House and to using the names of prominent figures from the City of Westminster.

Companies House is the United Kingdom’s register of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of her Majesty’s Government. It falls under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is also a member of the Public Data Group. The companies register contains information about company addresses, accounts, those … Read more

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Are Diamond Resorts about to go Public?

Are Diamond Resorts about to go public?

Diamond Resorts owns a network of 379 vacation destinations in 35 countries around the world and sells vacation ownership points. In June 2016, Apollo Global Management made a successful offer to purchase Diamond Resorts International. On January 18th 2018, the company underwent a brand refresh, updating its logo and officially dropped the “International” from its name, and became known as Diamond Resorts. Along with these changes, as many as 1,000 employees at more than 15 European locatiions were told they were losing their jobs. This does not appear to have generated enough profit … Read more

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Royal Wedding Beneficiaries Named.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle choose Scotty’s Little Soldiers as Royal Wedding Beneficiaries.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting bereaved British Forces Children and young people and a charity that we here at Praetorian Legal are also supporter’s of.

Founded by war widow Nikki Scott in 2010, Scotty’s Little Soldiers supports children across the UK who have lost a parent while serving in the British Armed Forces and was set up in memory of Nikki’s husband and father of her two children, Corporal Lee Scott, after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

Currently Scotty’s Little Soldiers … Read more

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‘New Deal’ for Consumers.

‘New Deal’ for consumers boosts consumer rights and law.

The EU currently has some of the stongest consumer protection rules in the world. The rights the EU has put in place for consumers give predictability and confidence to both consumers and businesses and include the right to safe products, the right to return a product bought online within 14 days and the right to have a product repaired or replaced within a guarantee period. These are just some of the discernible rights that make a difference to peoples lives. These shared rights have arguably created a greater consumer trust in … Read more

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“Its not your Parent’s Timeshare anymore”

That’s the message from Bluegreen Vacations Corp, a Boca Raton based company seeking to tap the next generation of Traveller’s.

Bluegreen is planning a major expansion to the western U.S of the company’s vacation destinations, whilst also trying to expand it’s customer base, and have announced completion of the purchase of Eilan Hotel and Spa for $34 million. The vacation ownership company is seeking to endeavour to target younger travellers by expanding into hip locations, offering the types of activities and experiences millennials may enjoy. Eilan Hotel and Spa features a fitness centre, luxury locations and is close to Six … Read more

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Timeshare talk – anonymous timeshare trolls out in force

We have been made aware of a seedling thread that is sure to bring the timeshare trolls out in force. Timeshare Talk now have a thread on their forum ‘Praetorian Legal-Data Protection’ and the author of the thread is the anonymous ‘fedupmum’. The theme of the thread is that Praetorian Legal are heavily involved in making nuisance cold calls to this currently anonymous person, do keep in mind the words ‘currently anonymous person’.

Now we have a theory and we are out to prove our theory correct. Our theory is that fedupmum’s post is a bogus person who has … Read more

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Akeld manor and country club

Akeld Manor and Country Club (Management) Limited –BREAKING NEWS!!!!

So the reviled timeshare termination experts Praetorian Legal, who many in the crazy world of timeshare consider are a scam and have no idea what they are doing, have some important news to impart to all of our haters. The latest timeshare resort to capitulate is Akeld Manor and Country Club, who have tried to ignore our advances and the advice given to our clients that their timeshare agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.

Today we received this letter >>>> (the letter is redacted to protect … Read more

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Timeshare talk – Anonymous Timeshare Trolls Out In Force

Timeshare Talk – The Anonymous Timeshare Trolls are Out In Force – FedUpMum – Charlie1

We have been made aware of a seedling thread that is sure to bring the timeshare trolls out in force. Timeshare Talk now have a thread on their forum ‘Praetorian Legal-Data Protection’ and the author of the thread is the anonymous ‘fedupmum’. The theme of the thread is that Praetorian Legal are heavily involved in making nuisance cold calls to this currently anonymous person, do keep in mind the words ‘currently anonymous person’.

Now we have a theory and we are out to prove … Read more

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Diamond Resorts International – Dri

It has recently come to our attention that Diamond Resorts International are writing directly to our clients making offers to exit their timeshare on the basis that they pay all maintenance fees to date which could amount to several thousands of pounds.

Praetorian Legal advise against paying these fees on the basis that the timeshare contract has not been legally challenged and tested before a UK court, and upon the advice of our own legal Counsel, the contracts could be deemed to be unenforceable and/or unfair. Many of our clients may have been members of other timeshare resorts like Grand … Read more

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