No forgery or fraud

Your correspondent Allan Richards ignored the recently expressed views of the High Court concerning his allegations of forgery and fraud to do with a plan of landholdings at Brentford. (narrowboatworld Friday 6th December), a spokesman for Canal & River Trust tells us.

These allegations were fully aired in the case of De Vere vs Land Registry (in which the Trust and Mr Nigel Moore were joined as ‘interested parties'). In his Judgment [2013] EWHC2477 (Admin), His Honour Judge Anthony Thornton QC said that the claimant had ‘not produced a scintilla of evidence to show that any error it contains arises from an act of dishonesty, fraud or forgery.'

Particularly in the light of that Judgment, Allan Richards' assertions are wholly unfounded and thus defamatory.

Addendum

Our Allan Richards replies explaining why this information was not included in his article:

Not only has CaRT wrongly attributed allegations to myself rather than Nigel Moore but it is also wrong for them to claim these allegations were fully aired in the case of DeVere vs Land Registry.

Mr Moore was not claimant in this case according to CaRT's press release. He made no oral submission and did not cross examine any witnesses. Furthermore, CaRT's own press release makes it clear that the Judge was referring to Mr DeVere rather than Mr Moore regarding accusations of fraud and forgery.

The article, quite correctly, quotes the comments made in a later case that does refer to the allegations made by Mr Moore which CaRT failed to comment on.

The article can be found at Forgery and Fraud