21 October 2011 . . .

Desmond Hudson, Law Society's chief executive
The Law Society's Hall
113 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1PL

Inaccurate statement made by you to Journalist Jon Robins

Dear Sir

I am the owner/author of the website solicitorsfromhell.com I repeat .com which came into being in 2002/3 after my affairs were handled
by Thos Boyd Whyte Solicitors. I named my website Solicitors from Hell at the time because it was 'attention catching' and summed up my
treatment by my solicitors and their non-existent in-house complaints procedures followed by the Law Society's 'Protection Racket'. My
website is based on fact with all or most supporting evidence embedded (all other available) also, I have offered Thos Boyd Whyte Solicitors
the option of writing a review which they can place on their own website and/or the option I will publish in a prominent position on my own
website, in addition I have, in a letter to them, waived all rights to any confidentiality rules/agreements.

Let me quote you; "fair criticism" is "entirely valid" and the need for clients to be able to give feedback is "extremely important". I believe my
website comes under that umbrella.

On 25rd March this year the Guardian published an article that accused the solicitorsfromhell.com (.com) website of all the misdemeanours
of Mr Kordowski. The enclosures (1), which are direct copies of the Guardian's article (as published by the Guardian from 25 Mar up to the
9th May when they then made a correction) under the heading "Website that has become the scourge of all lawyers, good and bad" the
contents of which are full of defamatory and false allegations, for instance it states; "...owner of solicitorsfromhell.com, scourge of all dodgy
lawyers and perfectly decent ones that have the misfortune of falling into his notoriously non-discriminating net." - "who has a number of legal
actions from aggrieved lawyers against him, that he be must either be "brave or suicidal'' to bait lawyers" - "Mr Justice Lloyd Jones last month
lambasted the hugely controversial website - which seeks to name and shame "corrupt, negligent, dishonest, crooked, fraudulent lawyers" - for
comments about a young solicitor that were, he said, "baseless, abusive, malicious and an unwarranted slur on the competency and probity of
a young lawyer"... The judge was particularly vexed by the site's £299 "administration charge" that lawyers have pay to get their names taken
off the website." As the owner/author of the .com website it also clearly implies I am attempting to 'extort' money out of law firms.

On the 30 March I sent emails to: - jon@jures.co.uk; (Jon Robins Journalist) and cc'd to gus@jures.co.uk; (Gus Sellitto Co Director)
info@jures; letters@guardian.co.uk; (Chris Elliott) letters@observer.co.uk; reader@guardian.co.uk; asking for a correction and an apology,
only receiving automated replies.

On 15 April I repeated the process with two of the six direct to the Guardian; (enclosed (2)) reader@guardian.co.uk; letters@guardian.co.uk;
and cc'd to jon@jures.co.uk; (Jon Robins) gus@jures.co.uk; (Gus Sellitto) letters@observer.co.uk; info@jures.co.uk; once again only
receiving automated replies.

On the 4th May I complained to The PCC who contacted the Guardian on the 9th May who corrected their own website and also contacted
the web addresses I had listed, but that is just the 'tip of the iceberg' as the six week delay had allowed the situation to spiral out of control.
The PCC decided in their wisdom that the ignoring of twelve emails and their mistake was a "genuine human error" and the action the
Guardian took on the 9th May, after six weeks, amounted to "Sufficient remedial action". Of course the Commission covertly slipped
'genuine human error' into the 'Editors' Code of Practice' and gave 'promptly' a new meaning.

Following the PCC advice if I was dissatisfied with the outcome I should write to the 'Independent Reviewer'. I wrote to Sir Michael Wilcocks
the 'Independent Reviewer' who sat on his hands for some nine weeks then tells me he has no powers to 'review' my complaint. If you don't
laugh about it you would end up crying.
To view all the correspondence between the PCC and myself copy and paste this address into your address bar: -
http://www.solicitorsfromhell.com/press-complaints-commission/index.htm

"However from all we have seen, what this website is about is simply a blanket characterisation of all legal professionals as corrupt,
and providing a vehicle for pursuing personal grudges and vendettas."

Mr. Justice Tugendhat said in Court to Rick Kordowski, he "should take reasonable care in relation to the publication", also Mr Vassall-Adams
QC said "...that Mr Kordowski appeared to be willing to publish very serious defamatory allegations without any prior check to establish their
truth or accuracy". Obviously when you spoke to Jon Robins you failed to 'take reasonable care' that you had your facts right and an innocent
person has suffered because of your carelessness.

The situation was exacerbated when the Journalist and the newspaper ignored my twelve emails asking for a correction and an apology, to add
to that the 'toothless' (Nick Clegg's comment) PCC went outside of the Editors' Code of Practice and came back with "genuine human error".
Can you just see Rick Kordowski waltzing into the High Court with that one and the Judge, just like the PCC did to the newspaper, pat him
on the head and say 'don't do that again'.

As I see it, you caused the initial problem in your conversation with the Journalist and from the information you gave him you caused the www
to be profusely littered with derogatory content about my website. The question I would ask, how can the Law Society on behalf of law firms
and Solicitors take Rick Kordowski to the High Court when at the heart of the Law Society they are doing exactly what Mr Kordowski is/has
been accused of? May be Mr Kordowski would be entitled to ask that question in the High Court when the Law Society bring their joint
prosecution!

I believe you need to get together with the Journalist, the newspaper, the PCC and Sir Michael Wilcocks the 'Independent Reviewer' who has
no powers of 'review' and find some solution to the problem caused by yourself and the Journalist, Jon Robins.

Finally, my ex-solicitors who have dropped the Thos and now call themselves Thomas Boyd Whyte so as to lose the stigma of the old name
are now so confused by the Internet stories they have sent me letters trying to intimidate me with threats that the Law Society are taking a joint
action against the owner of SfH .com website and they will be joining that action where they will seek "...the cost of the proceedings", let me
quote them "We would very strongly recommend that you obtain independent legal advice in relation to this and earlier correspondence. In
particular, we would recommend that you instruct specialist litigation solicitors". I have enclosed this letter (8) to show how a supposedly
intelligent firm of solicitors has, by what has transpired from your conversation with Jon Robins, become so confused. You have to laugh, this
'supposedly intelligent firm of solicitors' seem to think that along with Rick Kordowski some 1,000 individuals who have listings on his website
will be in Court with him and law firms will be able to claim their costs etc from them. Pathetic, but then again when they handled my affairs
they managed to have two case numbers at Court, my Solicitor wrote in an Attendance Note that the "Court was getting into a muddle" the
Court clerk wrote to TBW fifteen months later telling them of their error and as they had been randomly using both case numbers this had
caused confusion. May be they should call themselves on their "new brand" website 'Thomas Boyd Whyte Confusion'!

I have never had any listing on Rick Kordowski's website and on my own website I have a 'disclaimer' of any connection with him or his
website.

Yours sincerely

B R Gray

Enclosures:

1. Just three of the many recent Internet media publications that repeat the Guardian's story.
2. My second email copied to six email boxes that went unanswered
3. My complaint to the PCC
4. My email to the PCC listing my 'dissatisfactions'.
5. The Commission's 'Decision'.
6. My request to the 'Independent Reviewer' who has no powers.
   (6a) Tall story, Sir Michael's letter dated 10 Aug which never arrived until I received a copy from Tonia Milton, IR Administrator,
   on the 29 Sept. Let me quote Sir Michael; "Turning to the decision itself, as I have explained, I have no locus here"
   Nick Clegg said the PCC was "Toothless" and it appears the 'Independent Reviewer' is 'useless'.
7. My reply to Sir Michael Wilcocks.
8. The second letter I received from Thomas Boyd Whyte Solicitors.
9. Some Searchengine results the direct results of your interview/conversation with Jon Robins which spiralled out of control because my
   twelve emails were ignored. I wonder if you conveniently used Jon Robins to give positive publicity to your up and coming prosecution(s)
   against Mr Kordowski? If that was the case let me again quote Mr Vassall-Adams QC for it appears you are "...willing to publish very
   serious defamatory allegations without any prior check to establish their truth or accuracy".