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You are here: Home / News / Benjamin Mire / LEASE chairman Deep Sagar to rule on Benjamin Mire advertising in its professional directory

LEASE chairman Deep Sagar to rule on Benjamin Mire advertising in its professional directory

March 5, 2014 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

DeepSagarDeep Sagar (right), the chairman of the Leasehold Advisory Service, is to decide whether Benjamin Mire be permitted to continue to advertise in quango’s professional directory.

It costs Mire, the CEO of Trust Property Management in north London, £519 plus VAT to do so.

Last summer, the chartered surveyor resigned his judicial appointment to the property tribunal.

In an unusual move, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office made clear that he would have been sacked because he had:

 “failed to observe the standards that could reasonably be expected of a judicial office holder and that this failing was sufficiently serious to justify his removal from office”.

Mire (below) has appeared as a representative in cases before the tribunal 52 times since 1999.

BenjaminMiregrayLeaseholders complained to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office that there was a blatant conflict of interest with Mire appearing as a frequent litigant at the tribunal and sitting on the panel. 

In November, Sir Peter Bottomley told LEASE in blunt terms to stop accepting advertising from Mire:

“If LEASE takes money or advertising from Benjamin Mire or any business with which he is associated I think you should end it without delay.”

On January 18, LEASE chief executive Anthony Essien informed the veteran MP that there would be a decision in “two weeks”.

“Some issues have arisen that have resulted in the process taking longer than we would have hoped to have reached a resolution,” wrote Essien. “But we expect to have completed the process within the next two weeks and will of course update you.”

On February 24 there was still no decision and the matter had passed to LEASE chairman Deep Sagar.

“I have forwarded it to my Chairman who will be responding to you very soon,” Essien wrote to Sir Peter.

Deep Sagar is familiar to readers of LKP.

Last summer Deep Sagar threatened LKP with legal action demanding the removal of the “Wibble-wobble” post, which criticised the quango. The offending Wibble-wobble post is here

This was followed by Deep Sagar employing RMPI Solicitors to demand the removal of readers’ comments from the site.

He also objected to LKP’s approach to making inquiries into his many and varied public appointments. RMPI, which said it was representing Sagar in a personal capacity rather than as LEASE chairman, sent two letters to LKP.

LKP has not removed any item from the website as a result of complaints from Deep Sagar. It did offer to delete offensive remarks, rather than entire posts, but RMPI declined to address this.

Related posts:

Stop taking money from Benjamin Mire, Bottomley tells Leasehold Advisory Service Quango-crat Deep Sagar told: sack ‘disgraced and disgraceful’ Benjamin Mire or sack yourself! Deep Sagar, chairman of LEASE, threatens LKP over ‘Wibble, Wobble’ article calling for reform LEASE: Benjamin Mire’s advertising stays, but new terms and conditions are issued LEASE dumps Benjamin Mire … after eight months of dithering!

Category: Benjamin Mire, LEASE, News, Sir Peter BottomleyTag: Anthony Essien, Benjamin Mire, Deep Sagar, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Sir Peter Bottomley, Trust Property Management

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  1. chas

    March 5, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    Another nail in the coffin for Leaseholders when we see the people involved in this industry and how we are trampled underfoot by those who supposed to police the Industry.

    Why would this person want readers complaints removed why does he not comment on the site as we do?

  2. Michael Epstein

    March 6, 2014 at 8:42 am

    I understand that Lease have had their public funding cut and have been “encouraged to seek more “commercial” investment.
    Not good news for leaseholders!

  3. Karen

    March 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    I can not wait for the outcome of this investigation from Deep Sagar……
    Not one to pre-empt – I will save my comments until such time….

  4. AM

    March 7, 2014 at 10:26 am

    No reason why the advice business can’t be spun off from the profit centre as say a trust and funded by a grant, the profits of the other profit activities and a leasehold tax of a few £’s a year via council tax. The reason for the lack of conferences for leaseholders is that speakers expect to be paid. These arrangements would allow it to be profitable to do so.

  5. Martin

    March 10, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    It is now 4 months and 2 days since these issues were raised with both the Chair of LEASE and its CEO.

    Someone appears to be playing silly games.

    • AM

      March 11, 2014 at 9:21 am

      Silly games… no its the usual wibble wobble.

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