Meet the firm
Some news about the law firm that is planning to sue the Tavistock GIDS:
The U.K.-based plaintiffs firm PGMBM, which operates as a partnership between British, Brazilian and American lawyers, is launching an office in Rio de Janeiro following a significant win for claimants harmed by a dam collapse at a mine co-operated by BHP Inc. in Brazil.
The firm is also changing its name globally, and will now be known as Pogust Goodhead.
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The firm has secured a series of high-profile litigation wins over the past 12 months.
In addition to the court victory against BHP, Pogust Goodhead notched a settlement in May on behalf of 15,000 claimants against the Volkswagen Group, and in 2021 it won an award for 16,000 victims of a British Airways data breach.
Maybe the source is a public relations outfit pretending to be a legal news outlet, but at any rate Pogust Goodhead doesn’t seem to be a couple of mail-order lawyers in a garage.
I would imagine that a firm of lawyers working in such an area doesn’t get a particularly high proportion of wins to cases, but that they make a lot of money when they do win. It’s probably not easy to sue for damages by proving negligence or malicious behaviour, and I presume that the onus is on the suing party to find enough evidence to prove their case, and not that of the defending party to prove their innocence; and on top of that they have to demonstrate that they have suffered a loss. We know that’s hard, because of the Bailey case. That is why I expect a lot of these cases go nowhere, no doubt to the frustration of people who believe (and, indeed, might be correct in that belief) that they have been harmed, but cannot prove it to the satisfaction of a court or tribunal.