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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #225 on: April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #226 on: April 10, 2014, 08:44:38 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?
solicitor who mon hired in constructive dismissal case?

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #227 on: April 10, 2014, 08:46:37 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

He was going to outbid Randy in 2006 but never did.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #228 on: April 10, 2014, 08:46:49 PM »
Wasn't he the silk who was fronting a takeover bid just before Randy came in?

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #229 on: April 10, 2014, 08:47:45 PM »
Wasn't he the silk who was fronting a takeover bid just before Randy came in?

That's more accurate than what I said. He wasn't a prospective owner, he was the frontman of a consortium.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #230 on: April 10, 2014, 08:48:48 PM »
He's definitely a solicitor.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #231 on: April 10, 2014, 08:51:17 PM »
Sort of, he was a High Court judge. He claimed to be fronting a consortium, made a series of PR cock-ups and vanished. Why he ever got involved, God knows.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #232 on: April 10, 2014, 08:51:31 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #233 on: April 10, 2014, 08:52:46 PM »
Sort of, he was a High Court judge. He claimed to be fronting a consortium, made a series of PR cock-ups and vanished. Why he ever got involved, God knows.

All remember was the title Nicholas Padfield QC.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #234 on: April 10, 2014, 08:53:46 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?

Just say 'lawyer', we're all pompous, it's in the job description.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #235 on: April 10, 2014, 08:59:05 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?

Just say 'lawyer', we're all pompous, it's in the job description.

I just recall him being in the above average category when it came to pomposity

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #236 on: April 10, 2014, 09:00:40 PM »
That's a high hurdle to clear.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #237 on: April 10, 2014, 09:02:14 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

Why ask?

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #238 on: April 10, 2014, 09:04:06 PM »
he used a word to define how resolute the seriousness of his consortiums bid. It was one of those long words you don't hear every day, maybe onlty in the legal world, that ultimately turned into an egg that they wiped from their face.

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Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #239 on: April 10, 2014, 09:04:23 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

Why ask?

We were talking about new owners that never were. There was also Tord Grip and some German (I think) woman whose husband had made a fortune somewhere.

 


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