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To the 26 remaining people with cases outstanding

I understand that ACS LAW have been sending out letters in the last two days. Please could you send me a scan of this, or contact me at acs.bore@googlemail.com

IMPORTANT

People who have received letters from ACS:LAW the now INFAMOUS Law Firm based in the UK who have since May been sending out what many consider to be Speculative invoices and others Pay us or we SUE mail to people they suspect of filesharing, seem to have switched to a rather obscure company to continue their dubious practice.

People have started to receive a letter pack from a company called GCB Ltd, C/O Mclean Reid

Mclean Reid are a Chartered accountants and quite what their connection with this is, is not clear .  The letters are posted on here to support others who may be receiving them soon.

The letter is somewhat amusing in the sense that it refers the reader to A copy of the case between Polydor and others vs Brown and others which even ACS:LAW staff felt was irrelevant as the person in the case ADMITTED he was at fault, and also even stranger for a law firm regarding a legal ruling, rather than include Court documents, they refer the reader to a BBC NEWS story about the now discredited Barwinska case .

I would urge ANYONE who has received a letter from GCB LTD on behalf of ACS:LAW to contact the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority)

Contact Centre

Solicitors Regulation Authority

Tel: 0870 606 2555

Fax: 0207 320 5964

UPDATE: Mclean Reid have issued a statement on their Website concerning this situation (Confirmed)

We have no connection whatsoever with ACS Law

GCB Ltd was formed by us and appears to be being misused by some third party.

We are taking urgent steps to ensure that our name is not in any way abused in this connection.

Thank you.

This rather terse statement was followed by a further posting on one of the forums covering the ACS:LAW debacle (UnConfirmed)

GCB Ltd was a dormant company formed by us at the request of a client, we were the registered office for convenience. Our client thought he was helping out an associate of his by allowing that associate to use this dormant company for a business venture (which we knew nothing about). Neither we, nor our client, knew it was going to be used for this purpose. We only discovered this yesterday (13th January) and accordingly advised our client, who also wants to remove his association from this company.

This latest news just adds to the fog, I would urge ALL recipients to complain to the relevant authorities about this as it does seem very suspicious.  On contacting Holborn Place it appears that a Mr Miller is the Director of GBC Ltd

UPDATE  2:

Mclean Reid have now stated the following although I can not confirm it