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Paralegal addicted to gambling stole £438k from law firm
15.05.2022 - 11:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A paralegal who was addicted to gambling has been jailed for stealing £438,000 from a law firm. Paul Young, 38, from Middleton, simply directed interim payments intended for innocent victims of road crashes into his bank accounts.
A court heard the victim of his fraud was his Manchester-based employer Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM), which specialises in defending motoring claims on behalf of insurance companies.
Young, a father-of-two who earned £24,500-a-year as a paralegal at the firm's 'volume motor team' in Manchester city centre, was caught making one payment to the wrong payee but bosses didn't realise it was his account and dismissed it as a 'simple error'. It meant he could continue to defraud his employer, taking advantage of 'flaws in their system', a court was told.
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He joined the firm in January 2016 and on his CV said he had worked 'generally in the industry' but neglected to mention he had worked for another company, Pro-Law, the court heard.
Had BLM been in a position to check the candidate's performance at Pro-Law his chances of being taken on would have been 'very slim', prosecutor Henry Blackshaw told Manchester Crown Cour t although the detail of his time there was not revealed.
Young dealt with solicitors who were making personal injury and vehicle damage claims to insurance giant, Aviva, which in turn was 'trusting the authenticity of the request', Mr Blackshaw told the court. Aviva had 'delegated' management of the claims to BLM.
Young worked on a fledgling claims management system at BLM named Blue Prism, replacing the previous practice of sending the insurer an email to request payment which an official at
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