Law firm exposed in 'damning' forensic report

The Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) last week filed a damning forensic audit report in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) following a recent intensive investigation into the business practices of personal injury law firm Ronald Bobroff & Partners (RBP). According to award-winning investigative journalist Tony Beamish in a report on the Moneyweb site, the affidavit and report – by two chartered accountants – form part of on-going litigation, in which road accident victim Matthew Graham and his wife Jennifer allege RBP overcharged them and in which they have been asking for an accounting from the Bobroffs for almost five years. The affidavit alleges that, ‘the Bobroffs' trust banking account lost its identity’ and the report concludes by saying that RBP ‘does pose a risk to trust creditors of the firm’. Beamish says the affidavit and the 136-page report detail extensive breaches of the Attorneys Act and rules by RBP and its directors, as well as the massive overcharging of road accident and medical negligence victims, false booking keeping entries, theft of client funds, tax evasion and VAT fraud. Ronald Bobroff and his son, Darren, are named in the report as is director Stephen Bezuidenhout.