Ian Brakspear’s personal and legal attack on a senior member of one of South Africa’s largest and most prestigious law firms is causing a media stir. [Example: http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=109546].
Leonard Katz, an attorney from Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, calls the allegations “rubbish.” Brakspear, however, has filed a lawsuit that indicates that Leonard Katz forged a court order in the Durban High Court. His story reads like a suspense thriller: threats, lies, secret meetings, cover-ups and collusion. The Hawks have investigated and provided testimony that the documents may well have been forged.
The role of Leonard Katz’ in other, rather dubious liquidation cases, has been exposed in the Noseweek publication. He has denied these allegations in the media.
In a letter to Leonard Katz (reproduced fully below), Mr Brakspear vented his anger:
“Know this Katz, …I am going to make sure you go to jail. You are someone who craves money and power and you have no vestige of conscience. …I am coming after you and am going to expose you even if it means I have to go the Constitutional Court.” [read the whole letter below]
Listen to the full interview with Ian Brakspear here: http://downloads.newera.org.za/TheNews/. [Right mouse click on Episode 13 and choose “save target as.”]
Ian made it clear that he stands by everything he says. For more information, you may contact him directly on 076-035-7553 (brakspear@gmail.com).
Here is a man who is standing up for himself. Big time.
THE NEW ECONOMIC RIGHTS ALLIANCE
FULL ORIGINAL LETTER
(warning: this letter is explicit)
From: Ian Brakspear <brakspear@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:20:39 +0200
To: <Lkatz@ens.co.za>
Cc: Jacques Pauw<Jacques.Pauw@media24.com>; <tb@noseweek.co.za>; <editor@noseweek.co.za>; <brian.porter@inl.co.za>
Subject: Fwd: Your emails of 26 October 2012 #0290809#
Know this Katz
Yesterday day I got approval for a large amount in lawsuit funding from a UK firm. For 4 years I have been fighting this improper and illegal liquidation and for 18 months now 2 dedicated and hard working detectives from the HAWKS (ably assisted by a state advocate) have been investigating this matter, cumulating in them discovering gross irregularities in Durban High Court and a number of cases of perjury in various affidavits – all involving you in some way or another!
So this is a “fuck you” letter and to tell you I am now I am coming after you and am going to expose you even if it means I have to go the Constitutional Court.
I am going to make sure you go to jail. You are someone who craves money and power and you have no vestige of conscious. You pursue your career with a cold passion that tolerates none of the usual moral or legal encumbrances. When it is expedient you doctor the accounting, you stab your employees and clients in the back, tell lethal premeditated lies to people you trust and to persons in authority. You steamroll over people who are dependent and voice less. And all of this you do with the freedom that results from having no conscience at all
You have attempted to blackmail us, threatened us with criminal proceedings, threatened us with interdicts and threatened to sue us for “damages already suffered”- what fucking damages?What you are-is gutless thug launching unforgivable campaigns against others, using the law to hide behind and at the same time you take advantage of helpless people complete lack of understanding of the law. You are a sociopath who is in no way moved by the nagging voice of conscience that prevents other people from doing everything and anything they have to do to succeed, you act with a callous disregard for the devastating effects your illegal and improper actions have on others.
You and your partners in crime -Botha and Macready- made an intentional misrepresentation of material facts for the sole purpose of inducing a KZN Judge to act. Those misrepresentations were made deliberately, with total disregard for any consequences and the sole intention of wiping out my family financially but at the same ensuring you a handsome personal gain.
- Botha was never Chairman of BoE
- Botha never had personal knowledge of any facts relating to the farm Klein Normandie.
- Brakspear trust never lent £400 000 to Westley trust in 2004
- Westley trust never paid £500 000 to anyone in June 2008
- Westley trust never borrowed £500 000 from Fairbairn Bank
- West Dunes never borrowed £500 000 from Westley trust.
- There was no legally enforceable right for Westley trust to call a loan due and payable.
- The substantive facts contained in founding affidavit was one big lie!
Macready as Director of the Bank involved could not ever prove that the information contained in Botha bullshit affidavit was taken from Fairbairn business records. That he had personal knowledge of Fairbairn procedures for creating these records, and that they were made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters as stated by Botha. Simply because none of it ever happened. You are all complicit in a fraud and I am going to show this to the world despite all the “outside threats” we have revived by peoples unknown
And the bullshit that you claim that “I consented” shows what lying and deceitful son of bitch you are. And even if, by the slightest remotest possibility it was true, the onus of satisfying the Court still rests with the sequestrating creditor and at no stage of the proceedings is any onus of disproving any of the these points shifted to the debtor- which begs the question what lies did you tell the KZN High Court Judge in your supposed “Chamber meeting” that proved that what you and your client stated was true
What bullshit did you tell the Judge that convinced her that my answering affidavits version of events was so farfetched and outrageous that it could not be relied on by the Court to decide the case? Want to sue me- go ahead and prove each and everyone of my statement above is untrue and everything you have said is the truth. I will bring a hundred plus witness’s who will testify to the kind of man you really are and to the utter crap you spew out to the courts.
Good companies own up to their mistakes –pull their defective products off shelves, recall faulty mechanical parts, investigate their staff for malfeasance and make public apologies but you threaten and bully like the testosterone deficient arse hole that you are.
1 Deliberate misrepresentations to the courts,
2 Fraudulent Bills of Costs submitted to the taxing master.
3 False signatures on said Bill of Cost
4 Court cases that were irregular,
5 Irregular Court Orders typed in a different format and font to the usual ones and always signed on the same day as if you are special and the rest of the law firms must wait for days for their Orders
6 Court files that are missing,
7 Court transcripts that contain no records of cases ever been before the Judge –
8 Abuse of section 417 and 418 hearings, applying the law selectively to one party (us) but ignores or fails to enforce that same law against certain members of another party (Botha and the trustees -coincidentally your clients ) -simply because the lie you perpetuated would be exposed – the Commissioner has acted Mala Fide and I would bet on your instructions!
All the above have one thing in common the name “Leonard Katz” . I have copies of newspaper reports of a doctor, a pharmacists and an optometrist being convicted of fraud for amounts of less that R5000 –double charging and false invoicing –your fees are in excess of R2 million – add in the improper commission payment of nearly R 1 million . And while you carry on with these outrageous fees and fraudulent accounting entries- my 80 year old mother has to live in garage in the UK .
I am making it my life mission to expose you for what you have done to me and my family and every day you and your firm allow this bullshit to continue I am going to make sure that the damages claim will be so high that it will deter any such behavior ever again from misbehaving attorneys, and finally i will make sure that you experience the floor and walls of a cold jail cell just like you have done to my mother in her cold and miserable garage
I make no apologies for including the Chairman of your Group or members of the press when sending this email.(Jacques can you please forward to Chairman as his email address does not up on my computer)
I do apologize to those people cc in this email offended by my swearing
Have a nice day you deceitful thieving twat