Complaint Review: Josh Mennen - Sydney Internet

I too had a first hand experience receiving a written legal opinion from Josh Mennen and what I would like everyone who finds themselves reading this report to know is from my experience, everything the author of this report has said that goes to the character and lack of professionalism of Josh Mennen in his capacity as a solicitor is 100% absolutely correct. I empathise with the author of this report very much. I also wish the author much better than what they have been through in the situation in the future and I encourage them to try to never ever give up no matter how demoralised and betrayed they may feel. Keep fighting and never stop until you feel its the right thing for you, listen to yourself. 

I do not intend to detail my legal case or circumstances or the history of all of it in this comment or otherwise, that is my personal and private business. However I will say this:

- I went to Maurice Blackburn in what was probably my darkest hour in a 5 year (approx) long legal battle over my TPD claim which had been completely denied, period.

- I did so because I was very dissatisfied with the solicitor who was acting for me at the time and Maurice Blackburn were offering a free initial consultation and advice to all people with legal cases such as mine, in similar circumstances. I just had this sick feeling in my gut that the people I was relying on the most to help me were actually making my situation worse because they just didnt care, my case was too hard and I am not a person of any importance at all so they had no need or want to care.I felt I was being bullied and pressured to doubt myself and how I felt and so I desperately needed an independant opinion on my circumstances as they were to either confirm or deny my fears.

- The few interactions I had with Maurice Blackburn were only with a legal clerk who I dont believe was even a solicitor I think she was a legal student on a placement in a law firm as part of her degree. Please let me be clear that I am not sure of this but I'm not just making this up either, at best she was a 1st year entry level solictor with no experience. To be fair she did handle our communications and all interactions with me very well. I actually felt relieved and like I was really being listened to and understood after speaking with her. It was her job to be the person to deal directly with me, take my story and my information and to receive my documents and evidence and then complie all of that in a brief essentially which she was to then provide to Josh Mennen for his consideration. I was told Josh would then contact me himself by phone and after that he would forumlate and provide his written advice on my case.

- Eventually I did receive a written advice from Josh Mennen although he provided his advice without ever calling me or actually speaking to me himself at all not even once. Im no lawyer but I know that is wrong by instinct. His advice was absolutely shattering for me. It was daming. It was very negative. It seemed very incomplete and I could see right away that there were key aspects to my situation that he had either ignored, dismissed or simply noted that he had not considered in providing his advice. I thought how can he even give an advice without considering those things it makes the whole exercise a complete waste of time? The entire message and conclusion to his advice was, you have no case, we cannot act for you, thank you goodbye. 

- It is quite hard to try and describe how this affected me, Im not sure I was ever really serious in my thoughts at the time following receiving Josh Mennen's advice, but I can say that there several times when I thought "Im going to kill myself, my life is over anyway." If I wasnt serious about that I was comletely serious in perhaps wish I could die by the cause of some accidential, external source. I hope what  have just said demonstrates to anyone reading this that every word I am saying here is genuine and the truth as I see it. 

- Ironically, after 4 years representing me, the solicitor who had been acting for me that I was dissatisfied with as I mentioned above, resigned and refused to continue acting for me only aproxmately 2 months after I received the advice from Josh Mennen. He did this because I had started to uncover and expose his complete incompetence as a solicitor. This then left me completely onmy own with no legal representation whatsoever and not one cent to retain any other firm or lawyer to help. Its probably no surprise I didn't realy feel like I wanted a new lawyer by this tme anyway, I was n inch away from giving up on my case, myself and my life completely. I felt defeated, betrayed, abandoned and honeslty, I just hated everything. I mean everything.

- However, as it has always been with me, I dont know whether its smarts or just plain stupidity on my part, but my best characteritic as a person has always been my persistence. No matter how big or small the problem or puzzle is, If I cant solve it for some reason quickly, I just cant ever let it go. Never. I never give up. This has the potential to be a dangerous thing but also a glorious one.

- Something inside me wouldn't shut up and it kept saying to me it doesnt matter what they say or who they are, they are wrong and you are right believe in yourself, dont give up, fight! Fight for your life. And I did. I chose to carry on representing myself with no representation or help at all from anyone. No one. Not professionally, not personally. 

- 4 to 5 months later, I won, out of court, I didnt even have to file a claim in court in the end. My result was beyond anything I believed was possible even with a proper lawyer who actually cared about me and my case I never thought what I achieved was possible. But I did it.  The key to winning I thnk was keeping  good records of everything, I always keep every little piece of paper and everything else just in case and also beleving in myself in that the logic I wold see in my situation was real and that everything I was being told or led to believe contradicted logic and therefore I doesnt matter who is saying it, if it defies logic, its wrong.

- Everyone should know that in my experience Josh Mennen and his conduct and advice as a lawyer was a complete and shameful disgrace on his part. The only reason he isnt embarrassed and begging people for fogivness is because he is a liar and a fraud and because he has so well created and established an public image for himself as a good guy and soldier out there battling evil for all the victims of the corrupt insurance and financial industry. Nothing could be further from the truth. He is much more like the False Prophet if you ask me, on his white horse, leading everyone astray. I strongly believe that all of Josh Mennen's activities as a lawyer are very carefully and strategically conducted. I belive he has alteriior motives in everything he does and wants people to see, especially in the cases he does choose to accept and puts all his resources into winning. I thnk those cases and those wins are only for his benefit and nothing else, least of all his own client. I dont know why he behaves this way, maybe he wants to impress the financial and insurance interests he pretends to fight against to lure them over and become his clients in the future. Maybe he has actually been working for those interests secretly the entire time, a double agent if you like, and he has positioned himself where he has a very large degree of control over the types of stories the media ends up reporting on or not but more importantly he can be one of the key people responsible for shaping and directing the investigatons, outcomes and reforms of the  new law being developed which governs these  corporate interests setting it up to benefit them all over again while pretending its fairer and now transaprent for all normal people just like me, and in general the public feels like something has really been done to mae evetything fairer and just for us all when in fact its a charade, its a farse, everything inclding the royal commission is like an act on a stage for all of our benefit to believe we live in a fair system when in fact the complete opposite is the truth and everything has only been left the same or made worse for us all. I stress and ask everyone who reads this to note that everything I have said in this paragraph is pure speculation on my part. I dont know any of this to be actually true and I can't prove any of it. But I believe it myself from what I know within myself from my entire experience and life. Absolutely I believe it.

- I would enourage everyone to think independantly, do your own investigations, believe in your own assessments and make your own conclusions. Just as I have and my proof for myself is that I defied them all and I am no one but I won!