ShareSoc endorses Leigh Day's Woodford legal claim

Launches Woodford campaign

David Brenchley
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The UK Individual Shareholders Society (ShareSoc) has launched a Woodford campaign aimed at helping investors seek compensation for their losses and has endorsed a legal action from Leigh Day.

ShareSoc said the primary objectives of its Woodford campaign were to claim compensation for investors, to hold those who contributed to investors' losses to account and to influence changes in regulations and regulatory enforcement to ensure another scandal does not occur. Director Cliff Weight said the not-for-profit organisation was "pleased that several legal initiatives have surfaced with the intention of investigating the matter and of seeking redress". HL 'has case to answer' in Woodford compensation claims - Slater and Gordon Weight said the society had been following all o...

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