To: jckc@jamescorbettkc.com
From: angie.brooks@pension-life.com
Dear Mr. Corbett
Firstly, may I congratulate you on your unbelievable recent recovery from “ill health”. It is understood that your condition had been so debilitating that it prevented you from publishing your determination against Quilter International and Friends Provident International in June 2026.
I am sure your family must be delighted that you went from being too sick to finish proof-reading the determination, to leaping back into the saddle with not just one law practice – but three!
The families of the 19 victims of Quilter and FPI who have died since this trial started, are not so delighted. They are rightly distraught that justice has been so cruelly denied. The other 720 claimants who were victims of the defendants are just as horrified.
From 11.07.2025 until your shocking resignation in June 2026, you had made repeated promises (more than 12 to my knowledge) about the due date for publication of your determination. All of which you broke.
Obviously, your astonishing resignation in June 2026 left all the victims of Quilter and FPI reeling with disgust. But this was followed up by the even more incredible announcement that – within a month – you announced your renewed ventures with 2 New Street Chambers in Leicester and Albert Wolff Chambers in Perth, Western Australia. And these two highly demanding and challenging roles have been taken on as add-ons to your existing practice at JCKC Law in St. Helier, Jersey.
There is, naturally, widespread suspicion of foul play here. Corruption, blackmail and bribery have been frequently mentioned. Nobody believes that one minute you were too ill to finish dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on your draft decision, and the next minute you are back in full swing with three different law practices – spread across the globe.
I invite you to provide public full disclosure on why you really failed to finish the judgement (against Quilter and FPI).
Obviously, it is 99.99% certain that you will either ignore this request – or tell me to bugger off. (But I cling to the remote chance that you do have a shred of decency and compassion for Quilter’s and FPI’s 739 victims). So, I invite you to provide an honest explanation as to what really happened with your conclusion to this important case.
Just to refresh your memory as to what the defendants did to their victims (not just the 739 represented by Signature Litigation, but many thousands more) – here is a summary:
- Provided a worthless, useless product – the “insurance bond” (aka “offshore bond”) – whose only purpose was to fuel the vast and fraudulent commission machine
- Facilitated investment fraud on a vast scale
- Accepted business from known, repeat scammers with no license (or qualifications) to provide investment advice
- Paid undisclosed commissions of 7% and more (often much more) to the scammers for the insurance bonds
- Offered high-risk, high-commission, illiquid, speculative, toxic assets on their investment platforms
- Carried out no due diligence or even basic back-of-a-fag-packet checks on the investments
- Allowed unregulated, high-risk investments (only suitable for professional or reckless investors) for low-risk, retail investors
- Accepted investment instructions into the insurance bonds with forged client signatures
- Acted on clearly irresponsible investment instructions in the full knowledge that the scammers would earn eye-watering undisclosed commissions (i.e. facilitating fraud)
- Continued taking their exorbitant charges long after the victims’ portfolios were worthless
As you are a qualified lawyer and barrister, you should know that undisclosed commissions clearly constitute fraud. And the defendants in this case were perfectly aware of this fraud – and yet they were more than happy to facilitate and profit from it. Repeatedly. For years. Ruining thousands of lives.
Insurance bonds aren’t just rotten, expensive, inflexible, toxic products which walk out of the door with the customers. They are kept “in house” by the perpetrators. The investments/disinvestments are recorded by the defendants themselves. So they report the irresponsible investments and the appalling losses. Repeatedly. For years.
Most important of all – the defendants had the power, responsibility and moral obligation to stop these fraudulent investments. They could – and should – have prevented them. But, of course, the defendants need the scammers to keep the highly-profitable business of ruining thousands of lives rolling in.
But YOU could – and should – have found the defendants liable for the victims’ appalling losses in the Isle of Man trial.
Maybe we will never know whether your almost-finished judgement had been in favour of the victims or the perpetrators. But it doesn’t take a genius to work out that had your judgement been in favour of the defendants, then publishing it – however poorly you were feeling – shouldn’t have been too taxing. Crossing the two t’s and two i’s in “misrepresentation” could have been done without leaving your sick bed.
Conversely, had your judgement been in favour of the victims, then you would have been jolly unpopular with the defendants. Even more so with the scammers. And all of them could have made your life somewhat “uncomfortable”. And maybe even caused you some real “ill health”.
Finally, let me appeal to your sense of justice and decency. The defendants in this matter caused poverty, immense human suffering and death to more than 700 victims. And that was just this one particular matter. There are many thousands of similar victims out there – all over the World.
Your failure to help bring these defendants to justice – and to facilitate the compensation that the victims deserve – mark a historic and disgraceful defeat of the whole purpose of the legal system (not just in the Isle of Man but also worldwide).
It is not unreasonable to compare the collapse of this case against Quilter and FPI to the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal. The public enquiry headed up by Sir Wynn Williams revealed a spectacularly sickening failure in governance and also the justice system – on so many different levels. And the Quilter/FPI case over which you presided exposes the Isle of Man as the heart of a sickening international fraud that your resignation has rewarded rather than condemned.
Your UK-based law firm – JCKC Law – describes itself as “innovative, progressive and (save in exceptional circumstances) conflict-free”. So I wonder whether, at the last minute (during your year of repeatedly promising to deliver your determination) you found yourself “conflicted” in some way?
In the wake of your shocking resignation – if you want to be taken seriously as a barrister and a judge (as well as a decent human being) – you should publicly explain your shocking resignation. A person in your position needs to demonstrate the highest possible ethics, morals and impartiality.
I am afraid your “story” just doesn’t stack up: a year’s worth of more than a dozen broken promises; followed by an abrupt resignation on the grounds of alleged ill health. Then a month later a high profile announcement of your two new very demanding jobs in England and Australia – on top of your existing law practice in Jersey.
Quite frankly – nobody believes any of this. Your credibility as a legal professional is shot to pieces. You have betrayed 739 victims of Quilter International and Friends Provident International. Along with their respective families (many of whom are grieving for their deceased loved ones).
I would love to hear from you – as would thousands of victims of Quilter International and Friends Provident International. Many of these fraud victims are desperate – having lost a lifetime’s retirement savings. Some are dying and many are suicidal. So, when your busy and lucrative work schedule allows, drop me a line with a credible explanation?
Regards, Angela Brooks
Pension Life Administration SL
