EXCLUSIVEFurious car owners say they have been 'ripped off twice' by 'greedy' lawyers and 告発する/非難する them of 'daylight 強盗' after 合法的な 会社/堅い's small print 'error' saw 料金s to を取り引きする 'dieselgate' 放出/発行s スキャンダル (人命などを)奪う,主張するs 急に上がる by 15% for millions

Furious car owners (人命などを)奪う,主張する they have been 'ripped off twice' after 'greedy' lawyers told them they would be taking a bigger slice of 補償(金) 支払い(額)s over the 'dieselgate' 放出/発行s スキャンダル.

主要な class 活動/戦闘 法律 会社/堅い Pogust Goodhead were (刑事)被告 of 'daylight 強盗' after 発表するing a mistake in the small print meant claimants would be 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d 料金s of 50 per cent rather than the 35 per cent 明言する/公表するd in paperwork.

The 会社/堅い sent an email to 1.8 million (弁護士の)依頼人s who had 調印するd up to its My ディーゼル (人命などを)奪う,主張する website 非難するing 'a typographical error' for the discrepancy.

It led to an angry (激しい)反発 from 運転者s 告訴するing car 製造者s for 恐らく deceiving them over 放出/発行s 基準s which they say 減ずるd the value of their cars by thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs.

The firm offered drivers the chance of receiving up to £10,000 compensation in their diesel emissions fraud claims (stock image)

The 会社/堅い 申し込む/申し出d drivers the chance of receiving up to £10,000 補償(金) in their ディーゼル 放出/発行s 詐欺 (人命などを)奪う,主張するs (在庫/株 image)

Leading class action law firm Pogust Goodhead were accused of 'daylight robbery'

主要な class 活動/戦闘 法律 会社/堅い Pogust Goodhead were (刑事)被告 of 'daylight 強盗'

Many 抗議するd they had 調印するd up with My ディーゼル (人命などを)奪う,主張する under the 初めの 条件 when the website 開始する,打ち上げるd in 2021 while others were 誘惑するd in by a 一連の TV adverts 含むing one 目的(とする)d at England fans during the 2022 World Cup 決勝戦.

Millions of drivers who owned or 賃貸し(する)d a ディーゼル 乗り物 between 2009 and 2020 were 勧めるd to 調印する up for the 'no 勝利,勝つ no 料金' group litigation after car 製造業者s were (刑事)被告 of fitting '敗北・負かす 装置s' in their 乗り物s to cheat 放出/発行s 実験(する)s.

What is?Dieselgate??

The Volkswagen 放出/発行s スキャンダル, known as Dieselgate, began in 20 15 and 伴う/関わるd around 11million cars 世界的な and 1.2million the UK.

The UK class 活動/戦闘 surrounds the fact that drivers paid a 賞与金 price for what they thought were clean ディーゼル cars.

In fact 放出/発行s of NOx gases ? a combination of the 汚染物s 窒素 酸化物 and 窒素 二酸化物 ? were far higher than the company 明言する/公表するd.

NOx gas 放出/発行s are associated with, の中で other things, childhood 喘息 and are linked to 23,000 premature deaths every year in the UK.

Lawyers 代表するing around 90,000 UK 運転者s (人命などを)奪う,主張する the German car 巨大(な) 'cheated' European 放出/発行s 基準s by 任命する/導入するing unlawful '敗北・負かす 装置s' in its ディーゼル 乗り物s.

It is (人命などを)奪う,主張するd the 装置s were able to (悪事,秘密などを)発見する when 乗り物s were 存在 実験(する)d, 許すing the engine to 減ずる NOx 放出/発行s under 実験(する) 条件s.

Though the 乗り物s passed European 放出/発行s 基準s, lawyers say the 乗り物s were emitting up to 40 times the 合法的な 限界 of 窒素 二酸化物 when out on the road.

The 影響 of the スキャンダル has seen VW 支払う/賃金 out more than 30 billion euros (£26 billion) in 罰金s, 解任する costs and civil 解決/入植地s.

It has also led to 犯罪の 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s by German 検察官,検事s against 現在の and former 上級の 従業員s.

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The 会社/堅い 申し込む/申し出d drivers the chance of receiving up to £10,000 補償(金) in their ディーゼル 放出/発行s 詐欺 (人命などを)奪う,主張するs.

Up to two million people are thought to have 調印するd up with the 会社/堅い but a number 主張するd they were cancelling their (人命などを)奪う,主張するs after receiving the late-night email.

令状ing on X, 以前は Twitter, Toni Bennett said that after receiving the email she told the 会社/堅い she did not want to go ahead with the (人命などを)奪う,主張する but 追加するd: 'They phoned 説 it's already gone to the final 行う/開催する/段階.'.

Another (弁護士の)依頼人 Adrian O'Shea said': 'A bunch of money grabbing clowns. Their 初期の 削減(する) was 35 per cent, now they are (人命などを)奪う,主張するing a typo and should have read 50 per cent and an admin 料金… so is more their ディーゼル (人命などを)奪う,主張する than ours.'

Emma Smith 追加するd: 'How can they do this after we all 調印するd 契約s? Surely they can't 合法的に change it retrospectively?'

Another claimant wrote: 'Have just received the same email. Feeling very much like I'm 存在 conned.

'Only chose them because they 引用するd 35 per cent. We entered into an 協定 at 35 per cent. Is this 合法的な? It's certainly not moral.'

After receiving the email, Carrie Ridley wrote on the 会社/堅い's Facebook page: '絶対 abysmal - now wanting 50 per cent instead of the 初めの 35 per cent.

'A typo from 合法的な company. On the keyboard the three is nowhere 近づく a 無. Just pure greed.

'I have sent an email to 監視者 and encourage others to do it too.'

Paul Hulme wrote: 'So having 調印するd up lots of people they are now trying to move the goalposts.'

Others took to Trustpilot to 宿泊する scathing reviews with one 告発する/非難するing the 会社/堅い of 'daylight 強盗' over their 'extortionate and gre edy' 料金s.

Paul Nicholson wrote: 'I received an email out of the blue after 供給するing 包括的な (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状).

'I 初めは agreed to a 35 per cent (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 料金 now 存在 advised it was an oversight and they're changing it to 50 per cent.

One 原告,告訴人 wrote: 'It beggars belief the 増加するd 35 per cent 料金s now 発表するd could be a typo which went unnoticed from months ago when it's a 根底となる element of their 条件 and 条件s.

'完全にする opportunistic greed more likely. I've dropped the (人命などを)奪う,主張する, you may get 攻撃する,衝突する with other undeclared 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s later so it's just not 価値(がある) the 危険.'

Another (弁護士の)依頼人 said: 'I started my ディーゼル (人命などを)奪う,主張する with this company over two years ago 予定 to the adverts on TV. I like many others have received an email 明言する/公表するing mistakes in the 初めの 契約 re 料金s and their 料金 cap now 増加するd by 15 per cent.

'I only took this on because I thought I had nothing to lose on a no 勝利,勝つ no 料金. I'm now not believing this company is real.'

The email was sent out last June but (弁護士の)依頼人s have continued to complain they have been inundated with email requests for the same (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) 'again and again' while 存在 flooded with unsolicited calls and poor 顧客 services.

Some have come from people who (人命などを)奪う,主張するd they pulled out of the 活動/戦闘 after discovering how much their lawyers would be raking in.

Pogust Goodhead has a three out of five 率ing on Trustpilot which 含むs a number of 肯定的な reviews while (民事の)告訴s are dealt with by requests to 株 その上の 詳細(に述べる)s 個人として.

The 会社/堅い does not 答える/応じる to a My ディーゼル (人命などを)奪う,主張する profile which has 94 per cent one-星/主役にする reviews out of a total of 388.

The MoneySavingExpert website 最高潮の場面s how the 広大な 大多数 of ディーゼル 放出/発行 claimants have 調印するd up with Pogust Goodhead - one of six 法律 会社/堅いs 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d on the website as working on (人命などを)奪う,主張するs and 受託するing new 調印する ups.

One other 会社/堅い, Johnson 法律 Group which has 200,000 (弁護士の)依頼人s, is also 非難する 最大限 料金s of 50 per cent while the others 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 lower basic 率s.

The 会社/堅い Leigh Day, which 代表するs 280,000 (弁護士の)依頼人s, 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s 料金s between 30 and 35 per cent.

The 'dieselgate' スキャンダル was first 暴露するd in 2015 when it 現れるd that Volkswagen had 任命する/導入するd ソフトウェア designed to deceive 公式の/役人 実験(する)ing, 減ずるing 汚染するing 放出/発行s in 研究室/実験室 条件s that were not matched by real world 運動ing.

In 2022 VW agreed to 支払う/賃金 £193million to more than 90,000 運転者s after a 目印 (人命などを)奪う,主張する.

The (人命などを)奪う,主張する, which lawyers said would have been the biggest ever brought by a group of 消費者s in the UK, was 予定 to go to 裁判,公判 before the German car 巨大(な) 発表するd an out of 法廷,裁判所 解決/入植地.

The 'dieselgate' scandal was first uncovered in 2015 when it emerged that Volkswagen had installed software designed to deceive official testing (stock image)

The 'dieselgate' スキャンダル was first 暴露するd in 2015 when it 現れるd that Volkswagen had 任命する/導入するd ソフトウェア designed to deceive 公式の/役人 実験(する)ing (在庫/株 image)

活動/戦闘s are now 存在 追求するd against a number of 主要な 乗り物 製造業者s.

Last month ,the High 法廷,裁判所 支配するd that 合法的な (人命などを)奪う,主張するs against Mercedes, Ford, Nissan Renault and Peugeot Citro?n will go ahead in October 2025.

A その上の 裁判,公判 is 推定する/予想するd in Spring 2026.

製造業者s 公約するd to vigorously defend (人命などを)奪う,主張するs.

A spokesperson for mydieselclaim said: 'In June 2023 MyDieselClaim (弁護士の)依頼人s were 接触するd to explain an error that had been made in the small print of our 条件付きの 料金 協定s.

'This typographical error was spotted and so it was our 義務 to 知らせる our (弁護士の)依頼人s of this.

'A small number of (弁護士の)依頼人s brought this to the attention of our (民事の)告訴s team and these were all 解決するd.

'We have also 満足させるd the Solicitors 規則 当局 and the 合法的な Ombudsman in relation to these queries.

'To date, the 合法的な Ombudsman has not upheld any (民事の)告訴s against us.

'We 高く評価する/(相場などが)上がる that the 合法的な 過程 for mydieselclaim (弁護士の)依頼人s, and indeed (弁護士の)依頼人s of all 法律 会社/堅いs 伴う/関わるd in 持つ/拘留するing these car companies to account, is 非常に長い and we understand that is 失望させるing.

'Group litigation of this 肉親,親類d has to follow a 合法的な 過程 which can feel 長引かせるd.

'The High 法廷,裁判所, which is 取引,協定ing with all the 放出/発行s 事例/患者s, has recently 発表するd a much more 積極的な 時刻表/予定表, so we are 希望に満ちた that this will bring about swifter 決意/決議s for our (弁護士の)依頼人s.

'最終的に it is time for all car companies that cheated 放出/発行s 実験(する)s to do the 権利 thing by drivers who bought their cars in good 約束 and 申し込む/申し出 them fair 補償(金).'