There is no shortage of civil lawyers professing civil-law expertise in fighting in the civil law system what they aver to be inheritance crime — and, moreover, invoking in their civil-practice marketing likely or actually imaginary offenses such as 'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hijacking' etc. We don't see the point of comprehensively misleading the actual or potential client in any or all of these ways. We are embarrassed at the thought of the civil lawyer trying to disentangle himself from multiple misapprehensions and reinstate himself in the good graces of a nonplussed client deliberately recruited on multiple false premises. 

This situation is especially pernicious since misguided victim heirs are likely to consult civil lawyers first on inheritance crime before they consult criminal lawyers. To fail to educate and disabuse the customer fully, and to confuse and dragoon him into the civil route on various deliberate misstatements, are not appropriate in any way.

So we are not persuaded that any civil lawyer is right for inheritance crime especially if he knows that he is not going to practise criminal law in the first place and is not equipped or inclined to correctly and properly advise on crime and criminal law, and also knows that the customer is now thoroughly confused.

MHNA believes that its first duty is to discourage civil lawyers soliciting civil business by inappropriately invoking crimes and criminal law and confusing the victim heir about the civil lawyer's practice, intentions, knowledge, capabilities and relevant differences between the civil and criminal law systems. 

There are legitimate ways for civil lawyers to get hired for civil work by victim heirs who have informedly chosen the civil system and have not been lured into it by irrelevancies and inaccuracies. There are accurate ways to describe inheritance-related actionable misconduct. Misdescribing it as criminal is not one of them. (Crime is crime, civil is civil, and they almost never intersect. Certainly they are never synonymous. Actionable misconduct is never criminal. Crime is almost never actionable.) 

We recognise the interface between actionable and criminal inheritance-related misconduct. The victim heir wishes to know his options in using the civil and or criminal law systems, concurrently and or consecutively. MHNA starts by educating civil lawyers about relevant crime law, practice, policy, procedure and process and the absolute professional impropriety of deliberately confusing and misleading actual and prospective customers. With MHNA's assistance, you can compare and contrast the two systems, with pellucidity and no prior misrepresentations, for yourself and your customer. And you can throw your false advertising in the trash.

MHNA considers that its second duty is to discourage the uninformed confused confusing not-credible civil lawyer from going anywhere near an inheritance crime case. Any inappropriate inner-office, back-office and or front-office attempt to interest law enforcement in any criminal case will almost certainly be particularly doomed; and so will be your bill for faking it. We smell malpractice, and your sabotage of the victim heir's official criminal grievance, a mile off.

MHNA sees its third duty as assisting informed clear-headed competent civil lawyers to competently and appropriately practise relevant criminal law if unavoidable, both directly and by interacting credibly and constructively with the specialist private and or public criminal lawyers having principal charge of the criminal case.

MHNA will enhance your legitimate inheritance crime-fighting civil practice. The genuine capability that you will acquire will be good for business, good for morale and good for your customers.

Inheritance crime-fighting is big business for law enforcement. Inheritance crime is under-reported to law enforcement because victims:-

• do not have the technical capability to recognise or articulate relevant crime

• do not have a ready local source of information or advice specifically on inheritance crime

• do not have confidence in law enforcement's expertise, experience, receptivity or availability: police and prosecutors, not esteemed for their clairvoyance or civil law prowess, are particularly notorious for fobbing off victim heirs at the outset with the multiply disreputable "It's a civil matter".

Inheritance crime is neglected by law enforcement because police and prosecutors:-

• do not have the required resources, expertise or experience

• are at a particular disadvantage in relation to highly technical, ordinarily undetectable inheritance crime, and inheritance crime committed by lawyers

• deprive themselves of exposure to cases: they prefer complex cases delivered to them on a plate — the very kind that requires and repays professional precision detective work. 

Being fully alive technically to all types of inheritance crime offers increasingly rich professional pickings to astute police and prosecutors. Inheritance crime is a rich source of court work and will repay detailed study, especially:-

• in relation to supposedly undetectable inheritance crime

• committed in plain view

• if committed by insider lawyers

• if committed by other insiders such as heirs

• if committed in organised ways by organised criminals

• if apparently all very challenging and tiresome to describe. 

Were police and prosecutors to genuinely have the requisite skills (instead of, in some cases, faking it, more or less obviously, to say nothing of "It's a civil matter" pretensions to civil law expertise), and were to be accessible, and were to become conspicuous locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, such a specialist community would dramatically undermine the environment and the ecosystem in which inheritance crime and criminals presently prosper.

MHNA's training will enhance your range of professional and personal skills, and enable you to fully do your job and your duty, with gratifying results.