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'''Heather Millgate''', a trained solicitor, was a director of private security company [[Global Open]]. She was also associated with the controversial private security firm [[Tokra]], set-up by undercover police officer [[Mark Kennedy]].<ref> Rob Evans, Amelia Hill, Paul Lewis and Patrick Kingsley [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/12/mark-kennedy-policeman-corporate-spy  Mark Kennedy: secret policeman's sideline as corporate spy] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 17/01/11</ref>
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'''Heather Mary Millgate''', a trained solicitor, was a director of private security company [[Global Open]]. She was also associated with the controversial private security firm [[Tokra]], set-up by undercover police officer [[Mark Kennedy]].<ref> Rob Evans, Amelia Hill, Paul Lewis and Patrick Kingsley [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/12/mark-kennedy-policeman-corporate-spy  Mark Kennedy: secret policeman's sideline as corporate spy] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 17/01/11</ref>
  
 
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Ms Millgate has now established a LLP with another solicitor, Ms Barbara Woodridge.<ref name="Campaigns Security"/> The company Millgate Woodbridge Ltd No.07261650 is registered to:
 
Ms Millgate has now established a LLP with another solicitor, Ms Barbara Woodridge.<ref name="Campaigns Security"/> The company Millgate Woodbridge Ltd No.07261650 is registered to:
  
11 Jacques Lane
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11 Jacques Lane<br/>
Clophill
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Clophill<br/>
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Bedfordshire<br/>
 
MK45 4BS<ref name="companies house">Companies House, [http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/2dfb347830b562cdf5f8ff870d291c0a/compdetails Millgate Woodbridge Limited] </ref>
 
MK45 4BS<ref name="companies house">Companies House, [http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/2dfb347830b562cdf5f8ff870d291c0a/compdetails Millgate Woodbridge Limited] </ref>
  
The company was registered on 21/05/2010 and its website on 28/12/2009,  www.millgates.com <ref name="Millgates"/>
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The company was registered on 21/05/2010 and its website on 28/12/2009,  www.millgates.com <ref name="Millgates"/> As of she was no longer a director of this company,<ref>[http://companycheck.co.uk/company/07261650 Millgate Woodbridge Ltd], ''CompanyCheck.co.uk'', accessed 8 December 2014.</ref> and her details removed from their website.<ref>[http://www.millgates.com/AboutUs.aspx About Us], Millgates Solicitors' Website, accessed 17 January 2011.</ref>
  
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
  
Millgate qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and specialises in all types of personal injury claims. She has a particularly keen interest in head/brain injury. She is associated with [[Headway]], the National Brain Injury charity.<ref name="Millgates">Millgates Solicitors' Website [http://millgates.com/Default.aspx Home ]accessed 17/01/11 </ref>
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Millgate qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and specialises in all types of personal injury claims. She has a particularly keen interest in head/brain injury. She is associated with [[Headway]], the National Brain Injury charity.<ref name="Millgates">[http://millgates.com/Default.aspx Home], Millgates Solicitors' Website, accessed 17 January 2011.</ref>
  
  

Revision as of 12:45, 9 December 2014

Heather Mary Millgate, a trained solicitor, was a director of private security company Global Open. She was also associated with the controversial private security firm Tokra, set-up by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy.[1]

Global Open

Director

Ms Heather Millgate was appointed to the board of directors of Global Open on 5 April 2008, where she acted as their solicitor and also provided her marketing expertise. She resigned her directorship of Global Open on 31 August 2008. Heather Millgate and Alison Leeming (a fellow director at Global Open) travelled to biotechnology conferences to promote to "forward intelligence provision" which is the mainstay of Global Open's services. [2] According to The Guardian, Global Open was set up in 2001 by Rod Leeming, a former Special Branch officer. The company keeps a "discreet watch" on protest groups for clients including E.ON.[3]

An article by The Guardian, dealing with the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy reveals information about the private security sector. After leaving the police,

In February 2010 – a month before resigning – Kennedy set up Tokra Limited, at an address in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Calling himself a logistics officer, Kennedy registered himself as sole director of the company. Intriguingly, the address he used is the work address of Heather Millgate, a solicitor specialising in personal injury, and a former director of Global Open, a private security firm.
In February last year, Millgate went from being a marketing manager to a director of Global Open. On 31 March, Tokra changed its address from Millgate's work address to one in Basingstoke. On 12 April, Kennedy applied for Tokra to be dissolved. Within a few days of that application, he resigned from the police. Tokra was finally dissolved on the 17 August. On 31 August, Millgate resigned as director of Global Open.[3]

Controversy

Global Open first came to public attention in 2007 when it was implicated in the case of Paul Mercer, a friend of the then Conservative shadow defence minister, Julian Lewis, who was exposed by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade of spying for the arms firm BAE.[3] [4]

Subsequent Companies

Private Security Firm Tokra

Tokra was set-up by undercover officer Mark Kennedy (aka Mark Stone). The public debate generated by his uncovering as a police spy has been further complicated by his involvement with the private security sector. Tokra is linked to Global Open, whose client list features energy company E.ON.

Tokra Ltd, established 09/02/2010, was registered to Millgate's current business address:

36 Orchard Drive Linslade Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 2PL[2]

On 13/03/2010, the address was changed to:

Tokra Ltd Suite 2029 6, Slington House Rannkine Road Basingstoke RG24 8PH[2]


Tokra Ltd was wound up on 17/08/2010.[2]

Solicitors' practice

Ms Millgate has now established a LLP with another solicitor, Ms Barbara Woodridge.[2] The company Millgate Woodbridge Ltd No.07261650 is registered to:

11 Jacques Lane
Clophill
Bedfordshire
MK45 4BS[5]

The company was registered on 21/05/2010 and its website on 28/12/2009, www.millgates.com [6] As of she was no longer a director of this company,[7] and her details removed from their website.[8]

Biography

Millgate qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and specialises in all types of personal injury claims. She has a particularly keen interest in head/brain injury. She is associated with Headway, the National Brain Injury charity.[6]


Contact

Millgates
36 Orchard Drive
Linslade
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire LU7 2PL
Telephone: 01525 864820
Fax: 0845 5280595
Email: heather.millgate@millgates.com
website: http://millgates.com/Default.aspx[6]

Notes

  1. Rob Evans, Amelia Hill, Paul Lewis and Patrick Kingsley Mark Kennedy: secret policeman's sideline as corporate spy The Guardian, 13/01/11, accessed 17/01/11
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Campaigns Security Following the paper trail 16/01/11, accessed 17/01/11
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rob Evans, Amelia Hill, Paul Lewis and Patrick Kingsley Mark Kennedy: secret policeman's sideline as corporate spy The Guardian, 13/01/11, accessed 17/ 01/11
  4. Legal briefing, File:CAATvMercer-briefing.pdfCAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE v PAUL MERCER & LIGNEDEUX ASSOCIATES, Leigh Day & Co. 18 April 2007.
  5. Companies House, Millgate Woodbridge Limited
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Home, Millgates Solicitors' Website, accessed 17 January 2011.
  7. Millgate Woodbridge Ltd, CompanyCheck.co.uk, accessed 8 December 2014.
  8. About Us, Millgates Solicitors' Website, accessed 17 January 2011.