<div>1. I'm <strong>Richard J. Szrabe</strong>, a retired barrister (Middle Temple 1982-2009; <em>ad eundem</em> Lincoln's Inn; I <strong>retired in good standing</strong> 2009; in 2011 I changed my surname from Astor to Szrabe). You can see my photo and a summary of my background and foreground <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/the-author" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.
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<div>2. This <strong>socially important project</strong> — described in detail at Anatexis Media <a href="https://www.anatexis.media" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.anatexis.media" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.anatexis.media</a></a> — involves my personally writing and publishing a <strong>set of </strong><a href="https://www.anatexis.media/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>six books</strong></a>, and producing <strong>accompanying </strong><a href="https://www.anatexis.media/extras" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>multimedia, events</strong> etc</a>., on the fundamental human rights discussed in paragraph 8 below. Everything should be ready in the summer / fall of 2026. 
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<div>3. When the project has been launched and is thriving, I envisage setting up, in parallel with Anatexis Media, a <strong>charitable </strong><a href="https://www.anatexis.media/foundation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>foundation</strong></a> to spread the word about my work and directly help people.
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<div>4. All project products are intended for the <strong>general reader</strong> with no legal training as well as for the <strong>legal and technical professional,</strong> novice and senior alike: lay consumers of law services, testators and heirs, executors, administrators, lawyers, accountants, auditors, police, prosecutors, regulators, legislators, etc. In style, <strong>very user-friendly</strong>, instantly intelligible, intellectually stimulating and morally invigorating.
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<div>5. In content and intent, all project products are <strong>socially conscious</strong>, whistleblowing, culture-shifting and game-changing. Anyone can <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/collaborate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">collaborate</a> with me on content. The project as a whole and its various elements have an <strong>irresistible social momentum</strong> and message. Locally and globally, the books and associated multimedia and events have the power to generate genuine social change on key issues.
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<div>6. This gofundme invites you to <strong>help fund the project</strong>. Funds raised will be used to write, print, publish, produce, promote and sustain the <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/the-story" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">books</a>, ebooks and <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/extras" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">associated extras</a>. <strong>Principal expenses</strong> — how your donation will be spent — are summarised <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/donate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. You can find a <strong>summary of rewards</strong> for donors <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/donate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.
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<div>7. However small your intended or actual donation, I'm happy to explain the project to you personally and answer any questions you may have. I hope we'll have an interesting discussion. Why not <strong>arrange a Zoom call</strong> by emailing me. You can find my email address at the top of the <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">project's homepage</a> (gofundme policy is to not provide it here).
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<div>8. The project takes a long-overdue <strong>barristerial sledgehammer</strong> to four basic, universally violated <strong>human rights</strong>:-
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<div>(1) FIRST RIGHT: the right to not be defrauded by any lawyer, however clever, affable, eminent etc. This is dealt with by two books described below: <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/lawyer-rackets" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Lawyer Rackets</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/get-a-grip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Get A Grip</strong></a>;
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<div>(2) SECOND RIGHT: the right to receive one's inheritance in full without any lawyer, heir or administrator stealing, pillaging, sabotaging or interfering with any of it. This is dealt with by two books described below: <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/inheritance-crime" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Inheritance Crime</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/accounting" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Accounting and Auditing in Inheritance Crime</strong></a>;
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<div>(3) THIRD RIGHT: the right to investigate, expose, denounce and pursue any lawyer criminal, any inheritance criminal and anyone else who tries to suppress my freedom of speech, and — FOURTH RIGHT — the right to exercise that freedom of speech. This is dealt with by<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.anatexis.media/defamation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Defamation War Room</strong></a>, described below.
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<div>9. This project is of a thoroughly thought-through integrated piece with <strong>other things</strong> I've done and am doing:-
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<div>(1) <strong>specialist books</strong> I wrote and successfully self-published in my law career: see para 14 below;
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<div>(2) I run a small <a href="https://www.mrrigorous.pro" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">consulting firm</a> dedicated to <strong>helping real people</strong> with their daily problems, usually for free: <a href="https://www.MrRigorous.pro." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.MrRigorous.pro." target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.MrRigorous.pro.</a></a> It provides regular folk with a sounding board, advice, assistance etc. on things that worry them. It's an important way for a retired lawyer to 'give back' to the community. It particularly targets victimisation and other misconduct by lawyers, insurance companies, inheritance participants and bad banks;
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<div>(3) I run a <a href="https://www.inheritancecrime.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">consulting firm</a> dedicated to rooting out and criminalising <strong>inheritance crime</strong> for heirs and law enforcement. Its <a href="https://www.inheritancecrime.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website</a> has a mass of detail about the subject and how I deal with it.
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<div>10. The project involves self-publishing but is <strong>not vanity publishing</strong>. These are serious professional products intended for serious use in serious situations. The project has to stand on its own feet on its own merits, and acquire a genuine public.
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<div>11. Here are the six books' <strong>full titles</strong> — each has its own webpage:-
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<div>(1) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/criminal-law-companion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>CRIMINAL LAW COMPANION</strong></a><strong> </strong>: a summary of white-collar and stiff-collar criminal law;
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<div>(2) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/lawyer-rackets" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>LAWYER RACKETS—HOW YOUR OWN CROOKED LAWYER WILL SC</strong></a><strong>REW YOU IF HE CAN</strong> — grim whistleblowing tales from my own archive. The first comprehensive whistleblowing book by a retired lawyer, apparently;
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<div>(3) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/get-a-grip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>GET A GRIP—A PRIMER ON CUSTOMER-LAWYER INTERACTION</strong></a> — how to conduct a fruitful relationship and not get shafted by your own lawyer. The first detailed how-to guide for both sides;
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<div>(4) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/inheritance-crime" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I<strong>NHERITANCE CRIME—A MANUAL FOR HEIRS AND LAW ENFOR</strong></a><strong>CEMENT</strong> — a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry gets its first textbook;
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<div>(5) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/accounting" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING IN INHERITANCE CRIME</strong></a> — criminal financial statements and the folk who prepare them are the cornerstone of inheritance crime. The first textbook on the subject;
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<div>(6) <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/defamation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>DEFAMATION WAR ROOM</strong></a> — a popular + technical manual on how to stand your ground against threats to free speech. It promotes the unhindered, uninhibited, righteous exercise of free speech. Very relevant these days.
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<div>12. <strong>Why bother</strong>? Because billions of currency units are lost daily both to <strong>lawyer criminals</strong> and <strong>inheritance criminals</strong> (the two are often connected). And because there's a <strong>culture of victimhood</strong>: victims who might otherwise vociferously denounce and pursue lawyer criminality and inheritance criminality are <strong>intimidated into silence</strong> and inaction by the villains routinly threatening defamation litigation if lawfully exposed. (And of course a policeman with no knowledge of relevant civil law and no knowledge of the case will volunteer his irrefutable professional opinion, "It's a civil matter." How convenient.) All that has to stop.
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<div>13. <strong>Multimedia and other extras</strong> for the books include podcasts, webinars, enewsletter, events, videos, engagement, databases amd online communities, described <a href="https://www.anatexis.media/extras" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. I'm especially excited by this project's <strong>forthcoming events</strong>. The scandalous <strong>absence</strong> of any culture of regular folk mingling with each other and with appropriate relevant professionals on technical subjects contributes to victim isolation, facilitates mystification, and promotes and protects dysfunction:-
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<div>(1) on <strong>lawyer crime</strong>: imagine victims mingling with each other and with regulators, judges, police, prosecutors, journalists, real-deal lawyers, etc.;
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<div>(2) on <strong>inheritance crime</strong>: imagine testators, heirs, executors, administrators, police, prosecutors, lawyers, etc. mingling similarly;
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<div>(3) on <strong>righteous defamation litigation</strong> and other ways to express and defend <strong>free speech</strong>: we could have some real action here. Imagine righteous activists interacting vigorously with each other to talk about free speech generalities and specifics, and hanging with human rights lawyers, judges, journalists, investigators, detectives, defamation experts etc.
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<div>14. I have a <strong>respectable self-publishing track record</strong>. When in practice (latterly at 13 Old Square Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London), I specialised in (among other things) law and practice relating to the insurance and reinsurance enterprise Lloyd's of London, on which I wrote and successfully self-published technical books for lawyers. You can <strong>download two of those books</strong> for free from archive.org <a href="https://archive.org/details/ASTOREQUITASREHANDBOOK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> (and download <a href="https://archive.org/details/astorlloydsequitas/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> an ebook of collected articles I wrote on the subject in various professional periodicals). One of those books was particularly effective in helping certain American policyholders go after Lloyd's to the tune of billions of dollars. The book — <a href="https://archive.org/details/ASTOREQUITASREHANDBOOK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Astor's Equitas Re Handbook</a> — was morally and socially conscious, rather like all the six books in the present project.
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<div>15. Thanks for your interest in this important project, and for <strong>any donation</strong> you choose to make to enable it to happen.
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<div>Richard J. Szrabe
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