The Choirboys’ Brad Carr and his brothers caught up in legal fight with Faye Greville

The man who co-wrote Aussie rock hit “Run to Paradise” and his brothers are embroiled in a hellish legal fight, accusing a solicitor of swindling them out of nearly $1.7 million.

The Choirboys guitarist Brad Carr and his two brothers say they have been ripped off by a lawyer who has tricked their family out of their inheritance and a Mosman home owned by their parents. Picture: David Swift

The man who co-wrote Aussie rock hit “Run to Paradise” and his brothers are embroiled in a hellish legal fight, accusing a solicitor of swindling them out of nearly $1.7 million.

The Choirboys’ lead guitarist Brad Carr and siblings Brett and Scott allege they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars – and ultimately their home – because of “fraud” by their late mother Joyce’s lawyer, Faye Greville.

Mrs Carr died in August 2017. Her will left her estate to her sons in equal shares. The estate included a mortgage-free house in Mosman in which the brothers lived together. Ms Greville became executor.

The following January, lawyers for Ms Greville had the Mosman property’s ownership transferred into her name, according to a statement of claim later filed in the NSW Supreme Court for Brett Carr, now the legal guardian for his brothers.

The claim said that in April 2018, Ms Greville caused a corporation, FLBS Pty Ltd, to be registered with her as sole director and shareholder.

Faye Greville. Picture: David Swift

Brad Carr claims Ms Greville has done wrong by him and his brothers. Picture: David Swift

FLBS became trustee of a new trust, whose major beneficiaries were Brad and Scott, along with The Wilderness Society.

The statement of claim said “the declaration of the (B & S) Trust was made without the knowledge and consent of the beneficiaries.”

Late in 2018, FLBS took out loans of $769,000 against the Mosman home. But it did not make repayments.

According to the statement of claim, filed in 2020, those debts were later paid out by larger loans.

None of the loan funds went to Brad or Scott.

The claim said “the beneficiaries have suffered loss and damage” totalling $977,535 in loans plus $645,000 worth of bank deposits that were not distributed to the trio due “to the fraud of the defendants,” Ms Greville and FLBS.

Brad Carr was part of the iconic band.

The brothers succeeded in removing Ms Greville from the title of the Mosman property and took over the loans.

In August 2020 the court ordered by consent that Ms Greville and FLBS pay $1.68m to Brett Carr, who had since become administrator of his mother’s estate.

But no money was received. So the brothers filed a claim with the Law Society of NSW’s Fidelity Fund, which compensates people due to dishonest or fraudulent acts by lawyers over trust money or property.

The claim was rejected because the fund’s committee found “Ms Greville took deliberate steps to separate her role as executor and trustee of the late Mrs Carr’s will, and later as director of FLBS Pty Ltd as trustee for the B & S Trust and when mortgaging the Mosman property, from her role as solicitor.”

Ms Greville twice told The Daily Telegraph she thought she “might have” done something wrong – but only because she had suffered brain damage from severe illness.

“I told (the brothers) I was sick,” she said.

However, she went on to add that if she had done something wrong, “why haven’t I been struck off (as a solicitor?)”

Ms Greville was also adamant that the brothers were “given their money back” by the Fidelity Fund.

She added that transferring the Mosman property into her name was not her idea and was done by her lawyer to avoid a conflict of interest.

The home had to be sold earlier this year because the brothers could not repay the loans.

Brad said the saga had caused him and his brothers a lot of “pain”.

“I was devastated when we left Mosman. It was a beautiful home,” he said.

Their new lawyer, John Kambas, said he would continue to fight for the brothers.

“I want justice for the boys,” Mr Kambas said.