FORMER deputy Tony Webber wants a public fighting fund set up to save his financial services company. He has lost in his latest attempt to have his case heard by the Royal Court after Jonathan Sumption, QC, said there was little or no chance of his case being successful.

A tribunal hearing in January 2007 had previously backed a Guernsey Financial Services Commission’s decision of May 2006 to revoke the licence of Canivet Webber Financial Services to act as an insurance intermediary.

A request for leave to appeal to the Privy Council was also turned down by Mr Sumption at the latest Court of Appeal hearing yesterday. ‘I’ve got to publicly appeal for the funds so that this can be fairly heard,’ said Mr Webber (pictured) after the hearing. ‘The commission does not want this appeal to be heard. Anyone interested in human rights and the commission acting fairly will understand my situation because there is a danger of it not going ahead because of my financial situation.’

The latest hearing saw Mr Webber unsuccessful in attempting to show that he should be exempt from having to provide assurances of security of costs for £12,000 ahead of a Royal Court appearance.