Warning - do not use wolstenholmes solicitors

DIZZY11_3

Does anyone know how I could try and get my £450 deposit back? Do I need to make a complaint first?

Simply_Me_2

DIZZY11 wrote: »

Does anyone know how I could try and get my £450 deposit back? Do I need to make a complaint first?

If the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have truly intervened then you will need to file a complaint with them and the Legal Complaints Office, if there is enough money left in the accounts to pay everyone then you may get your money back if not then you will either have to take out a civil action against the members of the firm or try and claim from the Solcitors Compensation Fund.

Is anyone else had their mortgage company withold or withdraw their mortgage offer?

bluesnorky

After much perseverance after nearly losing our house on what should have been a very straightforward sale I have actually got my fee back after heaps of complaints in writing and phone and email and sending photocopied evidence.:j

cakinwande

adam123456 wrote: »

Wolstenholmes havent even paid some off there staff salary for the month of december 2009 !!!!!!!!! Due to the sra have frozen the accounts ................ What a joke !!!!!!!!!!!!!

You were willing to defend WH's actions earlier on and now the shoe is on the other foot, you are annoyed?! You knew what was going on this whole time and your concience never told you to report this before thousands of people were robbed and left homeless?!

As I said in an earlier post, KARMA IS A BI**H.

loveandlight

I think the whole legal profession is badly in need of a shake up not just this particular firm. Most of the bad law firms get away with it because the profession in general has such a monopoly on a lot of legal work thanks to historical rights and laws.

The whole profession is due to change in the next year or so due to major changes in who can set themselves up in business. This competition should drive up standards as solicitors will then be forced to compete for business like the rest of us.

I think the introducing company has a lot to answer for. I used them and they gave me another law firm and their service was just as appalling and the person handling my file wasn't even a solicitor even though she told me in writing she was. When we eventually moved house I was sick for two weeks with the stress of how bad my conveyancing firm was. Next time I will go for the middle of the road price. Not too cheap and not too expensive.

The SRA couldn't care less and the solicitors are fighting like mad to keep the monopolies they have on their work as much as poss but the public nowadays will not put up with bad service anymore so law firms will have to change soon for the better whether they like it or not.

edgworth

Yet another unsatisfied customer I'm afraid having paid a £300 deposit and missed the completion date of 18th of Dec. I have now gone on to another solicitor and am more than happy to pay the extra few hundred pounds.
Can anyone give precise details of how I claim my deposit back? Will the credit card company assist at all?
My sincere comiserations to all who have big money outstanding to these people and or may lose the sale or purchase of their property.
Happy new year may not be the most appropriate thing to say but all the best anyway!

sloughflint

November 2009....

adam123456 wrote: »

I think wolstenholmes are great they have excellent customer services and provide an excellent service, i had all my calls returned, they are a sucessful company everyone has there own opinions, they have excellent lawyers who can provide regular feedback !!!! Best lawyers ever

December 2009....

adam123456 wrote: »

No wolstenholmes have not gone into liquidation - they have experienced technical difficulties with the telephones lines and computers

and then....:

adam123456 wrote: »

Wolstenholmes havent even paid some off there staff salary for the month of december 2009 !!!!!!!!! Due to the sra have frozen the accounts ................ What a joke !!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Naughty naughty SRA.


Actually what took them so long?

Catwoman8950

sloughflint wrote: »

November 2009....

December 2009....


and then....:


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Naughty naughty SRA.


Actually what took them so long?

If they had acted only a few days earlier then they would have been able to gain access to the premises! If the SRA are indeed carrying out a full intervention then the consequences for WH will be dire but we, as clients, will be protected as far as our files and money are concerned.

Has anyone been able to connect to the SRA website over the past couple of days? It seems to be down.

Simply_Me_2

Catwoman8950 wrote: »

If they had acted only a few days earlier then they would have been able to gain access to the premises! If the SRA are indeed carrying out a full intervention then the consequences for WH will be dire but we, as clients, will be protected as far as our files and money are concerned.

Has anyone been able to connect to the SRA website over the past couple of days? It seems to be down.

You are quite right, something wrong there. Probably inundated with complaints.
I was on it Boxing day night and it was working then but not now, strange.

loveandlight

posted by Simply Me
Probably inundated with complaints.

Now that was funny! :rotfl: