Warning - do not use wolstenholmes solicitors

Horrified_Solicitor

shocked_solicitor wrote: »

if your file has gone missing Wolstenholmes can be fined and forced to reproduce missing documents where possible. The SRA will have to do that. Contact DWF in the first instance - if they do not have the file try Sterling as i suspect they will have it. Give them 7 days in which to confirm possession and get your file to you or report them to the SRA.

Excellent advice. Putting my hat on from when I used to prosecute for CPS, I suggest that if Sterling do not respond, then tell them that you are reporting them to the police for receiving stolen goods. Solicitors are more frightened of the police than the SRA.

brbrwilde

When I went to the Heald Green Office on the 15th December, to collect my documents there was a white van outside that was being loaded up with lots of files, that was before they closed the office so called for xmas, that made wonder what was going on then.

shocked_solicitor

The grant will be recoverable and the share certificates can be traced if you know which companies they were with - the personal stuff I am sorry to hear about - lets hope that other posts are correct that Stirling have been ordered to send files to DWF. Give DWF time - interventions take a huge amount of time - they will get back to you - they will be reputable as the SRA would not have instructed them so hang in there!!
Best of luck - I hope it works out for you

Catwoman8950 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. Another poster says that Stirling Law has been ordered to send all the Wolstenholmes files to DWF. I did contact DWF by e-mail already and they have ackowledged receipt but have not answered me as such. The important documents in my file are the Grant of Letters of Administration and some share certificates which were being transferred into my name. I cannot even trace these because all the info concering the shares are in Wolstenholmes file. In addition there are some papers relating to my late mother which are personal to me and I wanted to have them back. On top of that, WH still owe me a considerable amount of money. I have not even received the final Estate Accounts and I just hope that DWF will be able to sort out the financial mess.

No, HM did not act for me. My solicitor left Wolstenholmes at the end of October and I was appointed another one, but not HM. I had precisely one phone call and three e-mails from her, and then total silence.

I also have a property to sell but fortunately took it out of their hands and instructed a new firm of solicitors in November, leaving WH to finalise the probate. I wish I had taken the whole lot out of their hands now.

An added problem for me is that I am not resident in the U.K. but another European (EU) country.

brbrwilde

They closed the office on the 18th december

nervousbreakdown

Does anyone know anything about Minster Law? I panicked when I found out about WH as we will be homeless if we do not complete by 15th Feb and now have to start from scratch got straight onto the internet and found these people. I hadn't read this forum by then, having only found it today, and am know panicking that I have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire!

Catwoman8950

brbrwilde wrote: »

When I went to the Heald Green Office on the 15th December, to collect my documents there was a white van outside that was being loaded up with lots of files, that was before they closed the office so called for xmas, that made wonder what was going on then.

What you are saying ties up with the information I have. I imagine the files were being transferred to Stirling Law on that day. This in itself was illegal because a solicitor is not allowed to transfer your file to another firm without your permission.

Horrified_Solicitor

nervousbreakdown wrote: »

Does anyone know anything about Minster Law? I panicked when I found out about WH as we will be homeless if we do not complete by 15th Feb and now have to start from scratch got straight onto the internet and found these people. I hadn't read this forum by then, having only found it today, and am know panicking that I have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire!

Bearing in mind that there seems to be a question mark as to whether half these firms on the internet exist at all, let alone whether they are reputable solicitors, why don't you ask friends to recommend a local solicitor to you? You'd be much better off with someone local and reputable. Not only that, you'd probably find it cheaper than some of these firms who give wholly misleading quotes and then charge whole lot of extras.

Cheapo conveyancing on the internet is on a par with Viagra ads and offers of penis extensions.

anxious_24

thanks to shocked solicitor onto dwf now ,getting back to me soon thankyou:A

shocked_solicitor

glad to have been of help anxious 24 hope it all works out for you

shocked_solicitor

Horrified_Solicitor wrote: »

Cheapo conveyancing on the internet is on a par with Viagra ads and offers of penis extensions.

very nice comparison Horrified bearing in mind the people that provide this so called service are DICKS!!!
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