Heenans Solicitors - advice please

jacobia

I have just received by recorded delivery a letter from Heenans Solicitors ( M Heenan - Non Practising ) regarding I should contact them at my earliest convenience about a balance that they hold on their client account regarding a house purchase that was mad back in 2005. The headed letter states Heenans Solicitors and above the date states NO LONGER PRACTISING. I will ring them on Monday but I smell something a little fishy here. Any advice.

Also to note at the bottom of the letter in small print it says : Sole practitioner - Michelle Heenan ( non practising ) regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No 442713.

If she is not practising then how can she be the sole practitioner????

Also why is she regulated if she is not practicing????

Help appreciated

Hippychick

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/choosingandusing/findasolicitor/action=lawfirmsearch.law

She appears to be registered with the law society, are they based in Daventry? I am sure I have heard of Heenans before...

Maybe ring them and find out what it's about perhaps a balance was left on your account and they owe you money, if they are winding up the business perhaps they are reconciling old accounts.

zzzLazyDaisy

First - did you use Heenans solicitors when you purchased a house in 2005?

If not, then I wouldn't contact them since clearly this is nothing to do with you.

If you did, but still have doubts, you can always check them out with the Law Society.

seabright

It's probably just a firm that's closing down (hence its owner is non-practising) where they are trying to repay all the little bits of left over cash that they are holding on client account from old cases.

When you do a compeltion statement for clients you quite often have to estimate costs such as search fees and apportionments of service charges, as you don't have the exact figure available when doing the statement, therefore at the end of transaction there's either a bit left over or a bit owing.

Obviously in a perfect world you either repay the balance or ask for the outstanding immediatly, but sometimes stuff gets missed, and that may well be what's happened here.