Solicitors requesting more moeny for typo error

Paul_the_Painter

I'd be inclined to point out that THEY have made a mistake, they have not provided plain ENGLISH reasons as to why they need this money, that they have managed to take 2 months to reply to your email, and that you would like someone to call and explain - in english - why this fee was not originally included in the original bill, why it has taken so long to reply to simple queries, and why they managed to make a typo in a letter apologising for making a typo.

Being lawyers you'll probably have to end up paying, but you should at least have a fun conversation

Keith

By the sound of it, there is a restriction on the title which means they need to provide a certificate to the registry that it has been complied with.

It's possible that this is to provide a notice of transfer/charge to your landlord but this could be another requirement.

If you don't pay, then they should do, as they are compelled by the CML to register your mortagee's interest.

However, if you don't pay they have a litigation department.

I do hope that's right, I took my last conveyancing exam last week!

Richard_Webster

One the one hand they should have found out about these fees before completion and included them in the amount they asked for.

On the other hand some managing agents (the people evidently asking for three lots of £54) are very difficult to deal with and it can be a pain getting the information about their fees out of them. In this kind of case I would warn my client before completion that there could be further fees later because of this factor.

If they got the figures right you would have had to have paid these amounts so you are better off at the moment by £114 than you would have been, so it isn't all the solicitor being awful, it is also potentially you taking advantage of their mistake. You have to be fair about and compromise. You could threaten to make a formal complaint to the solicitors about their conduct of the matter and offer to pay half.

RAS

Is this property in sole or joint ownership?

SmlSave

You'll probably see from your statement you originally got from the solciitors (or their T&C's) that errors and omissions are excepted to cover this sort of thing.

Unfortunatly these things happen and its up to you if you wish to complain about it to the solicitors. In the end though the solicitors aren't making any more money on this and they are trying to sort it out.

P.S I do think its cheeky that they want to charge you for an OS1 - even if it is only £4

Evilm

looks like they missed fees off when they quoted and completed originally. I was concerned at the odd amount but the second letter shows they still have an amount in their client account from you so that explained that.

I don't think you can get out of paying it unfortunately. Their T&Cs (as someone said above) will cover them for omissions such as this.