Undisclosed issues during conveyancing

Sophie_C

Hello - can anyone help me? What redress is there if a house owner does not disclose that there is a dispute between their bisiting father and me over an alleged resulting personal injury over an alleged dangerous step with alleged poor lighting. It turns out the PI solicitor was instructed in the early January and they wrote to me a few days after they sold the house mid February. The new owner is a frail elderly lady who has shown me the conveyancing as clear and is so outraged she has made a statement for my solicitor to say it is neither poorly lit nor unsafe. The claimant also happened to be made redundant the same week and had the accident 18 months before but never mentioned it to me.

Thank you.

poppysarah

Who is suing who?

Evilm

The claimant should be pursuing the person who owned the property at the time of the accident and not you. Allowing you to be pursued for this would be like buying a car and being charged with an accident that happened a year before you bought it!

All you should have to do is provide the document saying when you bought the property and it will no longer be your problem. Its not nice for the elderly lady to have to deal with it but that isn't really your problem.

smartpicture

I'm completely baffled here, who owns the house now and at the time of the accident, who had the accident, who's suing who? I think you need to explain the situation a lot more clearly.

googler

I'm totally lost too.

OP, please re-word it so we can tell who's who.

lincroft1710

So I'm not the only one who finds it difficult to understand the post, "bisiting" got me wondering until I looked at my keyboard and realised it's a typo for "visiting".

keith969

Sophie_C wrote: »

Hello - can anyone help me? What redress is there if a house owner does not disclose that there is a dispute between their bisiting father and me over an alleged resulting personal injury over an alleged dangerous step with alleged poor lighting. It turns out the PI solicitor was instructed in the early January and they wrote to me a few days after they sold the house mid February. The new owner is a frail elderly lady who has shown me the conveyancing as clear and is so outraged she has made a statement for my solicitor to say it is neither poorly lit nor unsafe. The claimant also happened to be made redundant the same week and had the accident 18 months before but never mentioned it to me.

Thank you.

I think even Inspector Poirot would have a hard time understanding this!

Who was the house owner? And what is your relationship (if any) with the houseowner?

Who had the injury - the house owner's father, you or some other person?

What's a PI solicitor? Who are they acting for? And why did they write to you?

Why is the elderly lady so upset that she's got a well lit safe step?

Who is the claimant you are talking about? And what's the relevance of them being made redundant?

Richard_Webster

Completely agree with all the other posts since the first one. Can't advise unless we know what the issue really is.

Please spell it out one step at a time.