Is it reasonable for a solicitor to ask for more money a year after completion?

London_Town

Classy69 - thank you for explaining about how the SRA Report works - it actually makes a bit more sense to me now. What I had seen as shocking incompetence, sounds like standard practice based upon an audit of last years accounts. However, they clearly should have explained this in their letter. I will write to them, asking for an explanation.

KateLiana 27 - thank you - you make a good point about asking myself whether I would accept a cheque from them. I feel alot happier about paying now I can see where their request has probably come from. I just need them to elaborate, in writing, which they should have done in the first place.

BitterAndTwisted

It's a pure and simple accounting error. They obviously saw that charge on their bank-statement last year and someone in the back-office parked it somewhere in the accounts system to resolve later and didn't. It's much more straightforward to instruct someone to carry out a search, for example, and be able to identify which client's charge it is when it shows up on the statement. Not so simple for a bank charge as there could be dozens of them a week and the transactions all look the same.