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Right to obtain a copy of all paperwork held by the solicitor after a purchase?
Roselondon_2
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Hi,
We have been extremely unhappy with the current solicitor we used. We only found out his lay-back attitude (not even bothering to read the feedback from the vendor's solicitor) fairly late and therefore were not able to change before the deal finish.
The purchase was done last week. He sent us a letter saying he would post us the deed and also we were informed that the registration processs would take about 2 months time to finish.
The fear we have is: We so far recevied nothing from him in paper about this property we bought. All the information was only verbally briefed in a meeting with him before having exchanged the contract. (The exchange of contract had three furhter enquiries as conditions to the vendor's solicitor. He never told us what the answers he got from the other side are. While I raised question over one of those three enquiries, he simply said "Yes, of course. Otherwise, I wouldn't agree to exchange the contract." At that point, I really felt want to slap on his face...- I thought to inform your client is a very basic thing to provide service.)
Anyway, now we really want to keep the copies of all the paper/information he has obtained for this purchase as:
a) They would be useful to us to understand and plan for future extention/sales (in a long time)
b) We wouldn't want to use him again if we have any legal matter to deal with in the future. So perhaps better to keep documents ourself?
Then here comes the questions:
1. Is it normal or is it easy to justify this request? 2. What are the documents/information essential to be kept by ourselves?
3. Besides the deed, shall we ask anything else in original?
4. When is the best time to raise this request? The registration hasn't be done yet, I don't want to upset him yet...
Thank you.
We have been extremely unhappy with the current solicitor we used. We only found out his lay-back attitude (not even bothering to read the feedback from the vendor's solicitor) fairly late and therefore were not able to change before the deal finish.
The purchase was done last week. He sent us a letter saying he would post us the deed and also we were informed that the registration processs would take about 2 months time to finish.
The fear we have is: We so far recevied nothing from him in paper about this property we bought. All the information was only verbally briefed in a meeting with him before having exchanged the contract. (The exchange of contract had three furhter enquiries as conditions to the vendor's solicitor. He never told us what the answers he got from the other side are. While I raised question over one of those three enquiries, he simply said "Yes, of course. Otherwise, I wouldn't agree to exchange the contract." At that point, I really felt want to slap on his face...- I thought to inform your client is a very basic thing to provide service.)
Anyway, now we really want to keep the copies of all the paper/information he has obtained for this purchase as:
a) They would be useful to us to understand and plan for future extention/sales (in a long time)
b) We wouldn't want to use him again if we have any legal matter to deal with in the future. So perhaps better to keep documents ourself?
Then here comes the questions:
1. Is it normal or is it easy to justify this request? 2. What are the documents/information essential to be kept by ourselves?
3. Besides the deed, shall we ask anything else in original?
4. When is the best time to raise this request? The registration hasn't be done yet, I don't want to upset him yet...
Thank you.
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