Wright Hassall do the right thing.

Sam_Fallow

Dear Mr Xxxxx
OurReference: 000000
OurClient: ZZPSLimited

I write further to your complaint received in our offices via email on 00 March 2015 and our subsequent acknowledgement dated 00 March 2015.

Having reviewed your complaint and investigated the matter I can confirm that we have now closed our file in this regard and returned it to our client ZZPS Limited.

I would like to take this opportunity to assure you that we take your comments seriously and it is not our intention for our letters to be interpreted in a threatening or intimidating manner. Having taken the above into consideration I am able to up hold your complaint and to confirm we are no longer instructed on this
matter. Please refer any future queries to our client, ZZPS Limited directly.

Yours Sincerely

Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Customer Assurance Department
For and On Behalf Of
Wright Hassall Solicitors LLP

All explained in my thread here.

Herzlos

00 March? I'm still not convinced this comes from Wright Hassal, and it doesn't say they are no longer dealing with ZZPS, just that they've closed this instance. But still, it's progress.

trisontana

I wonder if the thought of the SRA getting involved has prompted this turn around?

daveyjp

Judging by the link to the company they are not insignificant. Times must be really hard in the legal world if they are willing to expose themselves to reputational damage by getting into bed with PPCs.

Marktheshark

daveyjp wrote: »

Judging by the link to the company they are not insignificant. Times must be really hard in the legal world if they are willing to expose themselves to reputational damage by getting into bed with PPCs.

Agree totally, not even "real debts" no more legitimate than charges for standing on a crack in a pavement.

Only a very desperate Solicitors gets grubbed up with a private parking ticket racket.
Would you trust them to do anything for you ?

trisontana

I think the days of the "honorable" solicitor are long gone. Just like bank managers they used to be regarded as pillars of society, No more. There are quite a few examples of dodgy behaviour by them now. There was the case of the solicitor from Leeds mixed up in a "boiler room" scam, or the one in Bristol who said that a pyramid scheme was legitimate. So legitimate in fact that 9 women went to prison over it.

Even more serious was the case in the area where I live where several solicitors creamed off millions of pounds that should have gone to miners under the compensation scheme for sick and injured workers.

bazster

Marktheshark wrote: »

Would you trust them to do anything for you ?

It obviously hasn't crossed their minds that so many of these letters are flying around that there is a real chance one could land on the doormat of a potential client - and that one future client alone choosing to go to a less sleazy legal firm could cost them vastly more revenue/profit than they are making from ZZPS.

The_Deep

... the days of the "honorable" solicitor are long gone.

Indeed, my own solicitor, Jonathan Gilbert, brought down his company

http://www.debtmanagementtoday.co.uk/newsstory?id=782&type=newsfeature&title=solicitor_handed_15-year_bankruptcy_restriction_after_9m_loss

Then of course there was Mr Vaz's friend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162996/Shahrokh-Mireskandari-Keith-Vazs-crooked-race-lawyer-pal-struck-off.html

HO87

We could go on and on and there are many examples of wrong-doing by solicitors.

Like the systematic and large-scale legal aid fraud practiced within Robinsons solicitors in Cheltenham back in the '90's. The managing partner picked up a decent 7 years for his trouble - after he had repaid half a million. Another 7 members of staff were imprisoned.

http://www.sfo.gov.uk/press-room/press-release-archive/press-releases-2004/twenty-two-convictions-in-legal-aid-fraud-at-solicitors-firm.aspx

There must be something about Gloucestershire because it was only a couple of years ago that the county coroner was found to have his hand in the till to the tune of £2m and he collected an 8 year sentence.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/solicitor_and_former_gloucestershire_coroner_sentenced_for_fraud/

Then there was the case of the Welsh solicitor that helped a drug dealer friend to build up his property portfolio. He got 4 years for his trouble.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-12786950

The best reading are all the disciplinary reports published on the SRA website.

Sam_Fallow

Herzlos wrote: »

00 March? I'm still not convinced this comes from Wright Hassal, and it doesn't say they are no longer dealing with ZZPS, just that they've closed this instance. But still, it's progress.

This does come from WH. 00 March? I've edited some parts for anonymity. Plus, it was signed by a real person though they are not mentioned on WH staff pages but at least they have a customer Assurance department.

bazster

Sam_Fallow wrote: »

This does come from WH. 00 March? I've edited some parts for anonymity. Plus, it was signed by a real person though they are not mentioned on WH staff pages but at least they have a customer Assurance department.

Possibly, but "Customer Assurance Department" sounds more like the kind of rubbish debt collectors invent than a department in a legal firm. For a start, solicitors don't have "customers", they have clients.