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Solicitor Issues
Davidp77
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Hi all
Our recent house move unfortunately was one big stress, mostly down to the terrible solicitors that were recommended! They left everything to the last minute, lost paperwork, made me do most of the chasing, messed up the stamp duty and kept money of mine for some time that I felt they did not have to.
Anyway, I thought everything had been completed after being angry on the phone with my solicitor and requested they finally send through the details that HMRC required so that they could send the stamp duty certificate back to the solicitors. All that was needed was a few details after they had kept messing up the information that they were sending to HMRC but as they were not chasing it I again had to make all the calls.
I believed the final step was for them then to send this to the land registry. I have again emailed/called my solicitors to simply find out that everything was now sorted, that's all I wanted to know. However, they ignore my emails, don't return the calls so yesterday I decided to ring the land registry direct. They informed me that everything was still not finalised as there was errors on the application to change the details of the owners of the property and they had still not heard back from my solicitors?
Has anyone been through this problem before, I don't know if I am stressing too much about it and whether the solicitors will finally get round to sorting it out or whether if they don't there will be any issues further down the line if we ever come to move again if they have not completed their process all the way through?
Many thanks for any advice.
David
Our recent house move unfortunately was one big stress, mostly down to the terrible solicitors that were recommended! They left everything to the last minute, lost paperwork, made me do most of the chasing, messed up the stamp duty and kept money of mine for some time that I felt they did not have to.
Anyway, I thought everything had been completed after being angry on the phone with my solicitor and requested they finally send through the details that HMRC required so that they could send the stamp duty certificate back to the solicitors. All that was needed was a few details after they had kept messing up the information that they were sending to HMRC but as they were not chasing it I again had to make all the calls.
I believed the final step was for them then to send this to the land registry. I have again emailed/called my solicitors to simply find out that everything was now sorted, that's all I wanted to know. However, they ignore my emails, don't return the calls so yesterday I decided to ring the land registry direct. They informed me that everything was still not finalised as there was errors on the application to change the details of the owners of the property and they had still not heard back from my solicitors?
Has anyone been through this problem before, I don't know if I am stressing too much about it and whether the solicitors will finally get round to sorting it out or whether if they don't there will be any issues further down the line if we ever come to move again if they have not completed their process all the way through?
Many thanks for any advice.
David
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You could always look uo the firm's complaints procedure and follow that
If that fails to bring a satisfactory resolution, you can escalate here:
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/For-the-public/Using-a-Solicitor/Complaints/0
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