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Conveyancing solicitor overcharged me
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Make sure you've properly followed the solicitors' own complaints procedure. If you have, and you're not satisfied with their response, see https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/for-the-public/using-a-solicitor/complaints/0
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I'm wondering why you paid the £1022 at all, if you had just paid what you were quoteed and queried the rest it would now be them chasing you for money rather than the other way round.0
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There is no information about any complaints procudure on their website. Contacting them to ask about it would result in me communicating with the same people I have been previously.
Thanks for the link.0 -
I'm wondering why you paid the £1022 at all, if you had just paid what you were quoteed and queried the rest it would now be them chasing you for money rather than the other way round.
My solicitor got the sale money from the buyer's solicitior and deducted their fees before transferring the rest.0 -
Stop emailing and ring them. "Please inform me of your complaints procedure, else I'll have to go to the SRA." They are not going to refuse to answer.There is no information about any complaints procudure on their website. Contacting them to ask about it would result in me communicating with the same people I have been previously.
Thanks for the link.0 -
When you first instructed them they should have sent you full details of their terms of business and this should have included their complaints procedure. You might have filed the letter away? Or chucked it?
Or perhaps if it's an online outfit it was included as an email attachment?
But I'd be surprised if you never received it.0 -
Where are you now living? If abroad is inside the EU they can fairly easily chase you for the debt (if they get on with it!). Outside the EU I would be surprised if they bothered.
I would be inclined to wait until they can give you a plausible explanation of the discrepancy.0 -
There isn't a debt from the OP to the solicitor, there's a debt from the solicitor to the OP. Waiting is not going to help
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