MJP Conveyancing - My TERRIBLE experience

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I am writing this as I wish to share my personal experience with MJP Solicitors. They are cheap BUT....... I have posted reviews online on several places and each time they are removed (they have asked me to remove them, when I didn't they offered me £50 to remove the review and promise not to write another and when I refused they offered me £150 to remove my review.) I understand that you have a right to leave an honest factual review (which mine was) but they do not like this.   

I used them for two transactions at the same time: a purchase and a remortgage on a separate property.

The re-mortgage was a simple task to complete; remove a restriction on the title and place the charge against the house.  They informed me that the conveyancing was complete and I paid them and thought nothing more of it.  It was not until 1 yr later when I had a sale agreed on the the property that I found out that the property still had the restriction on the title it which meant the mortgage was invalid as the charge had never been placed against it and I could not sell it. This left me with a house I could not sell and risked losing my buyers causing a huge amount of additional stress. 

The purchase went smoothly until they added £300 onto my bill. By this point I had transferred £5k for stamp duty to their account to be paid to HMRC.  I disputed the additional £300 and refused to pay it. They took the £300 from the money I had sent to them to pay HMRC, leaving me with a debt to HMRC. I have been informed by another solicitor that this is gross misconduct. 

I personally would never use them again and do not want anyone else to go through what I have been through.