Specialist Legal Website
Our website is dedicated to the victims of professional negligence:
- The UK based Legal Complaints Service had 17,000 complaints last year
- There has been a 14% rise in the level of complaints about the legal profession over the last three years
Straightforward advice on how to sue your solicitor:
- Firstly you should contact the firm of solicitors who you believe have acted in a negligent manner
- Negligence could involve not acting in a timely manner and missing deadlines, unexpected bills or a general failure to follow instructions
- Most legal firms in the UK will designate a partner to deal with complaints from clients
- If you can't resolve the situation with your solicitors then your next port of call should be the Legal Complaints Service (LCS)
- The LCS will attempt to settle the dispute
- The more detailed notes and documentation you have the better
- The LCS has the power to award compensation or to reduce bills
- The amount of compensation may be determined by the amount of stress and inconvenience caused
- £15,000 is the maximum award the LCS has the power to give
- Suing your solicitor in court for negligence should be seen as a last resort
- A solicitor is negligent if it can be demonstrated that they didn't exercise a reasonable or ordinary level of care
- Other examples of solicitors negligence include a conflict of interest or going ahead with a case that had a minimal chance of success
Useful contacts:
LEGAL COMPLAINTS SERVICE WEBSITE: www.legalcomplaints.org.uk