Our Complaints Procedure:
If you have a Complaint, contact us with the details.
What Will Happen Next?
- We will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain the details set out. We also let you know the name of the person who will be dealing with your complaint. You can expect to receive our letter within 7 days of us receiving your complaint.
- We will record your complaint in our central register and open a separate file for your complaint. We will do this within 7 days of receiving your complaint.
- We will then start to investigate your complaint. This will normally involve the following steps.
∎ We will pass your complaint to Mr Anthony Ebube, our Client Care partner, within 3 days.
∎ He will ask the member of staff who acted for you to reply to your complaint within 5 days.
∎ He will then examine their reply and the information in your complaint file. And if necessary, he may also speak to them. This will take up to three days from receiving their reply and file. - Anthony Ebube will then invite you to a meeting and discuss the matter with you and hopefully resolve your complaint. He will do this within three days of receiving their reply.
- Within two days of the meeting Anthony Ebube will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions he has agreed with you.
If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible, Anthony Ebube will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include his suggestions for resolving the matter. He will do this within five days of completing the investigation
- At this stage, if you are still not satisfied you can contact us again. We will then arrange to review our decision. This will happen in one of the following ways:
∎ Another partner of the firm will review Anthony Ebube’s decision within 10 days.
∎ We will ask our local Law Society or another local firm of solicitors to review your complaint within five days. We will let you know how long this process will take.
∎ We will invite you to agree to independent mediation within five days. We will let you know how long this process will take. - We will let you know the result of the review within five days of the end of the review. At this time we will write to you confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons. We will also give you the name and address of our Consumer Complaints Service. If you are still not satisfied, you can contact them about your complaint.
If we have to change any of the timescales above, we will let you know and explain why.