Complaints Handling Policy

Our Complaints Policy

We are committed to providing a high-quality legal service to all our clients. When something goes wrong, we need you to tell us about it. This will help us to improve our standards.

If you have a complaint, please contact us with the details.

What will happen next?

1. We will send you a letter/email acknowledging receipt of your complaint within five days of receiving it, enclosing a copy of this procedure.
2. We will then investigate your complaint. This will normally involve passing your complaint to our Aziz Rahman, who is responsible for client care matters and who will review your matter file and speak to the member(s) of staff who acted for you.
3. Aziz Rahman will then respond in writing to your complaint and confirm his initial decision in the matter. He will do this within 14 days of sending you the acknowledgement letter/email, provided the grounds of your complaint are clear. If the grounds are not clear Aziz Rahman will attempt to clarify the same with you prior to making his written decision.
4. If after considering the written response, you are still not satisfied, you should respond to Aziz Rahman and confirm your outstanding points of dispute. He will write to you within a further 14 days of receiving your request for a review, and may then invite you to a meeting at our offices if it is deemed possible to resolve some or all of the outstanding issues.
5. If a meeting is held, within three days of the meeting, Aziz Rahman will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions he has agreed with you.
6. If you do not want a meeting or it deemed that a meeting will not assist in resolving the matter, Aziz Rahman will send you a written reply to your outstanding issues of complaint, including his suggestions for resolving the matter, within 21 days of receiving the same. This will usually act as our final decision in the matter, after which you can either accept or reject the same.
7. If you are still not satisfied, you can then contact:
   
   Legal Ombudsman
   PO Box 6167
   Slough
   SL1 0EH
   
   

A complaint to the Legal Ombudsman must be made:

a. Within 6 months of received our final response to you complaint;

b. No more than one year from the date of omission being complained about; or

c. No more than one year from the date when you should reasonably have known there was cause for complaint.

If we have to change any of the timescales above, we will let you know and explain why.