Legal Protocol Query

[chrissrush]

Apologies if this is in the wrong section.

Long story short and not going into detail...

Our neighbours solicitors issued us a notice prior to action regarding a dispute.
This was we believe backed and financed by legal insurance cover.

My solicitors response, which with the evidence provided negated his claims, and three subsequent letters, voicemails and phonecalls have been unacknowledged by my neighbours solicitor.

My question is..

We are assuming the legal insurance cover has been withdrawn due to the low chance of success and that the solicitor wants payment in cash to continue in any way.

Is the solicitor under a duty to have forwarded the unanswered correspondence to his now (presumed) ex-client? or would our letters be simply binned?

Thanks

[wijit]

Your neighbours' solicitor is bound by the Data Protection Act to hold onto your correspondence. Any solicitor your neighbour employs will then either start from the beginning or contact the original solicitor which could cost your neighbour.
I would loosely guess your neighbour is either no longer going to pursue this action, or is hoping to do so at a later date.
If you just give your solicitor a call and ask him what the next course of action is, I'm sure he will advise you more specifically as different cases can offer different routes legally.

[chrissrush]

Thanks, we have effectively written to the neighbours solicitor stating that their continued non response is indicative of their acceptance of our view of the dispute and considering the matter closed.

Just wanting to know if the solicitor would have had to forward a copy - seems bizarre (and rude TBH) that not a single acknowledgment of letters/faxes/emails/voicemail has been given by one solicitor to another!

[wijit]

Fairly normal I'm afraid. Correspondence is seldom easy to come by, these people operate to totally different rules of life to those with a pulse.