Legal Minds - push too far?

[surveyor]

I spend a lot of time drawing land registry compliant plans. Mostly of telephone masts, but also can be of other property.

Occasionally i don’t run fast enough and get caught with drawing plans which are being used in connection with Boundary Disputes. These are always unpleasant and the side of the story that I get to hear is always sad.

The two most recent ones both involved solicitors who are either the neighbours or their relatives.

They have both involved elderly couples who have lived with arrangements such as they are for decades. They have relied on previously friendly neighbourly relations and not documented access arrangements legally.

Their then follows a line of what is morally right vs what is legally right. Neither of the solicitors involved seems to have a second thought at attempting personal gain from these situations where as far as I can see they are looking to make a quick killing at their neighbours expense.

Seems sad.

[anonymous-user]

Sad but not a surprise.

[matchmaker]

Boundary disputes rarely end well. I remember this well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncrieff_v_Jamieson

The only winners in the end were the lawyers.

(The case interested me not only because I was the guy who granted the original warrant to serve the writ, but because in days long past my wife's family owned all the land concerned)

[anonymous-user]

Some people are scuzzy. Some people who are lawyers are scuzzy. Some aren't. Er, that's it?