Solicitor didn't pay on completion

[Raify]

Due to the fact that the solicitor I used to sell a flat is a moron, I didn't get paid on the completion date.

She since rectified the problem with a same day transfer and a half-arsed apology, but the net result is that £110k was sitting in their client account for 21 days.

What's everyone's opinion on this, particularly relating to lost interest. Is it worth persuing and/or likely to bear fruit?

[Liszt]

With interest rates at feck all, you are looking at less than £30. Ask for a nice bottle of Champagne instead.

[Raify]

Liszt said:

With interest rates at feck all, you are looking at less than £30. Ask for a nice bottle of Champagne instead.

Quite, this is what's making me apathetic about the whole situation. Plus I'd have to converse with the moron again, something I was hoping to avoid after completion.

[Raify]

Tonker,

We got a statement of the final sale amount and all the fees to be deducted (this was sent to our old address, nice one!).

I queried the statement, as the summary page said one thing for a partiular charge, and the detail behind said another thing.

She claims that this query confused her and she "thought she'd sent it" We definitely gave her explicit instructions about where to pay the money.

[Raify]

It was a proper firm, that was recommended.... Maybe a letter would be best, the late payment was not the only thing they did wrong.

[Flintstone]

Fire off the letter with a list of their misdemeanours. At worst you'll get it off your chest, at best there'll be something by way of apology/compensation. Either way you won't be thinking years later "They were crap and I should have told them" and starting threads on t'internet

[Raify]

Ok then. Smashing her back doors in is not an option...

[Rags]

Two wrongs don't make a right but forget to pay her fees.

[fatboy b]

Rags said:

Two wrongs don't make a right but forget to pay her fees.

How? They're subtracted from the sale money before you get it.

[fatboy b]

When we sold our flat that we were renting out a few years back, there was no chain, and the solicitor said it'll be about 6 weeks. 3 months later it completes they sent us the deeds . Silly brain-dead secretary. We sat on those for a few weeks while they stewed about where they had sent them.