Has anyone else had the same problem as I am having with three separate firms of solicitors who have taken over as new solicitors in legally aided matters?
We have dutifully handed over all our papers and raised no objection to the change of solicitor and at the end of the case have promptly participated in the costing process and paid our share of the costs draftsman's fee
Then comes the long, long silence and we have the devil's own job in trying to find out when we can expect payment of the costs on our part of the bill
Files seem to get lost, staff leave and then we are asked to pay money for files to be retrieved from storage. Finally we are sent a cheque without any proper statement of account on how the (paltry) sum has been arrived at
Is this a common experience Mine was only a small firm but we seem to have had more than our fair share
