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Law Soc loses patience with Solicitors from Hell website

I read that the Legal Ombudsman, set up to consider complaints against solicitors, had operating costs of £8.3million in the first 6 months of its short existence and rejected 90% of complaints. Why not set aside, out of the grant to the Legal Ombudsman, a sum of say £1 million per annum to pay for the appointment of legal professionals to help administer Rick Kordowski's Solicitors from Hell website? A small staff will be of enormous benefit to this much needed independent service which will then be seen by the legal profession as a serious forum for complaints. The Law Society is, under the competiton laws, obliged to allow any number of solicitors to set up in practice. So it should not object to the formation of a competing complaints procedure which clearly has the support of the public. With a minimum amount of funding Solicitors from Hell can adapt and progress to the benefit of its users.

16-Aug-2011

7:02 pm