Solicitor requesting payment for a letter he sent me.

Hi, I received a solicitor's letter a week or so ago requesting £180 for some retrospective permission on a property leasehold for his client the leaseholder. If I paid before his deadline there would be no action taken so I paid it in full promptly. This being done, I then received another letter from the solicitor asking for £300 which was to pay his fee. Am I legally responsible for paying his fee or it it his clients responsibility even though in his original letter he made no mention of me having to pay his fees?

StevieG

What is it exactly is happening here. Did you sell property? Who is the client of the solicitor?

Please edit your thread title to make it more meaningful.

I bought a dorma bungalow a few years ago and whoever put the dorma on never got the leaseholders permission before doing it. So when I bought it, responsibility passed to me. I got a letter off the agent asking for retrospective permission and refused to pay it, thinkng it was a scam. Then I got a letter of the leaseholders solicitor requesting the £180 but no mention of any fees if I paid by his deadline. I paid him and consequently he has now sent me a letter requesting £300 for his fee. My solicitor whom did the conveyancing originally has since gone bust so I have no means of readdress from them. Where do I go from here? Do I tell him to get lost and get his fee from the leaseholder who is his client and risk racking up an even bigger bill from him or do I just pay him? Any help or advice?

askaboutmoney.com is an Irish consumer website. It appears you are based in another jurisdiction where planning laws etc differ.

Sequence of events and the parties involved is not fully clear here. Who's the agent and what's their role?

The terms of your leasehold will likely clear this up. It wouldn't be unusual to state you are liable for any legal fees encountered by the leaseholder in handling breaches of the lease conditions.