My solicitor sent me lease documnets for signing once we had moved into our place.
We returned them in the post as we had received them ( not by registerd post ).
Nearly exactly a year later solicitor contacts me to say the lease was lost / never received and it was the tax man who has noticed this NOT the solicitor.
Apparently its the clients duty to ensure that the solicitor receives the returned contract and not the firms responsibility to track these sort of things, with any sort of mail register or tracking system for such important documents etc.
Its amazing it was not spotted over 1 year. The other thing is the package would have made it the solicitor with an address of Mr Solicitor, Co Where he lives.
It baffles how it got "lost in the post" and I would be inclined to think an organisiation that allows a year to pass without realising this occurance, is the sort of organiation that would potentially lose documents internally between offces perhaps...
I send out sub contracts constantly in my line of work. Its MY resnsibility to make sure they are received, signed and returned to me.
Surely my solicitor must have the same obligation to look after the client in this regard, thats what we pay them for, to manage this task for us, that we know nothing about........ A duty of care if you will.....??
The tax man has now indicated penalties etc may be due where do I stand here ??
thanks
MB
We returned them in the post as we had received them ( not by registerd post ).
Nearly exactly a year later solicitor contacts me to say the lease was lost / never received and it was the tax man who has noticed this NOT the solicitor.
Apparently its the clients duty to ensure that the solicitor receives the returned contract and not the firms responsibility to track these sort of things, with any sort of mail register or tracking system for such important documents etc.
Its amazing it was not spotted over 1 year. The other thing is the package would have made it the solicitor with an address of Mr Solicitor, Co Where he lives.
It baffles how it got "lost in the post" and I would be inclined to think an organisiation that allows a year to pass without realising this occurance, is the sort of organiation that would potentially lose documents internally between offces perhaps...
I send out sub contracts constantly in my line of work. Its MY resnsibility to make sure they are received, signed and returned to me.
Surely my solicitor must have the same obligation to look after the client in this regard, thats what we pay them for, to manage this task for us, that we know nothing about........ A duty of care if you will.....??
The tax man has now indicated penalties etc may be due where do I stand here ??
thanks
MB