Hi there,
I need some advice. I have a solicitor who is dealing with my family matter and she is not doing her job. I am on legal aid and I already changed once solicitor because I did not have any legal advice and I ve never met the solicitor herself but a paralegal.
This second solicitor has been recommended to me by a mumsneter who was very satisfied with her work but this mumsneter was not on legal aid and was paying herself for everything.
I had to go to the court yesterday and issue an application myself with my baby in my arm, I had to pay ÂŁ200 fees that I will ask her to refund. This application should have been issued 2 months 1/2 ago by the previous one who lied and told me that she did but she did not. The current solicitor was telling me that she was investigating and told me not to call the court myself as they were doing it. I got so stress and worried that I finaly contacted the court myself and discovered that there was not trace of the application.
Everytime she says she will call me she does not everytime I want to talk to her she is busy with a client or at a meeting. I spoke to her barely 20 mins altogether since our initial appointment where she pretended that she would do the job?
What do I do? this application is very important to me as I want to go back to my country with my child, I do not know if I will be able to represent myself as I am not native english speaker, I also do not know if the judge will appreciate that I change again solicitor...
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Help my solicitor is not doing anything!!
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Tahrir · 12/05/2012 15:13
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