Can I make a complaint about STBX solicitor?

[IndigoInk]

I received a letter from STBX solicitor on Friday (24 July) serving notice of a court date (for financial settlement) - I thought negotiations were going well so why he's applied to court is a whole other thread.

The letter was postmarked 22 July but was dated 18 June.
So I have over 5 weeks less to prepare.

No grounds to complain. The court serves the sealed application and order containing the timetable. The fact they sent it to you as well is neither here nor there. You have no reasonable expectation that they will have sent it as well as the court. I'm assuming this is an application for financial remedy order.

Are you saying that the letter from the solicitor to you was 18th June but you think it was sent 22 nd July?

It may have been a typo. Look at the date the court heard the applicaiotn for a financial remedy. The courts are massively backlogged and so it is not in any way impossible that the court considered the application from weeks back and then it was not sent out until recently.

Do you have a solicitor of your own? if so ask them. If negotiations are going well then ask STBX solicitor if there can be a delay to court. There usually can if both parties agree.

Anyway, look at the timetable.... i am assuming you are being called to a first appointment? When is that date, and how much time do you really need? What are they asking you to do before then?

The only letter I've had is from STBX solicitor (dated 18th June but not sent until 22 July) serving notice of a first appointment with a copy of the court notice and timetable.

I haven't had anything from the court itself.

It was likely meant to be 18th July rather than June.

@PolPotNoodle

It was likely meant to be 18th July rather than June.

Not likely. 18 July was a Saturday. But again, this is something the court serves.

They could have been working on a saturday. I am a family law solicitor and i have been working myself into an early grave including on saturdays.

I would say (like Collaborate ) that the court serves the notice and the timetable- and the OP has not said when the first appointment is. If it is weeks away i am not sure what the OP could be complaining about.

OP- I am assuming then you do not have a solicitor of your own? It is really worth thinking about particularly if you are at financial remedy stage. You need expert guidance- particularly if there is likely to be pension sharing orders etc.

Thanks everyone.

I've had nothing served from the court.
It seems the dates of his solicitors letter are irrelevant and I'm just lucky they decided to send it me at all, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.

I am seeing a solicitor today, so hopefully it will be sorted out.

Glad to hear you are seeing a solicitor. Good luck. Make sure you take the documents you received with you (I know you alreayd know that but sometimes people forget!!).