Hi all. We are buying a house and our solicitor is, in my opinion, very lazy. I have to call him every week to make him work. When I didn't, no work was done. Even estate agent complaint to me and asked me to chase my own solicitor. Today, I learned that he usually replied to the other party after a couple of days, however, he keeps telling me that the vendor is the one not responding. So far, I think he caused us around 3 weeks of delay. We are dissatisfied with his work and now we should pay him 1k without VAT and searches. Is it enough to ask for a discount? Yes, he is slow but he did the job. I am not sure as I heard stories much worse than mine.