We are in the process of purchasing a property, something that is seeming less likely to happen by the day. Anyway, some back story, we used a solicitor who was recommended to us by the estate agent and all seemed to be going well. Then we received an email from the solicitor a few months ago stating that the developer of property we are purchasing has also chosen to switch their solicitor to use the same as us and then a bunch more nonsense about how this won't be a conflict of interest, there will be a division in the firm between who works for who and things would even move faster now bc of this. We said fine. Well, things didn't move faster , they were still just as useless and now 3 weeks before we are meant to complete on the day we were meant to exchange (our mortgage agreement expires at the end of October) we have received an email stating that the conveyancer can no longer represent us due to a conflict of interest. We have a signed letter from them saying this wouldn't happen and now we will lose our house bc of their incompetence. Is there anything we can do legally? Do we have any recourse other than slating them on every website possible, which I will absolutely be doing?