Complaints Procedure / Client Satisfaction

Satisfying your requirements and expectations requires not only a professional approach on our part, but also that we should be kept aware of any concerns that you have about our work or about the progress of your matter. We therefore hope that you will raise any such concerns promptly and frankly, and indeed tell us of any suggestions to improve our services. To that end we have internal systems of quality control, including periodic reviews of our service.

Any complaint you may have in relation to our services, which may include a complaint about an invoice, should be raised in the first instance with the fee earner responsible for your matter. He or she may seek the assistance of others in the firm trying to resolve the matter with you. Alternatively, if either at the outset, or if you and the fee earner cannot resolve your complaint, you wish to make a complaint under our Complaints procedure or if your complaint relates to that fee earner. Please write to the firm’s complaints handling director, Dipesh Dosani. He will acknowledge your complaint in writing, explain to you the procedure that he will follow to investigate the matter and will conduct a full review.

If you remain dissatisfied after receiving our final response to your complaint (including a complaint relating to an invoice) you can contact the Legal Ombudsman as follows:

  • post: Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6167, Slough, SL1 0EH; or
  • email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk; or
  • telephone: 0300 555 0333 or if calling from overseas +44 121 245 3050

If you wish to refer a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman, it should be done within one year of the date of the act or omission about which you are concerned or within one year of you realising there was a concern. You must also refer your concerns to the Legal Ombudsman within six months of our final response to you.

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The Legal Ombudsman has restricted the categories of clients who are eligible to complain to it. Broadly speaking, a complainant must be an individual (including trustees, personal representatives and beneficiaries of estates), a small business or a charity or club with an annual net income of less than £1 million. For further guidance please refer to the Legal Ombudsman Scheme Rules.

If you remain dissatisfied after receiving our final response to your complaint (including a complaint relating to an invoice) and the Legal Ombudsman’s reply, you can contact SRA. Please note that you can contact the SRA without having to go to the Legal Ombudsman albeit the SRA may refer you to the Legal Ombudsman. 

The SRA can help you if you are concerned about our behaviour. This could be for dishonesty, taking or losing your money or treating you unfairly because of your age, a disability or other characteristic.

The SRA’s details are as follows:-

  • Post: Solicitors Regulation Authority, The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street, Birmingham, B1 1RN
  • Telephone: 0370 606 2577

If you wish to make a complaint relating to a bill, you must do so within one month of receiving the bill, failing which we will be under no obligation to investigate or to attempt to resolve the complaint. You may also have the right to apply to the court for assessment of the bill under Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974, or Part 48 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1999 normally within twelve months of delivery of the bill. The Legal Ombudsman may decline to consider your complaint if you have applied to the court for assessment of the bill.

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Variation
We may revise our website T&C documents from time to time

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Our Details
Lincoln & Rowe is a trading name of Lincoln & Rowe Limited. Our company number is 11229611
Our registered address is 81 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DD
This website is owned and operated by Lincoln & Rowe