• Conveyancing Law

    By Guest on 03rd Feb 2017

    We have recently been at the bottom of a chain of buyers- we were told by the vendor at the top of the chain that he wanted to exchange within a week. Everyone in the chain got prepared to exchange to meet this deadline. The evening before the deadline we were told the vendor has exchanged with another buyer, with whom his lawyer had been negociating a sale with simultaneously with the buyer below him in our chain. I wondered if it was legal and whether this lawyer was practicing within the remit of SRA good standards. Please do let me know thank you

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    By Guest on 04/02/2017

    Complain to the regulatory body of the seller's solicitors/conveyance lawyers

  • By Guest on 07/02/2017

    If a solicitor has issued contract papers to two different buyers (or their solicitors) on behalf of the same vendor client then he has a duty under the code of conduct for solicitors to notify both sets of buyers' solicitors. If that is what has happened here then you may have a claim against the law firm involved. Discuss it with your own solicitor

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