If you have a complaint, please contact Olu Ogunnowo, our Client Care Manager. You can contact him at Kingsville Law Solicitors address at, 1 Plumstead Road, London SE18 7BZ telephone number 0208 317 1477.
What will happen next?
- We will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and setting out our understanding of the issues you are concerned about. In that letter we will ask you to confirm or otherwise our understanding of the nature of your complaint. We will also let you know the name of the person who will be dealing with your complaint. You can expect to receive our letter within three working days of our receiving your complaint.
- We will record your complaint in our central register and open a file for your complaint. We will do this within a day of receiving your complaint.
- We will then start to investigate your complaint. This will normally involve the following steps.
- The person dealing with your complaint will ask the member of staff who acted for you to provide their response to your complaint. This response will be sent to the person dealing with the complaint within five working days of the complaint being acknowledged.
- The person dealing with your complaint will then examine information in your complaint file and if necessary, he may speak to the member of staff and to that member of staff’s Head of Department. This will take up to five days from receiving their reply and the file.
- We may invite you to meet the member of staff and their head of department to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint. We will do this within five days of receiving all the details from the member of staff who acted for you.
- Within two days of the meeting, we will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions we have agreed with you. If you do not want a meeting or we do not feel a meeting is necessary, we will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include our suggestions for resolving the matter. This will happen within five days of us completing our investigation.
- At this stage, if you are still not satisfied you can contact us again. We will then arrange to review our decision.
- Our Client Care Manager will review your complaint within ten days and send a detailed reply to your complaint.
- At this time, we will write to you confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons.
- If you are still not satisfied with how we have dealt with the matter, you can refer your complaint to our Regulatory body (SRA) by visiting its website at www.sra.org.uk.
The Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) plays a crucial role in ensuring the ethical conduct of solicitors and law firms. As the regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales, the SRA sets and enforces the Code of Conduct for Firms, which outlines the standards that solicitors must adhere to.
Under this code, solicitors are required to act fairly, honestly, with integrity, and in the best interests of their clients. If you have concerns about the behaviour of a solicitor or a firm that breaches these principles, you can raise your concerns with the SRA.
The SRA provide a platform for individuals to submit complaints and raise concerns. The SRA takes these complaints seriously and will investigates these thoroughly to ensure the integrity of the legal profession.
If you believe that a solicitor or this firm has acted inappropriately, it is important to bring your concerns to the attention of the SRA. By doing so, you are contributing to upholding the standards of the legal profession and protecting the rights and interests of clients. You can do this by completing a form online at www.sra.org.uk setting out your concerns. Or;
the Legal Ombudsman to look into your complaint. You can contact them about your complaint. You can ask the Legal Ombudsman (address PO Box 6167, Slough, SL1 0EH, website legalombudsman.org.uk, telephone 0300 555 0333) to consider the complaint.
- Before accepting a complaint for investigation, the Legal Ombudsman will check that you have tried to resolve your complaint with us first. If you have, then you must take your complaint to the Legal Ombudsman:
- Within six months of receiving a final response to your complaint. and;
- No more than 1 year from the act/omission that led to the complaint. Or;
- No more than 1 year from when you should reasonably have known there was cause for complaint.
If you would like more information about the Legal Ombudsman, you can contact them directly.
You can contact the Legal Ombudsman by:
The Legal Ombudsman correspondence address is:
Telephone: 0300 555 0333Email: [email protected].ukWebsite: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
- Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6167, Slough, SL10EH
We will inform you, if we have to change, any of the timescales above. We will provide full explanation why we need to do so.