17 Jan 2017 11:50 PM:

Hi Brian, I still haven't decided what to do about this 'robbery'.  i'm wary of giving any other solicitor more of my money on promises of action only to find i am getting nothing for it!  who can you trust?

 

regards

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17 Jan 2017 7:00 PM:

Hi,  still waiting for even a reply from lucas associados.  they confirmed that they owe me some money [they won't divulge the amount].  they seem to have charged a hell of a lot more than i expected.  i've still not had an invoice!

regards and good luck, you will need it.

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09 Sep 2016 6:35 PM:

Dear Maria,

could you please tell us what the rate of legal interest is?

i won my case but my solicitor, for some unknown reason, refuses to tell me what the legal interest rate which i was awarded was.  is it the same rate for everyone within a particular time span?  my contract with the developer stated the interest would be 6% but the amount i received back, after the court case, is about 2%.  it seems my solicitor has kept a lot more than i expected him to keep. i wonder why he refuses to tell me just how much i was awarded. i have received no information in writing from him and nothing which was issued by the court despite a number of requests?

i paid a deposit of euros 63,000.  the initial payment of euros 3,000 was paid in the developers office in Torrevieja using my Barclays Bank debit card and I have a payment slip to confirm this.  the second payment of euros 60,000 was made by bank transfer from my Solbank account in Torrevieja.  At the first instance hearing the court ordered the bank to pay me all euros 63,000 but at the appeal hearing the court ordered the bank to repay only the euros 60,000 made by bank transfer.  i have asked my solicitor why this happened and he refuses to tell me.  i suspect whoever represented me in the appeal court might have been negligent and at fault for this; but it's me who has lost euros 3,000 because of their incompetence.  obviously this is my take on things and maybe it's inaccurate but why else would the solicitor fail or refuse to tell me?

would you be able to question him about this?  i am clearly unhappy with the situation and i believe i should have been given thousands of euros more than my solicitor gave me.

Maria, would you please let me know if you could help me with this?

many thanks,

John A

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20 Aug 2016 12:42 AM:

Hi Brian,  thanks for the info.  i've  got nothing to lose now.  i'll give him 'til next friday to give me some answers if i haven't heard from him by then i will get another solicitor to query his costs.  his fee, according to our contract, is 5% which would mean his fee is around maybe euros 4 - 5 k.  looks like he's taken euros 12 - 15 but without the details, which i've asked him for a number of times i won't know for sure.  i would suspect a different solicitor would be able to find out.

regards,

John

 

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17 Aug 2016 6:42 PM:

i'm still waiting for any documents from my solicitor about the court cases.  i've received nothing at all, so i have no idea how much interest i was awarded, nor any idea of the interest rate.  i've not had an invoice.  my fees were paid simply by the solicitor witholding a large sum of money from my recovered funds.  there's been no indicatiion as to how much he's charged me. 

maybe it's time for me to engage the help of a different solicitor to look into this.  it stinks, to be honest.  something underhand has happened, in my opinion.  in fact, i didn't even receive all my deposit.  for some unknown reason the bank were allowed to keep euros 3,000!  my solicitor won all the deposit [euros 63,000] at the first instance hearing but lost that euros 3,000 at the appeal court.  

i think i'll contact Maria for her help and advice.  

 

 

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