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Is it possible if you aren't the client? Trying to buy a house, literally no response to letters or calls for over a month. Appears on talking to agent and even some one at work this chap has a reputation for being spectacularly slow.
Is there a checkatrade like website where you can leave user feedback?
No, only option really is to put pressure on the vendor.
They are untouchable. How big are your balls? Tell the agent you're looking at another property with a view to cutting your losses.
They're not untouchable.
Every solicitor is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Give them a ring.
(But the threat to the sellers to pull out may prove just as effective.)
Solisitors looking after complaints about solicitors. Maybe technically not untouchable but as near as bollocks is to swearing untouchable.
Onzadog - Member
Solisitors looking after complaints about solicitors. Maybe technically not untouchable but as near as bollocks is to swearing untouchable
Just as terrible as the GMC being comprised of doctors, the RICS being comprised of surveyors, the FRC and ICAEW being made up of accountants etc etc.
Uninformed cobblers - would you rather professionals were regulated by people who had no idea how to do the job? Assuming you're employed, would you expect someone with no technical knowledge to judge whether you are competent or not?
You're smearing a whole profession which comprises, on the whole, fairly decent law abiding people. In fact the regulator for solicitors can be pretty heavy handed and the compliance regime currently in place is pretty strict.
OP, the vendor's solicitors don't owe you any duties but if their conduct is holding matters up to the point it goes beyond what could reasonably be expected of them you can complain directly to them, raise it with the SRA (though a complaint from a disgruntled third party is unlikely to hold much weight unless they have breached the professional conduct rules) or try the Legal Ombudsman service.