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Complaints Policy 2024

Our complaints policy

We are committed to providing a high-quality legal service to all our clients. When something goes wrong we need you to tell us about it. This will help us to improve our standards.

Our complaints procedure

If you have a complaint, please contact the Complaints Partner who is Gordon Keir at 83 Alcester Road Moseley Birmingham B13 8EB. Email: gordonkeir@hhb-mo.co.uk or in his absence the Deputy Complaints Partner who is David Pritchett at the same address Email: davidpritchett@hhb-mo.co.uk.

We have eight weeks to consider your complaint but we will aim to deal with it in the timescales set out below. If we have to change any of the responsibilities or the timescales set out below we will let you know and explain why.

What will happen next?

  1. Within 3 working days we will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain any details. If it seems appropriate we will suggest a meeting at this stage. We will also let you know the name of the person who will be dealing with your complaint.
  2. We will then record your complaint in our central register held at Moseley office and open a file for your complaint.
  3. We will investigate your complaint by examining the relevant file.
  4. If appropriate we will then invite you to meet the person handling your complaint to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint. We would hope to be in a position to meet with you in this way no longer than 14 working days after first receiving your complaint. If you would prefer not to meet, or if we cannot arrange this within an agreeable timescale, we will write fully to you setting out our views on the situation and any redress that we would feel to be appropriate.
  5. Within 3 working days of any meeting we will write to you to confirm what took place and any suggestions that we have agreed with you. In appropriate cases we could offer an apology, a reduction of any bill or a repayment in relation to any payment received.
  6. At this stage, if you are still not satisfied, please let us know. We will then arrange to review our decision. We would generally aim to do this within 10 working days. This will happen in one of the following ways.
    1. The Complaints partner will review his own decision within 10 working days or
    2. We will arrange for someone in the firm who has not been involved in your complaint to review it within 10 working days or
    3. We will ask our local law society to review your complaint. We will let you know how long this process will take or
    4. We will invite you to agree to independent mediation. We will let you know how long this process will take.
  7. We will let you know the result of the review within 5 working days of the end of the review. At this time, we will write to you confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons.

In the event that you are not satisfied with the firm’s response the Legal Ombudsman may be able to consider your complaint. There are, however, restrictions to this service for organisations, as set out on their website (see below)

The contact details for the Legal Ombudsman are:

You should bring any complaint to the Legal Ombudsman within 6 months of the end of our complaints process. In addition, you should be aware that the Legal Ombudsman will not accept your complaint if:

  • More than one year has elapsed from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint; or
  • More than one year has elapsed from the time when you should have known about the complaint.

You may alternatively contact the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) if you have concerns as to whether we have breached any of their professional rules for solicitors. These will be found at https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/standards-regulations/principles.

The SRA contact details are: