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.

If you have a complaint about our delivery of legal services to you or a bill for our services then you must raise that complaint within twelve (12) months of matter of which you wish to complain. Please contact Mr Simon R B Stell, our Managing Partner.  You can write to him at:

Last Cawthra Feather
Airedale House
128 Sunbridge Road
BRADFORD
BD1 2AT
Fax: 01274 390644
Email: sstell@lcf.co.uk

What will happen next?

We will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain the details set out.  You can expect to receive our letter within three days of us receiving your complaint.

We will record your complaint in our central register.  We will do this within one day of receiving your complaint.

We will then start to investigate your complaint.  This will normally involve the following steps:

We will ask the member of staff who acted for you to respond to the matters you raise within five days.

We will then examine their reply, the issues that you raise and your file (where appropriate).  This will take up to five days from receiving their reply and the file.

If appropriate, we will then invite you to meet to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint.  He will do this within three days.

Within two days of the meeting, we will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions he has agreed with you.

If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible or practicable, we will send you a detailed reply to your complaint.  This would include suggestions for resolving the matter.  We will do this within five days of completing our investigations and in any event not more than 21 days from receipt of your complaint.

At this stage, if you are still not satisfied, you can write to us again.  We will then arrange to review our decision.  This will happen in one of the following ways:

Another partner in the firm will review the Managing Partner’s decision within ten days.

We will let you know the result of the review within five 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.  We will also give you the name and address of the Legal Ombudsman.  If you are still not satisfied, you can contact them about your complaint.

If you are not satisfied with the conclusions reached or the process of the way your complaint has been handled you have a right to complain to the Legal Ombudsman

You must make such complaint with six (6) months of the conclusion of our response to your complaint

You should address your complaint to:

The Legal Ombudsman
PO Box 15870
Birmingham B30 9EB 
Tel: 0300 555 0333
Email:  enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk