Wilson Barca LLP Complaints Procedure
Our approach to complaints
We aim to provide a high-quality legal service to all our clients. When something goes wrong we want you to tell us about it, so that we can address your concerns and improve our standards.
How to complain and who to complain to
Please first contact the person who is working on your case to discuss your concerns and we will do our best to resolve any issues at this stage.
If you are then still dissatisfied, and would like to make a formal complaint, we set out below our procedure
You need to make a formal complaint in writing to avoid any misunderstanding. The person with responsibility for complaints is:
Richard Gregory Barca Partner
Wilson Barca LLP
Carlisle Buildings,
18 Carlisle Street,
London,
W1D 3BX,
Email: rgbarca@wilsonbarca.com
The Solicitors Regulation Authority can help you if you are concerned about our professional behaviour. You can contact them at www.sra.org.uk
Our complaints procedure
1. We aim to resolve your complaint within eight weeks.
2. We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint within five working days of us receiving the complaint. We will send you a copy of this procedure.
3. We will then investigate your complaint. This will normally involve passing your complain to our client care partner, Richard Gregory Barca, if the complaint has not already been directed to him. He will review your matter/ file and speak to the member of staff who acted for you or who the complaint relates to.
4. He will then normally invite you to a meeting to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint. He will do this within fourteen days of sending you the acknowledgement letter.
5. Within three days of the meeting, he will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions he has agreed with you.
6. If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible, he will send you a detailed written reply to your complaint, including her suggestions for resolving the matter, within twenty one days of sending you the acknowledgment letter.
7. At this stage, if you are still not satisfied, you should contact us again and we will arrange for another partner or someone unconnected with the matter at the firm to review the decision.
8. We will write to you within the fourteen days of receiving your request for a review, confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons.
9. If we have to change any of the timescales above, we will let you know and explain why.
If you remain unhappy after our complaints procedure
If you are still not satisfied, you can then contact the Legal Ombudsman as soon as possible but within 12 months of receiving a final response from us to your complaint and
• No more than 6 years from the date of act/omission: or
• No more than 3 years from when you should reasonably have known there was a cause for complaint
The contact details are: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
Legal Ombudsman
PO BOX 6806
Wolverhampton
WV1 9WJ
TEL: 0300 555 0333 between 9am and 5pm
Enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk
Alternative complaints bodies such as Ombudsman Services exist which are competent to deal with complaints about legal services should both you and this firm wish to use such a scheme, if the internal complaints process has not been able to settle your complaint.
The contact details are
Tel: 0333 300 1620
complaints@consumer-ombudsman.org
www.consumer-ombudsman.org
We would agree to use the Ombudsman Services or one of the other organizations identified as being competent to address complaints within the legal services sector (such as ADR Group or ProMediate)