3 reviews (1/5) and information for Lcf Law Limited, Bradford

24/04/25 - Reviewed by James

I deeply regret trusting LCF residential to deal with our house purchase. An unbelievably bad service in my opinion. Terrible communication, unresponsive, slow, vague, verging on complete incompetence.
We were buying a vacant property with no mortgage and no chain but it still took almost 3 months, largely because of delays caused by “Blue Team”
They took several days to respond to a simple email – that is when I got any response at all – and every time I called to speak to the person dealing with our case, she was apparently either “on another line” “in training all afternoon” “in an emergency meeting” or “not in the office today”
As the buyers, we were without doubt the least informed of everybody in the whole process, due to their incompetence.
On the one occasion that I was actually put through to the solicitor in charge of our case on the phone she came across to me as extremely rude and arrogant. She offered no advice or suggestions on the best way to proceed and gave sharp, abrupt replies to my queries. Furthermore, rather than answering my queries and putting my mind at rest, said “I’ll put it on an email for you”. But true to form, that email didn’t arrive.
Obviously, buying a house is a huge, lifetime investment and an extremely stressful and difficult time for anyone. As conveyancing is their profession, I expected an efficient, speedy and reliable service where I was kept informed of progress. This was certainly not the case. Their manner was more like I was a nuisance rather than a paying customer and their lack of communication, arrogance and unprofessional attitude made the whole process even more stressful.
Please learn from my huge mistake and avoid this company at all costs.

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27/03/23 - Reviewed by Pete O'Sullivan

We appointed LCF Law (Leeds) to offer advice on a situation we have ongoing with Trading 212, Financial Conduct Authority and Financial Ombudsman Service.
LCF charged us £3900 inc Vat.
Upon receiving the advice we noticed the evidence we relied upon going forward had been excluded from being mentioned and subsequently received no reasoning as to its exclusion.
We complained to LCF about this untoward action with no acceptable explanation being offered.
We instructed LCF to send out solicitors letters to both Trading 212 and FOS, only to be point blank refused this request.
We had managing partner Simon Stell take on the required internal investigation. In concluding, Simon Stell misrepresented the clear and evidenced facts in order to try and avoid further scrutiny into their operation. A bit like marking your own homework with these internal investigations.
I have emails accusing LCF’s Charles Abraham of refusing my further instructions to send out solicitors letters, this claim has never been contested, however Simon Stell claims it never happened…..why was the claim never contested then Simon??
LCF have evidenced to me they are dishonest in their practice.
To pay a substantial amount of money for advice and then have your further instructions refused is of wrongful action by LCF.
Taking away the option to progress away from the clients is no use to anyone.
It looks like the influence of FCA/FOS is greater than the clients needs.
When lawyers blatantly misrepresent facts and evidence how dishonest they are, they should be struck off.
Let’s see if the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Legal Ombudsman do right by the consumers.
I doubt it as LCF are doing this in 2023.
We instruct lawyers to adequately advise and operate to our instructions and we end up using substantial amounts of time having to correct their unlawful actions.
Shocking state of affairs.

We await Simons response. Please evidence to us how you know Charles Abraham did Not refuse my instructions during our phone call on 30th January 23?

Listen to the phone call Simon or check the emails i sent Charles accusing him of his refusal to take my instructions.

It’s not very often i want to make use of a lawyer, but when i do, i prefer they work with due care, diligence and honesty with intentions to assist with my problems….not add to them.

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29/06/20 - Reviewed by David Parker

A One Star rating is over generous. This firm are a bumbling shambolic firm purporting to be a reputable firm of solicitors Despite 3 letters of complaint to the senior partner following a shambolic land transfer they have failed to engage. Do not trust them. When they get it wrong they bury their heads in the sand. Avoid like Covid 19.

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