44 reviews (5/5) and information for Leeds Day, St. Neots

02/08/25 - Reviewed by Diabolical - Avoid!

Absolutely diabolical and would avoid at all costs. My solicitor has been trying to deal with Leeds Day for six months to arrange a simple lease assignment for my business. They have:

1. Turned this into a protracted and unnecessary negotiation (it should a straightforward process), trying to remove the security of tenure rights under the Landlords and Tenants act from the lease.

2. Attempted to increase my ongoing liability for the lease from two years to 15 years!

3. Gave incorrect and misleading information to their client, the landlord. At least when we identified this issue the Trainee Solicitor dealing with us up to that point ‘left’ Leeds Day the next day.

4. Presented us with invoices in excess of the undertakings given and when requested they couldn’t or wouldn’t substantiate them. When challenged further on this they simply reduced their invoice back to the value of the original undertaking. They have been asked on several occasions to explain their costs but have failed to do so.

5. The ‘supervising’ solicitor who took over expressed surprise when she looked at their file and found 281 items, even though she had been on copy of all of them! That was back in June and there have probably been about another 100 email exchanges on it since then and they still haven’t confirmed they are ready to complete.

6. Sent documents to the Landlord for signing that were incorrect and had to be returned, causing further delay. Denied having any knowledge of this on two occasions and finally sent the corrected paperwork back to the landlord two weeks later! We still don’t have confirmation that they are in receipt of the signed documents even though the landlord has confirmed they were completed and sent.

7. Have consistently ignored chasing emails from my solicitor.

This is just a summary. I have lodged a complaint with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (they are members) as I have email and documented evidence to substantiate all of the above.

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31/07/23 - Reviewed by D. Reynolds

STEER CLEAR !!!! These are a bunch of clowns , 4years to sort out a simple probate involving 5 soliciters , the last being a trainee but still being charged £220 per hour , no phone calls returned , despite repeated assurances , pushy and short at times , they seam to forget we instructed them not the other way round , this for year process was conducted by my elderly mother and aunt , and in my mothers case her health deteriorated ( altzhiemers) and i was told quite gleefully if i wanted to question any part of leeds days involvement , i would need to produce a certificate stating my mothers mental health condition wich would hold it up for months maybe years ( almost like a threat) they kept back £20k of inheritance , but were still not sure why . This was our second involvement with leeds day and on both occasions its been extremely poor , i would advise to steer well clear unless you like months even years of frustration , deffinatly no stars given here.

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