sorry - state the developer is their only client and had NO responsibility to the buyer (x68) who all thought this solicitor was representing them. I am more concerned that false statements can be made with no due diligence by a solicitor.

What would happen if a solicitor made a false / untrue and knowingly misleading statement(s) to a buyer in a contract they wrote and letters sent out to that buyer. 1) they knew never had legal representation and never asked if they had 2) received legal fees from that buyer 3) carried out a notary process for that buyer 4) can not prove with any evidence how they satisfied the title deed could be sold 5) the villa model had planning permission granted 6) and finally stayed silent to knowing all of the contract, opinion and statements by them had become an impossibility.

suing a solicitor for false represenation

Hi, Thank you for accepting my application. I think this will shock many but not all and I hope to hear some honest and impartial advice. I purchased a property in 2007 in Bulgaria but everything is in UK law, contracts, solicitor and accounts. It was a staged payment process with each stage requiring a build before paying for it. In my Memorandum of Sale I paid for a UK solicitor fees and was contacted by a UK solicitor. Even though in hindsight I now see where on a couple of well worded occasions they point out that they are the developers solicitor they still gave advice, carried out instructions such as a notary, informed what I needed to do, took receipt of paperwork they sent out to me and ultimately said what I would receive from them. A separate argument is if I was they client, they say I am not as no business t&c so they have no duty of care to me. (or 68 others that thought they were acting for us as well) At no time ever did they request the independent solicitor details of the buyer as verbally said they would be dealing with it all and after all we had paid them to convey. Where the bones of this case I feel fall is that they made misrepresentations that are untrue and were misleading in a contract and in paperwork they sent out. Where this may be regarded as opinion it was in an area they state to be experts in and induced me into a contract. Silence also played a part as they wilfully allowed further stage payments to be made knowing that the first critical stage ie title deed transfer. had not even happened. The solicitor wrote the contract, sent out the contract, accepted the contract and exchanged and signed it on the developers behalf. The solicitor is fairly large yet refuses, can not produce any evidence to show planning permits, planning permission or any other reports of due diligence exist prior to making statements and clauses in contracts that are proven to be untrue and misleading to a lot of people. Has anyone experience of suing a solicitor that for this argument is not the solicitor of the person suing them? Has anyone come across some case similar? A person who as not represented and that solicitor knew that and is the same for a lot more buyers rather then stupidity and greed or thinking you know better. I believe I hit the points of fraud by misrepresentation, learned falsity by the silence over 4 year. The developer is being investigated for fraud over its several projects but in Administration. From hotels - crops - landbanking, you can guess who wrote the contracts yet excepts no responsibility to any of the 100s of now creditors. I look forward to your comments.