Legal query

[93-DY-SAM]

Quick question for the legal people on here.

We are involved in a legal dispute over a boundary with someone who purchased land beside us a few years ago. They initially made direct contact with us, and we went to our solicitor. They then had a solicitor involved very briefly, but over the past year, they have been directly contacting our solicitor with all kinds of letters and emails demanding proof or this and that. This all seems like a play so that they are leeching money from us as we have to pay our solicitors' time, but they have no legal costs.

My query is, can they keep contacting our solicitor directly, or can we insist that any communications to our solicitor go through their solicitor, so at the very least, they are also incurring expenses? It might make them think twice about sending communications/requests to our solicitor.

[brokencrossbar1]

Quick question for the legal people on here.

We are involved in a legal dispute over a boundary with someone who purchased land beside us a few years ago. They initially made direct contact with us, and we went to our solicitor. They then had a solicitor involved very briefly, but over the past year, they have been directly contacting our solicitor with all kinds of letters and emails demanding proof or this and that. This all seems like a play so that they are leeching money from us as we have to pay our solicitors' time, but they have no legal costs.

My query is, can they keep contacting our solicitor directly, or can we insist that any communications to our solicitor go through their solicitor, so at the very least, they are also incurring expenses? It might make them think twice about sending communications/requests to our solicitor.

Normally where a solicitor is on record for both parties there would be no contact directly between either solicitor and the opposing party. I would be asking your own solicitor what is the position there. It would seem to me that they have disengaged with their own solicitor and going self representation (this is the worst of the worst to deal with!). Like any legal dispute your solicitor has the power to take control of it.  Boundary disputes are complex and costly but very fixable so depending on what you want then your solicitor should push on hard. Have been involved in a few of these in the past so message me offline if you need a steer

[Milltown Row2]

Would recommend to everyone, add legal costs to your house insurance, be the best £50 quid you spend

[Solo_run]

Would recommend to everyone, add legal costs to your house insurance, be the best £50 quid you spend

And for car insurance

[David McKeown]

Would recommend to everyone, add legal costs to your house insurance, be the best £50 quid you spend

And for car insurance

Oh I disagree entirely. I had it on mine and the legal advice they were providing was diabolical. Particularly if you have an English insurer who was doesn't appreciate the difference in road traffic law between England and Northern Ireland.

House insurance may be different but only if it as a minimum allows you to choose from a fairly wide panel of solicitors. Some do and some don't.

[Milltown Row2]

Would recommend to everyone, add legal costs to your house insurance, be the best £50 quid you spend

And for car insurance

Oh I disagree entirely. I had it on mine and the legal advice they were providing was diabolical. Particularly if you have an English insurer who was doesn't appreciate the difference in road traffic law between England and Northern Ireland.

House insurance may be different but only if it as a minimum allows you to choose from a fairly wide panel of solicitors. Some do and some don't.

Currently using it and there are some hoops to jump through but they handed to a team here who are taking it on board. That's through the house insurance though

[David McKeown]

Would recommend to everyone, add legal costs to your house insurance, be the best £50 quid you spend

And for car insurance

Oh I disagree entirely. I had it on mine and the legal advice they were providing was diabolical. Particularly if you have an English insurer who was doesn't appreciate the difference in road traffic law between England and Northern Ireland.

House insurance may be different but only if it as a minimum allows you to choose from a fairly wide panel of solicitors. Some do and some don't.

Currently using it and there are some hoops to jump through but they handed to a team here who are taking it on board. That's through the house insurance though

I've no experience with house insurance but when I had a car accident I was referred to my insurers legal department. They recommended a 50/50 split when my car was stationery and was hit from behind at about 50 mph and the driver had been convicted of careless driving.

Suffice to say I quickly moved on and received about 10x the compensation they were suggesting they'd secure.