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GAZETTE
SEPTEMBER 1985
Why is
ourmanager's
door always
open?
Conveyancing
(Flat Development)
Referral Service
1. Terms of the Consultancy Service
(1) The principle upon which the consultancy service will
work is that the consulting firm will not accept from
the client within 2 years of the completion of the
Consultancy Assignment, any work of the type
which, at the time when the consulting firm was first
retained in relation to that client's affairs, was being
carried out by the referring firm, without the
approval of the referring firm.
This will not, however, be an absolute rule as
obviously circumstances can arise, such as the death
of a sole practitioner, in a practice where the client
would insist on going elsewhere anyway.
(2) The client shall remain the client of the referring
solicitor unless there is some special arrangement to
the contrary. The consultant will not, without the
referring solicitor's consent consult directly with the
client. Again, however, this cannot be an absolute
rule as in certain circumstances it would not be right
for the consultant to be in a situation where the facts
in which they were being asked to advise were limited
only to those which the referring firm gave them or if
the advice was being conveyed at secondhand to the
client.
(3) The referring solicitor would be personally
responsible for the consultant's fee.
(4) The referring solicitor may charge the consultant's
fee as an item of outlay or absorb such fee and include
an equivalent amount in his professional charges to
the client.
(5) It is not envisaged that a fee would be payable to the
referring firm by the consultancy firm.
(6) The service will be provided on the basis that the
solicitor to whom the case is referred will be accepting
responsibility for the Flat Scheme on the basis of the
documents made available to him by the referring
solicitor.
2.
Consultants
(1) A list of the firms prepared to participate in this
service is now available at the Society.
(2) A member of the panel may decline to accept a
referral in any case without specifying a reason for
such refusal.
(3) While neither the Conveyancing Committee nor the
Law Society can accept responsibility for the advice
given by the consultant the Committee will be
monitoring the operation of the scheme and will be
anxious to hear of any problems that arise and will
endeavour to assist in solving them.
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ANSWER:
We could try to be funny
and say it was to let the bank drafts in.
But the truth is it's just the way we
operate. Personal, attentive service at all times.
Total access to the manager. Longer hours than
most banks. And higher interest on deposits.
They may sound like small things. But when
you add up the little things we do and most
banks don't, you'll understand why our
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