Normally, we ask you to contact the person you deal with at New Wave Law first if you are unhappy about anything concerning our work for you. Where that is inappropriate or has not been successful, the first thing you need to do is to contact Victoria Simpson (our complaints officer), preferably by email. She will need details of your complaint, including:

• your full name, date of birth and address

• the name of the person you are complaining about

• the type of work we are doing for you

• exactly what it is you are unhappy about

Victoria Simpson
Mobile: 07725 801196
email: victoria.simpson@applycompliancetoday.co.uk

We may ask the member of staff dealing with your case to write to you or contact you to reply to your complaint especially if it appears there has been a misunderstanding.

If this is not appropriate, a stage one review will be carried out to investigate your concerns. This will involve our compliance officer reviewing the file and providing a written summary of findings. We normally allow 2 weeks for such a review to take place. If we need longer we will let you know and explain why.

If you remain dissatisfied after a stage one review, you can contact us again explaining why that is the case. We may then review our decision. This would normally be dealt with by another senior member of the firm. We would aim to carry out such a stage 2 review within 14 days.

In certain circumstances we may decide that it is not appropriate for a stage 2 review to be carried out. If that decision is made we will advise you to contact the Legal Ombudsman immediately if you wish to take matters further.

If you are unhappy after either Stage 1 or Stage 2 of the review process, you may refer your complaint to the Legal Ombudsman. The contact details are:

Legal Ombudsman
PO Box 6806,
Wolverhampton, WV1 9WL

0300 555 0333 enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk

Any complaint to the Ombudsman must usually be made within six months of the date of our final written response.

Further information is available on their web site: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/

Other organisations such as ProMediate www.promediate.co.uk also deal with complaints about legal services, should both you and our firm wish to use such a scheme.

The above procedure can only be used by clients who feel that our service was in some way deficient. In certain circumstances, clients and others may also have the right to report our work to our regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) if you have concerns about a solicitor’s behaviour. Examples include dishonesty or deliberate overcharging, taking or losing money or unfair treatment due to age, disability or other characteristic. More details on how the SRA can assist are available here: www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor/