Our Commitment
We aim to provide the best possible service to our clients and, in order to do this, we need to know from you if you feel dissatisfied. Should you have any occasion to feel unhappy about our service, or about the bill, please contact the person responsible for your matter to discuss your concerns. Often, many problems can be resolved in this way. Should you wish to make a complaint, our Client Care Director, Miss Narita Bahra, is the person who deals with these matters and will be prepared to meet with you, where necessary, to discuss your complaint. If your complaint is about Miss Bahra then it will be referred to another Director of our firm. We have a procedure in place which details how we handle complaints which is available upon request. Our contact details are as follows:
A: 81 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DD
W: www.garricklaw.com
T: 0203 196 7822
E: enquiries@garricklaw.com
Making a complaint will not affect how we handle your case.

What will happen next?
We will send you a letter acknowledging receipt of your complaint within 5 working days of receiving it, enclosing a copy of this procedure.
We will investigate your complaint. This will normally involve passing your complaint to our Client Care Director, Miss Narita Bahra, who will review your matter file and speak to the member of staff who acted for you.
You will be sent a detailed written reply to your complaint, including the suggestions for resolving the matter, within 10 working days of sending you the acknowledgement latter.
If you would prefer a meeting to discuss our written reply to your complaint please contact us to arrange so within 5 working days from the date of our letter.
If you are still not satisfied, you should contact us again and we will arrange for another Director within the firm to review the decision.
We will write to you within 10 working days of receiving your request for a review, confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons.
If we have to change any of the above timescales, we will let you know and explain why.

The Legal Ombudsman
If you are still not satisfied with our handling of your complaint, or if we have not dealt with it in 8 weeks, you can ask the Legal Ombudsman to consider the complaint. We would hope that this does not become necessary and that we can resolve matters between ourselves. Contact details are as follows:
PO Box 6806
Wolverhampton
WV1 9WJ
0300 555 0333
enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk
www.legalombudsman.org.uk

The Legal Ombudsman expects complaints to be made to them within one year of the date of the act or omission about which you are concerned, or within one year of you realising there was a concern. You must also refer your concerns to the Legal Ombudsman within six months of our final response to you.

Complaints in relation to bills
The procedure above also applies to complaints arising concerning our bill. There may also be a right to object to the bill by applying to the court for an assessment of the bill under Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974; The Legal Ombudsman may not consider a complaint about a bill if you have applied to the Court for assessment of that bill.

Raising concerns with our regulator
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) can help you if you are concerned about our behaviour. This could be for things like dishonesty, taking or losing your money or treating you unfairly because of your age, a disability or other characteristic. You can find information about raising your concerns with the SRA at www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor.