For everyones information and by way of an update. I have not paid Mr Walker any further money - as yet although I will owe him a couple of hundred when (if) the matter is successfully concluded.(posted 8324 days ago)On his advice I have submitted a defence based on the MIG (and asked the court to ensure I get sight of the poicy) and the 6 year rule. On the allocation questionnaire I asked for the fast-track.
I have now recieved notification from the court that the case has been allocated to the multi-track (but don't yet know what this implies)
From SARN documents I have established that UCB did not take the best price offered for the property and also took only one valuation when selling. I have also a document refering to 'full and final settlement' for the £6,300 my co-owner paid them some years ago.
I intend to add these to the defence and to serve Lean & Co (UCB's solicitors) with an interogatory asking if their MIG documentation is as the document held by PW. This should force them to reveal their hand iin the MIG department.
Although this all sounds pretty organised I still feel that I am swimming uphill and just the idea of someone taking me to court for £44k is a bit intimidating. I tried discussing thing with a solicitor but they wanted to charge a fortune to just read the files and then said they would pass things straight to a barrister. This sounded like a bit of usery going on so I have not pursued this any furhter to date. However, if I don't get some really satisfactory results therough discussion with PW in the next week or so a recommendation of a good solicitor in this field would be appreciated.