Response to Could you sue your solicitor?

Quite possibly, you can complain to the OSS (Office for the supervision of solicitors) and their contact details can be found on the Law Society Website www.lawsociety.co.uk. However due to the extent of this problem throughout the UK, and the money to be made (by solicitors) and lost (by us, or the mortgage company) getting a solicitor to admit that he had made a mistake will be difficult to prove. In any case they always look after their own which is why the entire justice system in this country needs to be overhauled. BTW in 1990 the wording of the MIG's were so ambiguous as to who they protected (ie you or the lender) that they were extensively rewritten in 1993 to ensure that it was the lender that they were designed to protect in the case of a shortfall. If you have an early MIG, the chances are that it does not specify who is protected by it (The MIG) The reluctance of your mortgage company would suggest that it is one of the pre 1993 ones.

I would SARN the building society and the solicitor (you wont get anything out of them, but it is good to annoy them) and use all the areas on this site to create havoc. Good Luck

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