Consultation on our draft strategy for 2020-23 26/03/2024 Consultation-on-our-draft-strategy-for-2020-23 Tagged: Press release Office for Legal Complaints Consultation strategy and business plan
Best practice complaint handling guide 26/03/2024 The aim of this guide is to help you improve the overall service you provide to your customers. By sharing best practice with you, we hope you will be able to reduce the number of complaints that are escalated to the Legal Ombudsman and improve service standards across the profession. Tagged: Signposting complaint handling best practice scheme rules language responding to complaints final response remedies
Client not advised about six month rule 26/03/2024 A woman who complained to her solicitor she had not been properly represented in court was not sign-posted to the Legal Ombudsman Tagged: Six month limit Our rules
How to complain to your service provider 26/03/2024 This factsheet will tell you more about making a complaint to your legal service provider. Tagged: complaining to a lawyer complaining to a solicitor factsheets consumer journey
Celebrating Black History Month 26/03/2024 This article is part of LeO News, edition 24. Tagged: Newsletter
Ensuring people contact us at the right time 26/03/2024 We’ve made changes to help ensure people contact us at the right time – once their legal service provider has had a chance to look into their complaint. This includes launching a new leaflet that service providers can send. Tagged: Improvements Premature complaints consumer journey Customer journey
Lack of evidence 26/03/2024 The solicitor and client were both unable to prove whether a payment for services had been made... Tagged: Our decisions
Corporate Publications 26/03/2024 Corporate publications including annual reports, business plans and board information Tagged: Corporate resources FAQs Governance Reports and Plans Consultations Corporate policies
Information on our accessibility provision 06/08/2024 The Legal Ombudsman website has been developed to best practice coding conventions and, where possible, corresponds with guidelines stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 Tagged: accessibility feedback