This review is for the Bristol branch.
I am making this review on behalf of a friend. I’ve been helping my friend in a claim of professional negligence against a solicitor who represented them in court, my friend being the Defendant in court.
My friend claimed on her home insurance and ARC Legal put forward Lyons Davidson to review the claim. ARC say their solicitors provide a clear and transparent service. Unfortunately, Lyons Davidson do not live up to that claim by far and they have wrongly stated that the chances of success with the claim are low. The basis of their assessment is extremely flawed.
Lyons Davidson have made myriad errors in their assessment. Their letter of advice only dealt with the last 25% of the case history and they have taken a clearly fraudulent claim against my friend at face value, failing to note at least 17 fraudulent points by the Claimant (documented, not hearsay). I have written to the Lyons Davidson solicitor responsible for reviewing my friend’s claim but they stated:
“I will not be undertaking any substantive work unless and until I have some certainty that I will be paid.”
They have made errors and want more money to put those errors right. The response has been arrogant, to say the least. If you buy faulty goods, and can prove it, you don’t have to buy another in order for the faulty goods to be corrected but you do with Lyons Davidson.
In total, Lyons Davidson have had 4 opportunities to get their facts straight and correct their serious mistakes but they have refused on all occasions. The list of their errors and omissions is quite extensive and includes failing to note that the solicitor who represented my friend in court prevented, in writing, my friend from submitting witness evidence, at the same time submitting witness evidence to the court themselves that was fabricated (NB: this is not speculation, there are documents proving this that Lyons Davidsons have omitted to read despite their letter of engagement stating that they would read everything in the relevant file).
The Lyons Davidson solicitor says they have 30 years’ experience. I’ve been able to read for over 60 years and am capable of understanding how fraudulent the claim was against my friend. The law also sees me capable of acting on a jury (I have done jury service twice, several years apart) and can easily assimilate facts and know when someone is being very dishonest, particularly when that dishonesty is so very clearly shown in documents that Lyons Davidson have ignored.
Lyons Davidson’s lack of a suspicious mind and naivety has led them to make serious errors and they have repeatedly refused to correct those errors. They have documents that prove what I say but they have ignored them and now they want money to put their serious mistakes right.
The truth about the claim against my friend is in the 75% of the documents that Lyons Davidson have in their possession but which they have refused to look at. It really is quite easy to see the dishonesty of the claim against my friend and I find it astounding that Lyons Davidson have not reviewed those documented facts in their possession.
I would strongly suggest that you give Lyons Davidson a wide berth. Our justice system is supposedly designed to ensure fair play; however, with solicitors like Lyons Davidson around (and the one who represented my friend in court), the reality is somewhat different. Money rather than fair play is their motive and they do not care about their clients’ right to justice. My friend has lost over £70,000 and all her inheritance because of negligence by solicitors and not because she has done anything wrong (I can prove that statement, by the way).
