- Head office address
- TEWKESBURY + 5 other offices View contact details
- Website
- www.dflegal.com
- Type of firm
- Recognised body since 10/02/2022, authorised for all legal services
- Regulator
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
- SRA number
- 420596
- Regulatory record
- Show regulatory record
We set the rules for this firm. There are benefits and protections for customers of SRA-regulated firms.
Important information
- The firm can provide all types of law, including reserved legal activities
- Everyone working in this firm must follow our rules
- If things go wrong, the firm must have insurance cover
- If things go wrong and your money is lost, our compensation fund may be able to reimburse you
- If things go wrong we may be able to get your documents and money back
Trading names lists the names this firm uses now. Previous names lists names this firm has used in the past.
These are the SRA-regulated people in this organisation.
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Christine Mary Williams
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP
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David John Ferraby
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP
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Kamrul Alam Zaman
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP
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Matthew John Penley
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP + 1 Others
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Morgan Fleur Fuller
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP
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Nicola Suzanne Thorpe
SRA-regulated solicitor
Works at DF LEGAL LLP
Areas of law shows the sort of work this firm does. Reserved activities lists the special legal jobs this firm can do because we regulate it as a law practice.
DECISION HISTORY
This section gives the disciplinary and regulatory decisions published under our decision publication policy.
Decision - Sanction
Outcome: Rebuke
Outcome date: 15 November 2024
Published date: 10 December 2024
Firm details
No detail provided:
Outcome details
This outcome was reached by SRA decision.
Decision details
It was agreed that we would:
1.1.1 Rebuke the firm.
1.1.2 Publish the rebuke.
1.1.3 Direct the firm to pay the sum of £1,350 in relation to the SRA's costs of investigating this matter.
Reasons/basis
Short summary of decision
We have issued the firm with a rebuke for failure to co-operate with the Legal Ombudsman's investigation of a client's complaint against the firm, and a failure to provide information requested by the SRA.
Facts of the misconduct
The firm did not answer a Legal Ombudsman request for documents and information made on 15 February 2023, until 7 September 2023. After writing to the firm six times chasing for the information with no substantive response, in April 2023 the Legal Ombudsman submitted a misconduct referral to the SRA in respect of the firm's failure to co-operate with its investigation.
In May 2023 and on multiple subsequent occasions, the SRA wrote to the firm requesting an explanation as to why it had not provided the requested information to the Legal Ombudsman.
The requested information and documentation were only provided to the Legal Ombudsman on 7 September 2023, almost seven months after the initial request.
This was in response to correspondence from the SRA on 6 September 2023 stating that it would be applying its Enforcement Strategy to determine an appropriate outcome, given the firm's failure to comply with both the SRA's and the firm's own deadlines for providing the information.
The firm has to date not explained its failure to co-operate with the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA.
It was found that the firm:
- did not answer a Legal Ombudsman request for documents and information made on 15 February 2023 until 7 September 2023 and
- has not explained its failure to co-operate with the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA,
and in doing so, the firm breached paragraphs 3.2 and 3.3(a) of the Code of Conduct for Firms.
SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Paragraph 3.2 You cooperate with the SRA, other regulators, ombudsmen and those bodies with a role overseeing and supervising the delivery of, or investigating concerns in relation to, legal services.
Paragraph 3.3 You respond promptly to the SRA and
- provide full and accurate explanations, information and documentation in response to any requests or requirements.
