• Bell Lax pioneered no win no fee arrangements for commercial disputes. If you lose, we lose, therefore we always fight for you.

  • Bell Lax pioneered no win no fee arrangements for commercial disputes. If you lose, we lose, therefore we always fight for you.

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Conveyancing solicitors negligence - failure to identify mine shaft

Our clients approached us because a survey revealed there was mine shaft under their house. This was a surprise to them because they had paid their conveyancing solicitor for a coal mining search when they bought the property and he hadn’t said that there was a problem. Bell Lax investigated and found that the conveyancing solicitor had charged for a coal mining coal search but had not in fact made one. Under a ‘no win, no fee’ agreement Bell Lax successfully recovered £30,000 in damages as well as costs for the loss in value of the house.

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