Emma Reilly

Review of Prakken d'Oliveira Human Right...

Unfortunately not recommended at all. Querying exc...

Unfortunately not recommended at all. Querying excessive time spent (14 hours to delete some sentences from a 2-page draft letter) led to the lawyer ditching my case when I actually needed advice. If you are prepared to remain silent in the face of over-charging, perhaps the legal advice is good. I cannot comment on that, as I never received any.

In response to what was posted:
(1) The "services" have as yet yielded no result whatsoever. A letter was proposed, without any legal content, that simply shortened a two-page submission I had proposed. This took over 12 hours, and was not even in Dutch. I insisted on the addition of specific legal references, which I myself proposed.
(2) What is erroneously referred to as a "lack of mutual trust" was in fact the lawyer objecting to me questioning (1) the time spent and (2) why the lawyer left on holiday without bothering to inform me she had not sent the letter as agreed. The causal relationship is in the other direction than that presented below.