Fozia Bibi

In November 2024 I paid Swift Lawyers £459.42 which they told me was required by Stonewater Housing Association In respect of maintenance of the common areas £359.42 and £100.00 transfer of ownership fee. Stonewater has never received this money and I have spent the last 13 months asking Swift Lawyers to provide proof of this payment to Stonewater. As we approach month number 14 they have still not provided this information. In addition, Stonewater has indicated that the maintenance charge would be approximately £178.00 pounds and my numerous requests to Swift Lawyers for verification of how they arrived at the sum of £359.42 have also remained unanswered. In May 2025 Swift Lawyers were fined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority due to a breach of the following rule; Swift Lawyers Limited will pay a financial penalty in the sum of £12,759, under Rule 3.1 (b) of the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedures Rules, This resulted in a referral to our AML Investigations Team, where breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 (MLRs 2007) were also identified. Between 6 October 2011 and 25 June 2017, the firm failed to establish and maintain appropriate and risk-sensitive policies and procedures (P&Ps), pursuant to Regulation 20(1) of the MLRs 2007 Broadly speaking Swift Lawyers failed to keep accurate records regarding the financial transactions carried out at the firm. This is the link to the Solicitors Regulation Authority where you can read a full account of the breaches and the penalties imposed : https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/563659/ I am submitting this review to warn existing and potential clients that based on my experience they may need to be extra vigilant when being asked by Swift Lawyers to make payments and check that the payment being requested is accurate and more importantly that it reaches the correct recipient.”

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Fozia Bibi

I recently instructed Fozia at Swift with regard the purchase of a new property. I have bought & sold several properties over the years, but this is the first time using Swift. I cannot recommend these people enough, Fozia has been polite, professional & extremely informative throughout. Speedy responses to all my e-mails & inquiries, the overall time taken for her to complete her work has been nothing less than amazing...... will definitely be using this company for future transactions

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Fozia Bibi

We commissioned Swift Lawyers to provide conveyancing services when we sold our house. Poor communication, unprofessional service and a complete lack of interest in our sale from Fozia Bibi, our case handler, resulted in our buyers having no trust in the legal service. We ended up switching to a different solicitor who got the job done. No apologies for the unacceptable service we received and to add insult to injury, we are still waiting for £106 to be returned to us from funds on account...this is now 7 months overdue. No one is interested in helping us. Please avoid this firm!

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Fozia Bibi

I would not recommend Swift lawyers to anyone. Not only did they never respond to calls or emails. They lost me the sale of my house !! When I did finally get through to Fozia ! She was not even bothered that my sale had fallen through because the sellers solicitor never got a response to any correspondence so got tired of waiting for her. When I finally got the sellar to change there mind and carry on again. She still did not respond to them or ME and lost the property for a second time.. Do Not Use these people !!

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