Appalling - I will personally not use Eric Robinson again.
Case - Female solicitor from the ER office in Southampton, engaged for an eviction case.
It started off normally but in the end not only did my solicitor not do a very good job but she didn't even turn up to court and sent an agency para-legal who had not even been briefed - it was horrendous!
I stood there in court with my vulnerable, dementia ridden mother (who owned the house) and who I'd had to extract from the care home that morning to attend court. My mother didn't entirely understand why the tenants would not pay and why the lawyer who had promised to come to court, was not there to help, having been paid handsomely for almost a year at this point!!!
We would have pursued a complaint with the SRA but I have been too distraught after the loss of my mother to cope.
We used the firm to assist with an eviction from my mother's house after non-payment of over 18 months (money for my mother's care home bill after a severe in her 80's) and it was not handled very well. My mother was a victim of the tenants not paying denying her care and then it felt like she was being treated as the 'bad guy' by Eric Robinson.
My mother died partly via the stress of the case and the solicitor could not understand why I might be upset, she was very unsympathetic during phone calls and got defensive when we questioned her work - rightly so it turns out.
In despair, I asked another local firm to represent me and speak to her as I was now living in a world of anxiety thinking about speaking to her directly, she was so unpleasant by this point.
The new firm then confirmed that she had missed a large chunk of money within the claim and settled the affair much more swiftly and sympathetically - greatly meeting our expectation level.
Needing a lawyer, means you need help and you pay them A LOT so you at least expect good service and professional results, regardless of emotion/empathy.
Eric Robinson will be remembered by our family and friends for all the wrong reasons.