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Better story than yours I think Mr Crawford. In my newly qualified days and acting for a lender (which shall remain nameless) without a conveyancing panel, my erstwhile employer Solicitor's firm which acted for this lender, used to insist on innumerable unusual and often unnecessary requirements from the borrowers solicitors which would often drag a transaction on entirely unnecessarily for weeks on end and drive everyone involved to distraction. I can only imagine the senior management of my firm got some sadistic thrill or found it amusing to behave in this way. We used to receive a constant flow of pleading letters and 'phone calls from the borrower's solicitors tearing their hair out trying to persuade us to sent them the loot!

On one occasion, however, I recall the borrower's solicitors cottoned on to this game and 'turned the tables' on us so to speak. The solicitor acting for the borrower had a great sense of humour and spent about 6 months in purposefully evasive and amusing correspondence with us but without complying with all our lender clients ' requirements' so we could not complete the mortgage. Eventually after many months of this game, we were so fed up with all this correspondence and our huge file for this simple transaction, that we caved in a rather and asked them when their client wanted to complete.

The reply came back saying that completion was unnecessary as their clients had actually completed their purchase 5 or 6 months earlier with funds from a different lender but they'd had fun anyway carrying on the correspondence with us!!

LB

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