Cost Order

[Happychappy1]

Hello everyone

I need a little help please.



A solicitor accepted money from me that the court ordered needed to be paid. It was a cost order against my sister because she lost a case against his client. It was over 100k. The solicitor asked me for documentation for the payment I transferred to him. He said it was needed for AML purposes. I accepted that but never provided him anything. He anyway kept the money and ignored me when I asked further questions about why he needed so much paperwork from me. Any idea why he would take the money and not talk to me to explain exactly why he needs so much paperwork from me? He was the one that wanted all this paperwork in the beginning and then disappeared when I asked for clarification. I guess he's fullfiled his duty because he asked for proof/source of funds and can say it was never provided to him so he kept the money. I don't think I've done anything wrong though.




Thank you

HC-1

[atticus]

AML = anti money laundering. Solicitors are required to satisfy themselves of the legitimacy of the funds.

[Happychappy1]

Hello. That's exactly my point. How has he managed to satisfy himself of the legitimacy of the funds? Ive never provided him anything of the paperwork he asked for.

[atticus]

Re post 4*, point 1: it is the Solicitors Regulation Authority that carries out those functions.

* has post 4 been written by ChatGPT or similar?

[Huxie]

Definitely some kind of bot. There’s at least a couple of them that have been posting recently, similar sort of naming convention for the username and if you ‘Google’ them, they all appear to be posting to the same forums.

TiviamTonal
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TahuluLimia (now ‘Inactive’ on here)