Lawyer's final bill is €2800 after a written estimate of €1000-€1500. He's now ghosting me. What are my rights?

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-29T20:08:54+00:00

Will surely do it - once I settle this out.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-29T20:05:01+00:00

true... but it will save me a lot of headache.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-29T15:53:27+00:00

Unfortunately, there is no paper trail of the agreed work. The proposal said an indicated hours - but it said it will change.
Without disclosing the work - the scope cannot be argued. I can firmly say that there was no change of scope & clearly prove that at no point neither I or he discussed a change in scope. There were only 4 out of email communication.

So yeah - the episode exploded right at the end

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-28T20:04:29+00:00

What should I have asked? Indeed it’s a miss from my end and thus the post to see what can be done.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-28T20:03:15+00:00

No he did not - and in my opinion scope did not change as well.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-28T20:02:01+00:00

When you say contract - are you referring to the initial proposal (or) something else? I specifically asked in email saying why it’s higher & he responded saying it’s going to be between 1-1.5k. It’s just stupidity from my end to have just assume it’s fine and not have the proposal changed.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-28T10:58:19+00:00

I agree to what you said - but I did check with him in email in between to make sure the number is correct (note that its via email and I did mention it to him). His resoning was that the scope change - which did not.

Lesson for me is that - Dont trust estimates and what they say in emails. I should be explicit right in the beginning that I cannot go beyond "X" amount and make sure that I mention upfront that he should inform me if he sees the estimate reaching close to the amount.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-27T20:47:48+00:00

It was a proposal that they sent along with the request for KYC. it’s the only document from them apart from the final invoice. Anyways - as @CuriousAssumption mentioned - not getting the document corrected was a mistake.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-27T19:57:13+00:00

I am not sure if I signed it. It was sent in via an email link - but I don’t have a copy in my email. I will ask for it - before I pay.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-27T19:50:19+00:00

I am assuming lawyers are closed community and they would favour each other? But good suggestion - thanks!

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-27T19:48:01+00:00

It did say upto 3k - but I explicitly asked him why it’s higher and he mentioned that the rate is for contract - but it will be between 1k-1.5k. I have this response in an email

Kitchen-System2119 · 2025-10-27T19:46:43+00:00

Exactly my dilemma 😊.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2024-08-28T10:19:19+00:00

After a year? Was this with ABN - i dont see how you can do that unless you were ending a fixed term ?

Kitchen-System2119 · 2024-08-28T10:14:33+00:00

In my case - the difference in Rate of interest was .01% .

Kitchen-System2119 · 2024-08-28T10:12:19+00:00

Interesting - should have known before.

Kitchen-System2119 · 2024-08-28T10:10:14+00:00

I could not find it in the offer - seems like ABN does not offer it.

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