From: "tim" <520061495900.removethis@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: buying a house without an estate agent
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:44:50 +0100
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"Jim Ley"  wrote in message news:40128833.94821325@news.cis.dfn.de...
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:20:44 +0000, john boyle
>  wrote:
> > You tell him who your solicitor is and he 
> >tells you who his is and then you tell your solicitor who his solicitor 
> >is and how much youve agreed to pay.
> 
> Could you use the same solicitor, and save a bit more?

IIRC only if you are both already clients of the same solicitor.

Otherwise if you both approach the same solicitor they will refuse 
to act for the second party to avoid a conflict of interest (and it is 
as much in their interest to do this as yours)

tim

> 
> Jim.