Feedback & Complaints Procedure
Feedback:
We welcome feedback on all aspects of our service (both Counsel and Clerking). Positive feedback is always nice but should you (or our client) be dissatisfied with our service and need to raise a concern or make a complaint, you should first refer the matter to us by calling our clerking team anytime at (+44 020 7043 0648) in UK, or (+34 910 80 08 84) in Spain, or by email to clerk@delcantochambers.com. It is our aim, upon receipt of feedback, concern or a complaint to deal with it quickly and efficiently.
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Feedback, Complaints Procedure and Unilateral Withdrawal
- The professional conduct of lawyers is governed by the General Statute of the Spanish Bar (R.D. 658/2001), and by the Code of Conduct of the Spanish Bar and the Code of the Bar of the European Union. Articles 80 to 93 of the General Statute for Spanish Lawyers specifically regulate disciplinary responsibility.
- Feedback:
- We welcome feedback on all aspects of our service (both Counsel and Clerking). Positive feedback is always nice but should you (or our client) be dissatisfied with our service and need to raise a concern or make a complaint, you should first refer the matter to us by calling our clerking team anytime to (+34 910 80 08 84) or by email to clerk@delcantochambers.com.
- It is our aim, upon receipt of feedback, concern or a complaint to deal with it quickly and efficiently. We should respond to your complaint within 28 days of the date of receipt of such complaint.
- If after receiving response to our complaint you think that our services do not correspond with the quality and the services we intended for or you think a lawyer has violated the rules of professional conduct, you can proceed to the following:
Complaints Procedure:
- You can either write us a letter to our main business address in Spain below or write an email to our Clerk to Del Canto Chambers indicating the “Complaint Issue and the professional involved”.
- For Address Purposes:
- Identity: Del Canto Chambers, S.L.
- NIF: B87536389
- Postal Address: Calle Alcalá, 54 – 4º Izq. 28014, Madrid
- Identity: Del Canto Chambers Tax Legal SLP
- NIF: B09763400
- Postal Address: Carrer del Sindicat, 74, 07002 Palma de Mallorca
- Telephone: +34 910 800 884
- Data Protection Officer: Del Canto Chambers
- We keep documents and records relating to every aspect of the service we have provided. Our internal systems and case management software provides a real-time audit trail of actions and communications. We will ensure all documents and data relating to any complaint are kept confidential and only disclosed so far as is necessary for:
- the investigation and resolution of the complaint.
- internal review for the purposes of improving our practice.
- complying with requests from the Code of Conduct in the exercise of monitoring and, or auditing functions.
- The disclosure of internal documents relating to the handling of the complaint, such as the minutes of a meeting held to discuss a particular complaint to the Professional Bar Association for the further resolution or investigation of the complaint, is not a requirement.
- A record will be kept of each complaint, all steps taken in response to it and the outcome of the complaint, together with a copy of all correspondence, including electronic mail, and all other documents generated in response to the complaint. For further information, please click here: https://delcantochambers.com/customer-services-policy/.
- If the response to your complaint is not satisfactory you may file a standard complaint form to ‘The Madrid Bar Association’ Colegio de Abogados de Madrid and download a copy of the complaint form. For further instructions, please check the complaints procedure in https://web.icam.es/en/the-public/complaint-procedures/ or contact the ‘Madrid Bar Association’ by:
- Personally, with the Registry of the Madrid Bar Association, located at C/ Serrano 11, planta baja, 28001 Madrid.
- By post, addressed to the Professional Deontology Dept. of the Madrid Bar Association, C/ Serrano 11, planta baja, 28001 Madrid.
- By email, to the following address: deontologia@icam.es.
Or file a standard complaint form to the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Baleares www.icaib.org
and download a copy of the complaint form. For further instructions, please check the complaints procedure in https://www.icaib.org/ciudadanos/sugerencias/
or contact the ‘Baleares Bar Association’ by:
- Personally or by Post, with the Secretary Registry of the Association, located at La Rambla, 10 · 07003 Palma. (Illes Balears).
- By phone, (+34) 971 17 94 00
- By email, to the following address: secretaria@icaib.org.
Option in the UK- Complaint to the Legal Ombudsman
- We hope that you are happy with the professional services provided and we find a solution to your complaint but if you are dissatisfied with the service, and we fail to deal with your complaint and satisfaction, in the United Kingdom you can contact the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) directly.
- The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) is a free, impartial and independent service set up by the Government which deals with complaints about the service you have received.
- The Legal Ombudsman’s details are as follows:
- Legal Ombudsman
- PO Box 6806
- Wolverhampton
- WV1 9WJ
- Tel: 0300 555 0333
- Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk
- Web: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
- Weblink: Data centre | Legal Ombudsman