Beware of NML. They are the absolute worst solicitors you can employ.1. Nearly all of the 5 star reviews are clearly fake. Just look at them.2. The people you speak to before employing them are basically just salespeople who have every rebuttle down to a tee and will tell you everything you want to hear to get you to pay them for their services (then leave you in the dark until your court date most likely - like with me)3. They basically just hope that the police made some sort of error in the procedure to get you a no-guilty verdict. (Onetrick ponies)4. When you try to speak to them, you will be through to an outsourced reception service who know nothing.5. They will not actually represent you at court, they hire an outsourced lawyer for this (a poor one at that).6. They will demand more fees every step of the way.7. The accounts team will demand fees and send threatening letters for fees not even owed.My experience was that I was told they will get the evidence from the police station and I needed to hire them ASAP before this evidence is potentially deleted - this is a lie. (Edit - in response to NMLs response. I paid for services on 12th of January and they didn’t contact the police until 20th of February for the evidence to be handed over. So my statement stands correct, they did in fact tell a bold face lie to get paid)the police have no obligation to hand over the evidence until 28 days before the trial - not the initial court date where you plead not guilty. They lied to me about this quite a few times.I decided not to utilise their services after the first court date, because the lawyer, (NML will not let me name), assigned to my case gave me no confidence whatsoever in being able to represent me well. Also, I had already clocked on to the lies told previously. I spoke to someone from NML who mentioned that the police are required to hand over evidence 1 week before this court date - which was just completely incorrect.Now they are demanding fees for me to not use their services anymore. The accounts team hung up on me as I was trying to figure out why I owed them money - which they couldn't justify.They have hired a 3rd party company, DEBTCO LIMITED, Company No. 12867831 to try and get me to pay the "debt" of £700+. This is not a debt which is owed, as the caseworker I spoke to from NML even admitted on the phone. This is what the cost for further services would be. But their tactic to get people to pay them more money is to use a debt collection company to send letters to your house. I didn't agree to them sharing my information with 3rd party companies either. It is just more scare tactics and money-grabbing intentions. They are now suggesting I pay half of the £700 and we call it quits basically and keep trying to take my review down. Which makes me think a) they don’t value their service if they are supposedly “owed money” but are happy to half it at an instant.b) there must be many bad reviews that they successfully get taken down.I would avoid National Motoring Lawyers (NML) at all costs!
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