Legal Notice

• Formal communication in Civil/Criminal matter to a person or entity informing him that you intend to take legal proceedings against him/her/it, if he/she fails to comply with some specified condition.
• Many times a layperson do not know the legal importance and meaning of the usual words which use in a casual manner, engaging a qualified lawyer helps in drafting the legal notice.
• Once the legal notice is dispatched than you cannot make any changes in that and later on also you cannot make any contradictory statement from what you have already stated in a legal notice.
• In your consulting session with the lawyer, explain the information in detail with names of parties involved; address, dates when commitments were made and not honoured, challenges and issues faced, any previous attempts of dialogue etc..
• The lawyer carefully studies your information shared, draft relevant and required notes in a legal language clearly mentioning the reason for sending the notice, and also mention proper legal provision pertaining to the obligation between the parties and its legal status so if the opposite party is on wrong footing then may fulfil their part of obligation and resolve, in the best interest of time and money, out of court.
• The expectation is after the notice is received by the other party; he/she will reply back, but as I ethically believe it’s a good practice to follow and usually I call up the person to whom notice is sent requesting to come up for counselling or discussion and amicably settle down the matter and to save the relationship.
• If you get a legal notice, and believe the notice sent or the information in the notice is not accurate or need to contest and legal help, approach a qualified lawyer who can take necessary actions.
• Share your side of the story and the facts with date and time when the events occurred to the lawyer, so he will review the notice you have received and will draft a reply based on the facts collected from you.
• Your lawyer will also in sometimes communicate with the lawyer of the other party to enable a smooth flow and try resolving matters at your end.