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Thanks for the help and advice folks but I have enough info now to allow me to make better decisions. No need for more advice as my heads busting.lol. I will update once it's over and done with and hopefully a decent outcome.
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yep, agreed free advice is non existant, how much is the dog worth to you?
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From what I have read here Mark, and I appreciate all the facts are not presented, I would say the breeder is trying to pull a fast one
My advice would be, as this situation seems to be escalating, that you seek proper legal input and stop all communications with the breeder until that legal input has been sought.
My advice would be, as this situation seems to be escalating, that you seek proper legal input and stop all communications with the breeder until that legal input has been sought.
Blame this entirely on the huge cuts in legal aid and general funding cuts.
Quite simply they cannot afford to assign you an adviser, caseworker or solicitor for something which (in the grand scheme of things) is quite trivial and does not pose a risk to your home, welfare, children or job.
It sounds like you've received some great advice from the forum though which is great.
However if you decide to take it further...
I know it can be frustrating at having to pay for legal advice when you feel you've done nothing wrong - but if the dog is that important to you it's worth the expense.
It's all too easy for an innocent party to lose out because they skimped on proper legal assistance.
If you could stand in my shoes in court for just a day, you'd witness the importance of proper legal help / representation.
There is no point just knowing you're right - you need to be able to convey that point in the right and proper manner.
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The state (not just though the LAA) indirectly funds huge swathes of the CAB.
The cuts in LA has a knock on effect to the non-LA subject services such an organisation can provide. Budget for simple cases like this has to be diverted to things that were previously covered by LA. It has a knock on effect.
Clearly I don't think a case like this should be publicly funded.
My point was the top tiers of help within the CAB is reserved for legally aidable people or subjects - not necessarily both at the same time. A topic has to be within scope to provide anything more than information read off of a screen.
A matter like this would not have got past the assessor stage and as such only very basic information would have been given. The OP would not have been given the chance to talk or anyone with any form of legal experience.
Therefore thinking places like the CAB would provide in depth help on a matter like this was expecting a bit much.
But then again there is no reason the OP would know this before calling them.
Anyway, this is off topic. I just wanted to explain to the OP that paid assistance from qualified legal advisors can pay for itself many times over.
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Many thanks for all the comments.The latest update is that after a few not so nice emails from the breeder is that they have come to their senses in part and have admitted they were wrong not to pay for the food and that we haven't broken the contract.With these facts we now have Mia as our own, well their name is still on the paperwork but they don't want any more to do with her.Its only a partial success though as they wont fully sign her over and wont allow us to show her but hey its a weight of our minds at least.
Need to say a special "Thanks" to Ruth for her help, advice and support, you really help us focus on things and see that we were in the right all along.
Need to say a special "Thanks" to Ruth for her help, advice and support, you really help us focus on things and see that we were in the right all along.
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Make sure you've got that in writing and keep it somewhere safe so that they can't start all this up again later. Personally I'd be looking to get their name off the paperwork if they don't want anything further to do with her
