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UHi,
I would like to seek advice and comments from this group about a legal notice for a friend of mine. I don’t want get into the personal details, but here is the high level information. My friend has received a legal notice from a lawyer representing his family members with false allegations, for which he didn’t reply to lawyer and preferred for a discussion and settlement through meeting amidst a group of relatives and elders. He denied the allegations in these meetings and later all parties came to an agreement and the alleged issue has been settled. This settlement has been not recorded on paper and all lawyers suggested him to ignore the alleged notice he received to avoid re touching the conflict again with the involved parties as the issue has been settled now. But my friend wanted to send a reply to the lawyer who sent him the notice to bring a closure about the current status saying that issues are resolved. So my question is is it okay from my friend to directly respond to lawyer’s notice?
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MIts okay to respond however i would suggest that the settlement be done in writing. even if it is not a monetary agreement. Whatever the settlement over the issue has been should be taken in writing along with the signatures of all the parties involved so as to have written proof of settlement for future evidentiary purposes. If the other parties deny the settlement only a word of mouth will not be sufficient as evidence
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UYeah, but the other party is not willing to sign and due to their distorted egos and my friend is scared they might use it again in future to blackmail. So he just wanted to respond by himself to tha lawyer directly mentioning the status so that atleast him denying the allegations gets recorded in writing. Is that okay?
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Mif they are not willing to sign that means they want the option to screw your friend over and go back on their word. He can reply to the notice with specifics that pertaining to the issue they have met, make sure to put the specifics, on what date, what was discussed and what was the conclusion and also the fact that it was a verbal agreement at the request of THEIR client. And also say that youd be willing to put these terms in writing. It is again not as good as an agreement but if they dont explicitly deny the contents then that would be good enough. Send it through registered speed post and keep the receipts.
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