Supporting Letters from family and friends

[HakmedBond]

I am writing to ask about your experiences with supplying support letters signed by family and friends.

In your experiences, did you get your solicitor/legal representative to write letters on behalf of them for them to sign or did they write their-selves?

The reason why I am asking this is because my solicitor had changed our genuinely heartfelt letters into two fairly different letters which are obviously written by someone from a legal background.

Surely the idea should be the honesty and genuineness reflected through the words of the closed ones and not dictated/written by a solicitor.

Or am I still being too naive to think that is the case?

[julian1972]

It should normally be written by them, though the solicitor can provide guidance such as what the letters should contain.

The solicitor can also advice that any info that would appear contradictory should be removed. Having said that, four years ago I've had to submit a written statement with an application. I wrote a one page statement but my solicitor expanded on the points I had made in the written statement and produced a four page statement. It essentially contained everything I said in my statement but elaborated on the points further.