Ok, look at the dates, January 2010 and its now April 2010 and it is only now the solicitor is aware a form has to be completed and signed by all 4!! Hello am I missing something!
Yes, you don't seem to have a grasp that these things take time and the actual process of registration is outside the control of your solicitor; it is dependant upon Government agencies, which aren't known for their speed. Also you don't go into specifics about what has taken place in that time and what steps your solicitor has taken. I can assure you that 3 months isn't a particularly long time to carry out a transmission.
Anyway, what is the huge hurry? Afterall, it is just a technicality, as the property does not have to be vested in your names to sell the property because the legal personal representatives would have the power of sale without transferring the property into the 4 names.
Its the insurance companies who are refusing to insure the house!!
That isn't your solicitors fault; and, to be honest, doesn't really make any sense, because a legal personal representative i.e. an executor has the statutory power to insure the property. What reasons are the insurance company providing regarding their apparent refusal to insure the property?
Do you still think they dont have a gripe?
Probably not, no, but in the absence of more meaningful information one can't be absolutely categoric in that regard.
ps the same solicitors were handed back the keys in October 2009 and told the deceased was going back to UK to die. And they did.... nothing.
I think this shows your misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of what role the solicitor plays in these circumstances. A solicitor isn't some sort of caretaker so really they were probably just obliging you with even receiving the keys, the fact of the matter, and without wanted to be too insensitive, is that such information regarding the deceased's intentions is of absolutely no relevance or significance to the solicitor whatsoever. Such information does not of itself form instructions upon which a solicitor can act.
I know that it can sometimes come as a shock to impatient beneficiciaries, who would often prefer to inherit their gifts pre-death, but alas they must wait until death as a Will speaks only from death and not a moment before. Then there is the thorny issue of complying with legal formalities.. God forbid a solicitor would take these seriously and delay the impatient beneficiaries.