Buying or selling a house can be one of the most important transactions you will ever be involved in.
Salima Manji is our head of department and brings with her a wealth of experience and expertise. Sal has been a Solicitor since 1998 and there is very little she has not seen when it comes to buying and selling residential property.
Our estate administration lawyers provide a comprehensive service which includes dealing with the Probate Registry, the estate debts and funeral expenses, selling estate assets, preparing the estate accounts and dealing with any inheritance tax which may be due.
Meg Wilton is our head of department and brings over 10 years of experience and expertise and has been working in private client practice in the local area since 2001. Meg and her team are here to help with any of your needs when it comes to wills, trusts and probate.
“Extremely helpful, pleasant Solicitor and staff and office smart and clean”
We help you through the maze of complex legal and financial issues including division of capital, maintenance, pensions and business interests. Where children are involved, we help manage decisions about their care and financial arrangements. We take time to understand your needs.
We specialise in not only helping you if something goes wrong but also in preventing problems arising in the first instance.
Our involvement in ground-breaking judgements means we are well-placed to advise on complex and unusual cases. Below are some of the cases our staff have dealt with:
The Court held that ff CPR r.38.6 had been intended to create a general discretion as to costs on discontinuance it would have said so. As drafted, the rule made it clear that the defendant started from the position of being entitled to his costs and it was for the claimant to justify the making of some other order. The judge began his analysis by considering whether the settlement of the action against L constituted a change of circumstances which entitled the court to consider how to exercise its discretion under r.38.6(1). If the judge intended to suggest by that that there should be some kind of threshold test based on a change of circumstances then he was wrong to do so. A material change of circumstances might amount to a sufficient justification or reason for departing from the normal rule. It would depend on what the circumstances were. But the correct approach was for the court to consider all the matters relied on as justifying the making of some alternative order for costs and then to decide whether they were sufficient to support such an order.
TRACY REYNOLDS v STONE ROWE BREWER (A Firm) [2008] EWHC 497 (QB)
The appellant firm of solicitors (S) appealed against a decision of a costs judge that it was bound by an estimate given to the respondent (R). R consulted S, who informed her that the estimated cost of taking the matter forward and through to trial would be in the region of £10,000 to £18,000 plus VAT.
