Our pricing guide is there to show the services we provide and the prices you can expect to pay. All prices on this page are estimates and depending upon the circumstances of your matter the price may vary. The fee earner dealing with your matter will confirm costs with you.
There are a number of ways in which we charge. We offer flexibility and reasonableness with our fees and display our charging rates below.
HOURLY CHARGE BASIS
This is the most traditional method by which we charge as solicitors. Our rates are based upon the location of our head office in North London. Our fees range from £247-301 an hour exclusive of VAT for Partners, Senior Solicitors and Experienced Consultants to £138-197 per hour for our junior solicitors, caseworkers and paralegals. The work of our junior staff is supervised by more experienced solicitors to ensure that standards are maintained and work is carried out correctly to the client’s expectations.
At the inception of your matter, we will send you a client care letter setting out our terms and a cost estimate. In litigation matters, there may be some flexibility when it comes to costs, depending on the seniority of the fee earner engaged with the case and the level of experience of counsel who we instruct to advise and represent you in Court or Tribunal.
2024 CHAGE RATES
PARTNERS AND SENIOR SOLICITORS: £247 – £301 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
CONSULTANT SOLICITORS: £197 – £301 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
CONSULTANT BARRISTERS: £197 – £301 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
ASSOCIATE SOLICITORS: £197 – £247 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
TRAINEE SOLICITORS: £138 – £197 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
PARALEGALS AND JUNIOR CASEWORKERS: £139 – £197 EX OF VAT
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND WORK EXPERIENCE: £100 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
NON-LEGAL CONSULTANTS: £150 – £300 PER HOUR EX OF VAT
LEGAL EXPENSE INSURANCE
If you have a policy and we can secure cover, then insurers will cover the legal costs – subject to the terms of the policy. We will need to consider the same prior to confirming commencing work for you.
You will be responsible on a time basis for any pre-insurance work prior to cover being granted. Securing the grant of cover can be difficult and it is usually necessary to support an application for cover with counsel’s opinion containing at least a 51% prospect of success.
This type of legal expenses insurance cover is frequently contained in business insurance and home insurance policies.
There is also a statutory right to choose your solicitors once proceedings have been issued.
Alternatively, please come to us with your policy and we will make the application cover with you. Unless you have a very strong claim, we do not advise leaving the claim and moving from panel solicitors. We are adverse to taking on such claims due to duplication of work, which often takes place and the amount of our fees we would have to agree to send to your previous solicitors.
FIXED FEES
In appropriate cases (such as some property and conveyancing transactions and wills) we may agree to quote a fixed fee for an item of work. All fixed fees must be agreed in writing. If you would like a fixed fee, please ask the fee earner dealing with your matter.
NO WIN NO FEE
Most cases are not appropriate for a No Win No Fee and are dealt with on a privately paying basis.
All cases will need an initial consultation to consider the merits of the case and that meeting is paid for on a private basis.
Where there is a reasonably strong claim of success, with counsels’ advice of at least 60% chance of success we may be able to offer a No Win No Fee or a partial No Win No Fee. In all cases, counsel needs to accept to be engaged on a No Win No Fee basis.
It is not uncommon for us to send the papers to counsel to see if they are willing to take the case on this basis. Some counsels et the papers for free while others do charge for this.
We will charge our fees on a time basis to secure counsel on a No Win No Fee basis.
You will be required to pay all disbursements up front although if you are successful, they may be recovered.
LEGAL AID
We do not currently possess a legal aid franchise and cannot help you directly under the legal aid scheme. However, we do have associate law firms we work closely with whom we would direct you to following consultation with us.
CONTACTING OUR FIRM
We do not charge for initial telephone calls which typically are 5 – 10 minutes.
We can arrange, if you wish, an initial fixed fee meting which will range from £150 to £300 plus VAT depending on the length of the meeting agreed and the seniority of the fee earner and the location of the meeting.
We are a very approachable and flexible firm. We are contactable by email, mobile, WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype and many other global platforms. We offer flexibility on the days and times we can be contacted and can contact you.