General Fee information

Personal Injury/Medical negligence

Directors: £278.00

Solicitors: £217.00

Fellows of Inst. Of Legal Executives: £175.00

Trainee Solicitors: £146.00

Family Law /Divorce/Probate

Directors: £250.00

Solicitors: £192.00

Fellows of Inst. Of Legal Executives: £161.00

Trainee Solicitors: £146.00

Elaine Garnett: Specialist Property Lawyer

Residential Conveyancing fees sale or purchase

Registered freehold

House price	Fee
Up to  £150,000	£750 + vat   + Land Registry search and registration fees
Up to  £250,000	£850 + vat   + Land Registry search and registration fees
Up to £500,000	£950 + vat    + Land registry  search and registration fees
Up to £750,000	£1,150 + vat + Land Registry search and registration fees
Up to £1,000,000	£1,250 +vat  + Land Registry search and registration fees

 

• Newbuild add £150+vat to above figures
• Registered leasehold add £100+vat to above figures
• Unregistered land add £100+vat to above figures
• Above £1,000,000 agreed % of price
• Purchase of freehold £850+vat + Land Registry search and registration fees

 

Nicala Walker: Solicitor and Director

Nicala deals with divorces on a standard fee basis of £800.00 plus VAT plus the court fee which is currently £593.00.

Financial Remedy and private children act proceedings are dealt with at an hourly rate of £250.00 plus VAT plus Court disbursements.

Separation agreements, co-habitation agreements and pre-nuptial agreements are also dealt with at an hourly rate as above.

Probate is dealt with on a standard fee basis. For non-complex estates the fee is £3,000.00 plus VAT however, for complex estates, these are dealt with by way of percentage of estate value.

With regards to Wills, non-complex Wills are £150.00 plus VAT for a single Will and £250.00 plus VAT for mutual or mirror Wills. For more complex Wills, the fee is £500.00 plus VAT.

Powers of Attorney are charged at £400.00 per power (there are two) Health and Welfare and Financial and each are billed at £400.00 plus VAT plus Office of The Public Guardian Registration Fee which is currently £82.00. If there is a necessity for a doctor/GP or Consultant’s capacity certificate, there is usually a fee for that service.

All Nicala’s Trust work is dealt with at her hourly rate of £250.00 plus VAT.

With regard to conveyancing, this is of course far more detailed and takes into account issues of price of property, whether the matter is a sale or purchase, whether the property is a Leasehold or Freehold property plus all disbursements such as stamp duty, searches, land registry fees and the likes. Specific estimates are given upon request for each case.

Paul Cain: Solicitor and Director

Paul deals with his personal injury cases on the basis of a conditional fee agreement (CFA) in conjunction with a “No Win No Fee agreement.” The no win no fee agreement operates on the basis that if we are not successful in recovering damages for a client we do not ask the client to pay our costs. If we do recover damages for a client the CFA provides a success fee that is deductible from the client’s damages and is calculated as a percentage of our base costs incurred in dealing with the case. The percentage figure that can be deducted cannot exceed 25% of the amount of damages recovered by the client and only from damages that relate to the injury sustained itself and any damages recovered for items such as loss of earnings and care and assistance that have accrued from the date of accident up to the date of settlement or trial. The CFA success fee is not recoverable from the defendant’s insurers.

Our base costs that are calculated on the hourly rate charged by Paul at £278 per hour and disbursements, which are fees we pay on the client’s behalf to progress a claim and include items such as medical expert fees and court fees, remain the liability of a client to pay to us. Our base costs and disbursements are recoverable from the defendant insurers at the conclusion of a case, although the insurers can challenge the amount of costs claimed. In cases where the court rules provide that only fixed costs are recoverable in a case from the defendant, the amount of those costs might not cover all our base costs. We do in the majority of cases recover our base costs and disbursements from the defendant insurers, so that no costs are payable by the client.

Paul advises all clients on issues related to any risks to costs liability that might arise during the course of a case and what steps can be taken to eliminate that risk by taking out after the event insurance.