The Costs

We charge per hour at a rate agreed in advance with you. Time includes advising, attending on you and others by telephone and in person, dealing with papers, correspondence, telephone calls, travelling and waiting time. We may even be able to agree a fixed fee with you.

Our Costs also reflect the complexity and urgency of the case the value of the transaction and priority the required by you.

Our charges will be measured having regard to:

• The skill, labour and responsibility involved in the case and any specialised knowledge given or applied by us.
• The complexity, difficulty, rarity or urgency of the questions raised
• The importance of the matter
• The time reasonably expended by us on the case
• The place where and circumstances in which the case is pursued

Unless we agree a fixed fee (when we will normally ask for payment in advance), we will invoice you for the work done at the end of each month and ask that you pay by return. We may ask you to make a payment on account before proceeding. Asking you to pay in this way helps us maintain our cash flow and keep our bank charges to a minimum. This in turn helps us to keep our charges as low as possible. This is very important to us and indeed all our clients; so much so, that it is our practice to cease work on a case if the invoice is not paid on time.

You are responsible for the payment of the proper and reasonable charges for work done on your behalf. Such charges may include Court fees, Counsel’s fees, Accountancy fees, fees for medical examinations and reports and any other experts fees (such as Child Psychologists) or charges reasonably paid for or contracted for by us as your agent in pursuance of the case.

• The first is to talk to us.
• The second option is that if it is not possible to agree a fee you can ask the County Registrar to look at the work and the file. If they do not agree with the fee, they will amend it.