INTRODUCTION
We are a firm
of Solicitors who specialise in undertaking agency advocacy hearings
in nineteen County Courts across the Greater Midlands area.
We specialise
in conducting Civil and Family Litigation hearings on an Agency
basis on behalf of other Firms of Solicitors. Below is an outline
of the categories of work we undertake and an overview of the service
we provide.
CIVIL
LITIGATION
The
following types of Civil Litigation hearings are regularly undertaken:
-
Mortgage
Repossession Hearings
-
Applications
to Suspend Warrants of Possession
-
Mortgage
Shortfall Claims
-
Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Hearings
-
Return
of Goods Hearings
-
Applications
for Charging Orders
-
Applications
for Garnishee and Attachment of Earnings Orders
-
Allocation/Listing
Hearings
-
Case
Management Conferences
- Small Claims Hearings
-
Appeals
before the Circuit Judge
-
Infant
Approval Hearings
Such hearings
are undertaken by Andrew Walters, Natalie Smith and Kelly Smith.
Fee
Structure:- Our fixed agency fee for most standard
hearings listed for ten minutes or less is £75.00 plus VAT,
inclusive of preparation, travel and waiting. More complex hearings
with a lengthier time estimate would be attract a higher fee which
we will be glad to negotiate with you. This may be a fixed fee or
based on an hourly rate dependant on the nature of the hearing.
Should you already have a fixed pricing structure for your hearings,
then we will be happy to undertake instructions accordingly.
FAMILY
AND CHILDREN ACT LITIGATION
The
following types of Family Litigation hearings are regularly undertaken:
-
Section
8 (Residence, Contact, Specific Issue and Prohibited Steps)
Directions Hearings
-
First
Directions Appointments in Ancillary Relief Hearings
-
Financial
Dispute Resolution hearings
-
Attendance
with Counsel on Final Ancillary Relief Hearings
-
General
Interlocutory Family and Divorce Hearings
-
Public
Law Children Act hearings
-
Public
and Private Law Family and Children Act matters in the Family
Proceedings Court.
County Court Public Law, Section 8 and Ancillary
Relief hearings are undertaken by Andrew Walters and Natalie Smith.
All FPC hearings are undertaken by Andrew Walters
and Natalie Smith.
Fee Structure:-
We undertake Family hearings at Public Funding rates for
both the County and the Family Proceedings Courts should your client
have the benefit of a Public Funding Certificate.
If you are privately retained by your client then
our attendances would be charged on an hourly rate as follows:
OUR SERVICE
We aim to
provide a complete service to you from the receipt of your instructions
to reporting back with the result of the hearing. We will provide
you with the name and mobile telephone number of the advocate attending
your hearing so as to ensure that you can remain in constant contact
with them should the need arise.
It is our
practice to telephone you with the result of the hearing immediately
after its conclusion. We will e-mail or fax a full report to you
before close of business on the day of the hearing and the hard
copy report together with your papers will be dispatched via document
exchange the following day.
We, wherever
possible, will be happy to accept emergency instructions at short
notice.
We prefer
to provide a quality service in a smaller area rather than aim to
provide nationwide coverage. This means that we can undertake your
hearings personally rather than sub-contracting large volumes of
work to other advocates.
We pride
ourselves on being able to provide you with a personal, friendly
yet professional service. We have an excellent working relationship
with all of our clients which we have maintained over a considerable
number of years. We aim to provide a service which you will
be happy to continue to use on a regular basis.
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