Our fees

Debt Collection

  • Stage 1 – Tak­ing ini­tial instruc­tions and com­plet­ing the let­ter of claim – £500 plus VAT
  • Stage 2 – Action­ing the debtor’s response.
    1. If the debtor does not engage at all.
    2. If the debtor accepts the exis­tence of the debt but engages to nego­ti­ate pay­ment terms 
      • Our fees: £125 plus VAT.
      • There will be an addi­tion­al £125 plus VAT for any fur­ther cor­re­spon­dence regard­ing the debtor’s pro­pos­als for settlement.
    3. If the debtor accepts the exis­tence of the debt and wish­es to pay immediately. 
      • Our fee for this will be £75 plus VAT.
    4. If mat­ters aren’t resolved by this stage then fur­ther action will be required as set out below.
  • Stage 3 – Draft­ing plead­ings and issu­ing Court proceedings 
      • Our fees are deter­mined by the val­ue of the claim and you will be respon­si­ble for pay­ing the court fee which is set on a slid­ing scale in line with the val­ue of the claim.
Val­ue of debt and interest Our Fees Court Fees Set recov­er­able costs from the debtor
Up tp £300 £500.00+ VAT £35.00 £50.00
£300.01-£500 £500.00+ VAT £50.00 £50.00
£500.01-£1,000 £500.00+ VAT £70.00 £70.00
£1,000.01-£1,500.00 £500.00+ VAT £80.00 £80.00
£1,500.01-£3,000.00 £500.00+ VAT  £115.00 £80.00
£3,000.01-£5,000.00 £500.00+ VAT £205.00 £80.00
£5,000.01-£10,000.00 £500.00+ VAT £455.00 £100.00
£10,000.00-£100,000.00 £850.00+ VAT 5% of the val­ue of the claim £100.00
  • Stage 4 – Request­ing Coun­ty Court Judgment
    1. Once pro­ceed­ings have been issued and in the event the debtor files an Acknowl­edge­ment of Service.
      • Please see the below table for our costs.
    2. In the event the debtor files a Defence 
      • This work will be con­duct­ed at the hourly rate of the fee-earn­er with con­duct of your mat­ter which will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed to you in advance.
    3. If the debtor files an Admis­sion or Part Admission 
      • Please see below which also takes into account the recov­er­able legal costs which can be added to the debt owed to you.
Debt + interest Our fee Recov­er­able legal costs
Up to £5,000 1.     £35.00 plus VAT on seek­ing judg­ment fol­low­ing the defen­dant fail­ing to acknowl­edge service £22.00
2.     £40.00 plus VAT on seek­ing judg­ment fol­low­ing the defen­dant fail­ing to file a defence £25.00
Over £5,000 1.     £45.00 plus VAT on seek­ing judg­ment fol­low­ing the defen­dant fail­ing to acknowl­edge service £30.00
2.     £50.00 plus VAT on seek­ing judg­ment fol­low­ing the debtor fail­ing to file a defence £35.00

INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS

  • Statu­to­ry demand

Our cost for prepar­ing a statu­to­ry demand will be as follows:

Val­ue of debt Our fees
£750-£49,999.99 £1,500 plus VAT
£50,000.01-£100,000 £2,000.00 plus VAT

The statu­to­ry demand must be brought to the debtor’s atten­tion and you are oblig­ed to use all rea­son­able endeav­ours to do so. This includes (where pos­si­ble) serv­ing it on them per­son­al­ly. As a result, rec­om­mend that the statu­to­ry demand is served using a process serv­er at a cost of approx­i­mate­ly £100–150+VAT. This esti­mate is based on ser­vice being effect­ed at the first time of ask­ing. The fee will be more if ser­vice is to be attempt­ed more than once.

  • Issu­ing a wind­ing up petition

Our fixed fee for draft­ing, fil­ing and serv­ing a wind­ing up peti­tion is as follows:

Val­ue of debt Our fees
£750-£49,999.99 £1,500 plus VAT
£50,000.01-£100,000 £2,000.00 plus VAT

Addi­tion­al­ly you would be required to pay the fol­low­ing costs and disbursements:

–  £280 – Court fee;

–  £1,600 – Offi­cial Receiver’s deposit.

–  £20.00 + VAT – Search Fees

–  £84.60 – Lon­don Gazette adver­tis­ing fee

–  £100 – £150 + VAT – Process Server’s fee

–  £300 – £600 + VAT – for counsel’s fees per hearing

 

  • Issu­ing and obtain­ing a bank­rupt­cy petition

Our fixed fees for draft­ing, fil­ing and serv­ing a bank­rupt­cy peti­tion are as follows:

Val­ue of debt Our fees
£5000.00-£49,999.99 £1,500 plus VAT
£50,000.01-£100,000 £2,000.00 plus VAT

Addi­tion­al­ly you would be required to pay the fol­low­ing costs and disbursements:

–  £280 – Court fee;

–  £990 – Offi­cial Receiver’s fee

–  £20.00 + VAT – Search Fees

–  £100 – £150 + VAT – Process Server’s fee

–  £300 – £600 + VAT – for counsel’s fees per hearing

Residential Conveyancing — Sale

  • Free­hold between £250k and £1m — between £1200 to £1750 plus vat.
  • Lease­hold between £250k and £1m:  between £1600 to £2100 plus vat.
  • Bank Trans­fer fee — £30 plus vat.

Please con­tact us for a quote for sales and pur­chas­es of prop­er­ties over £1m.

Residential Conveyancing — Purchase

  • Free­hold between £250k and £1m — between £1200 to £1750 plus vat.
  • Lease­hold between £250k and £1m:  between £1600 to £2100 plus vat.
  • Bank Trans­fer fee — £30 plus vat.
  • Reten­tion fee — £200 plus vat.
  • Search­es (VAT is added to the search costs):
    • Envi­ron­men­tal search – £94 approx.
    • Chan­cel check – £24 approx.
    • Chan­cel indem­ni­ty (if required) — £12 approx.
    • Local Author­i­ty search (direct with Local Author­i­ty) – £200 approx.
    • Drainage search – £61 approx.
    • Plan Search – £30.
    • Lawyer check­er to ver­i­fy the oth­er law firm’s bank account – £12.
    • Com­pa­ny Report (if the Buy­ing enti­ty is a com­pa­ny) — £15 approx.
  • If obtain­ing a mortgage:
    • Fees for act­ing for the mort­gage lender — min­i­mum of £250 plus vat.
    • If the mort­gage lender instructs anoth­er solic­i­tor and addi­tion­al fee will be charged start­ing at £250 plus vat.
  • Help to buy — £500 plus vat.

Please con­tact us for a quote for sales and pur­chas­es of prop­er­ties over £1m.

Residential Conveyancing — Remortgage

  • Free­hold up to £1m –£750 plus VAT.
  • Lease­hold up to £1m — £900 plus VAT
  • Equi­ty Release Schemes for those over 55 year of age — £950 plus VAT.
  • Bank Trans­fer fee — £30

Employee Employment Tribunal Claims

Ini­tial Advice

We offer employ­ee clients ini­tial writ­ten advice on a fixed fee basis:

  • £300 plus VAT – Wrong­ful dis­missal claim
  • £500 plus VAT – Unfair dis­missal claim

The above fees are on the pro­vi­so that Employ­ment Tri­bunal pro­ceed­ings have not been issued.

Fixed Costs

Oth­er than the “ini­tial advice” let­ter detailed above, we may under­take oth­er fixed fee work on an “ad hoc” basis. This is nor­mal­ly when an employ­ee decides to rep­re­sent him/herself in the Tri­bunal pro­ceed­ings but seek our assis­tance to:

  • Draft claim form and par­tic­u­lars of claim – Fixed cost of either £600 or £850 plus VAT – Lim­it­ed to 4 hours’ draft­ing (not includ­ing read­ing and pri­or instructions)
  • Pre­pare Sched­ule of Loss – Fixed cost of either £350 or £500 plus VAT
  • Pre­pare List of Doc­u­ments – Fixed cost of either £350 or £600 plus VAT – Lim­it­ed to 650 pages of documents
  • Draft a wit­ness state­ment – Fixed cost of either £850 or £1,350 plus VAT – Lim­it­ed to 6 hours work

Ranges

The below ranges are based upon the hourly rates of the solic­i­tors that are like­ly to be act­ing for new clients which range from £150 – £350 plus VAT per hour and the num­ber of hours it is like­ly to take to pre­pare for and com­plete key stages of the tri­bunal process, depend­ing on the complexity.

  • Wrong­ful Dismissal
    1. Sim­ple case: £3,000-£6,000 plus VAT and disbursements
    2. Com­plex case: £4,500-£8,500 plus VAT and disbursements
  • o   Unfair Dismissal
    1. Sim­ple case: £12,000 – £25,000 plus VAT and disbursement
    2. Medi­um case: £25,000 – £45,000 plus VAT and disbursements
    3. Com­plex case: £45,000 to £60,000 plus VAT and disbursements

Please note all fees indi­cat­ed above assume the claim will be heard in a local (rea­son­able trav­el dis­tance) venue and do not include work beyond final hear­ing in the Employ­ment Tribunal.

 

Dis­burse­ments

Dis­burse­ments are costs relat­ed to an employer’s mat­ter that are payable to third par­ties, such as Counsel’s fees.

Counsel’s fees will depend on the expe­ri­ence of the bar­ris­ter instruct­ed and amount of work they have to do.  A less expe­ri­enced bar­ris­ter may charge in the region of £1,000 to £1,500 per day where­as a more expe­ri­enced bar­ris­ter may charge £2,000 per day and above.

These fig­ures are exclu­sive of VAT.

Immigration

British Cit­i­zen­ship and Nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion — £2,400 – £6,000

Tier 1 Visa Appli­ca­tions (Exten­sion and ILR):

  • Entre­pre­neurs — £6,000 – £9,000 (depend­ing on complexity)
  • Excep­tion­al Talent/Promise — £3,600 – £6,000
  • Investors — £4,800 – £7,200

Tier 2 Visa Applications:

  • Intra-Com­pa­ny Transfer
      1. In-coun­try — £3,000 – £4,200
      2. Out­side UK — £2,400 – £3,600
  • o   Gen­er­al
    1. new hires – RLMT — £3,840 – £6,000
    2. change of employ­ment – RLMT — £3,840 – £6,000
    3. new hires – high earn­er — £3,000 – £3,600
      1. In-coun­try — £600+
      2. Out­side UK — Same as above

Tier 5 Visa Applications

  • Gov­ern­ment Autho­rised Exchange — £1,800 (intern/BUNAC/GTI)
  • Cre­ative — £2,400 – £3,000
  • Youth Mobil­i­ty Scheme — £1,800 – £2,400

Spon­sor Licences

  • Tier 2 or 5 spon­sor licence appli­ca­tions — £2,400 – £4,800
  • Tier 2 or 5 spon­sor licence renew­al — £1,200 – £4,800

 

Euro­pean Free Move­ment Applications

  • EEA nation­als — £1,020 – £1,800
  • EEA Fam­i­ly Per­mit — £1,020 – £1,800 (unmar­ried partner)
  • EEA Reg­is­tra­tion Cer­tifi­cate — £1,020 – £1,800
  • EEA Res­i­dence Card — £2,400 – £4,800
  • EEA Per­ma­nent Res­i­dence Card — £2,400 – £3,600 (self-employed)

 

Indef­i­nite Leave to Remain (ILR)

  • Tier 2 ILR
    1. £2,400 – £3,600 (employ­ment)
    2. £3,600 – £4,800 + (excess absences)
  • Set­tle­ment – ILR
    1. £3,600 (employ­ment)
    2. £4,800 (self-employed)
  • ILR — £3,600 – £4,800

UK ances­try — £2,400 – £3,600

Probate

We can ful­fil a Grant only ser­vice which is based on an hourly rate start­ing at £250.00 per hour plus VAT.

Full admin­is­tra­tion – Our charges are based on the Law Soci­ety for­mu­la, which pro­vides a val­ue ele­ment of 1% of liq­uid assets, 0.5% of prop­er­ty val­ue and, with an hourly rate start­ing at £250 plus VAT per hour. Where this firm has been appoint­ed as execu­tors the val­ue ele­ment applied is 1% of prop­er­ty val­ue and 2% of liq­uid assets, with an hourly rate start­ing at £250 plus VAT per hour.

Fees for this type of work usu­al­ly start from £5500.00 plus VAT.

Dis­burse­ments not includ­ed in the fee:

  • £5-£7 swear­ing of the Oath (per administrator/ executor).
  • Bank­rupt­cy only Land Charges depart­ment search­es (£2 per beneficiary).
  • Post in the Lon­don Gazette (£84.60) – pro­tects against unex­pect­ed claims from unknown creditors
  • Pro­bate appli­ca­tion fee of £155.00
  • Cer­tain­ty Will search (£114) to ensure no Will exists or no lat­er Will exists