Make A Free Enquiry We are here to help you. Call us for advice on Solicitors Case Costs. Case Settles Before Court The responsibility for costs should also be agreed at this point and the specific monetary amount included in the final agreement.
Case Goes To Court Once it is known who has won the case, the Judge will assess how much of the costs will need to be paid and by whom. Cost Order Not Requested It has been known for solicitors or barristers to forget to ask for a cost order to be made and this can have serious repercussions for a client, as they will have to bear the cost of the case themselves. For Solicitors' costs advice call us on You may find yourself in a situation when it becomes necessary to ask a solicitor to give you advice on your legal position and the most appropriate course of action.
It may be that you wish to go one step further and ask that solicitor to act on your behalf in the pursuit or defence of a legal claim. Solicitors generally calculate their charge by applying their hourly rate to the amount of time they have spent advising you and acting on your behalf.
To complicate matters, however, it may be uncertain as to whether a case will proceed all the way to a final determination such as a Court Trial or a Land Registry Adjudication — it may be that the case is capable of settlement before then.
Some cases are settled without the need to commence formal proceedings and so at a very early stage. In light of the uncertainty as to how long a solicitor will ultimately spend advising you and acting on your behalf, it is worth considering the legal cost benefits of instructing a law firm with specialist expertise.
Click here for information regarding those benefits. For example, a solicitor practicing in a top-tier law firm in the City of London will have a higher hourly rate than a solicitor having the same experience and same level of specialist expertise practicing in a second-tier law firm in Manchester.
The table below shows the guideline rates for grade A and grade B solicitors:. An estimate is a best guess, it is not the same thing as a fixed quote. Matters can always take an unexpected turn which means they take longer and cost more.
However, if the estimate looks like being significantly wrong then your solicitor should inform you of this as soon as they can. In some cases, or for some pieces of work, your solicitor may be able to offer you a fixed fee you know in advance what it will cost and this will not change or, a capped fee where you will not pay more than a given maximum price but may pay less if the work takes less time.
It may not always be possible to predict the amount of time that will be spent on your matter, or any particular stage of it, so such arrangements may not always be agreed. However, it is always worth asking if a fixed fee arrangement is available. The more efficiently your solicitor uses their time, the less time they spend on your matter, the less you will be charged.
Note that we have to review all correspondence and documentation which we receive from you. Before we can give you meaningful advice we will need to understand all the facts of your case. Clients are sometimes surprised that they need to pay for this preparatory work but, this is vital to being able to provide quality assistance to clients and will be chargeable. For example:. For further information regarding the complaints process, please see making a complaint against a solicitor.
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Does the Law Society regulate fees? Court cases. Legal aid. No win no fee cases. Querying the fee. Independent scrutiny of legal fees. Challenging the amount you have been charged. Complaints about the solicitor's service.
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