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We
are a friendly and efficient
firm based in Warwick and with a branch office in Balsall Common.
We are regulated by the Solicitors
Regulation Authority.
Although we
are based in Warwick and Balsall
Common, we are happy to make home visits if necessary. We will travel
within any reasonable distance dependant on your requirements. We cover
all of the followings areas: Warwick, Balsall Common, Stratford upon
Avon, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Coventry, Meriden, Wellesbourne, and
the outlying villages. If you need a solicitor or conveyancer in these
areas, do please contact us.
We are
closed until 9am on the 3rd January 2012 (10am on the 4th at Balsall
Common). We are having a new phone system installed during this
time so please email us using the email addresses on the "Contact us"
page of this website. We will respond to emails when we return.
We offer
advice and
assistance with a number of different issues including:-
 Residential
Conveyancing
Commercial
and Company Matters
Wills, Living
Wills and Lasting Powers
of Attorney
Probate
Public
Guardianship applications
Landlord
and tenant problems
Litigation
and debt recovery
Medical
and other professional
negligence
Road
Traffic offences - speeding tickets, drink
driving etc
Agency
services for other firms of solicitors
If
you need advice about something that isn't on this list, we are able to
refer you to an expert as part of the Connect2Law scheme.
Residential
Property
Moving
house is supposed to be one of
the
most stressful things that we deal with in life, but we hope that we
can offer you a service which makes the process
a painless one.
Your geographical location is no problem for us and we can act for you
wherever you are in the world - as long as the property itself is in
England or Wales.
We deal with a variety of residential property related issues:
Buying
and selling residential property - please
click on the links to
the left for more
information
Re-mortgaging
Transferring
property into joint or sole names
(commonly called 'Transfers of Equity')
Repossession
advice
Giving
property away
We can also
help with a wide variety of
issues that you may face while you live in or rent out residential
property:
Boundary
disputes
Consumer
disputes with shops or service providers
Landlord
and Tenant issues - tenancy agreements,
enforcement, eviction etc (there are
more details below)
Professional
negligence - issues with
contractors etc
Commercial
and Company
Matters
Commercial
Property -
granting and taking Leases on all types of commercial property
Buying,
merging and selling businesses
Negotiating
and drawing up commercial contracts
Contract
disputes
Accidents
at work
Wills,
Living Wills,
Powers of Attorney, Public Guardianship applications and Probate
There are
serious consequences to
dying
without making a will, and we would encourage everyone to take steps to
ensure that their assets are dealt with as they would like, without
giving the tax man too big a share.
We'd be pleased to help you with all the steps involved with managing
your assets and ensuring that your wishes are carried out:
Inheritance
Tax planning
Wills
- please click the link on the left for
more information about making a will
Registering
the existence of your will (but not
the contents) on the Certainty
Database.
Living
Wills
Lasting
Powers of Attorney
Applications
to the Public
Guardianship Office if you need
to deal with someone
else's affairs
Obtaining
Grants of Probate and administering
estates
You can let
us know about your will by using
our Fast Wills form.
We'll
take the details you give us and send you a draft will to look at.
Landlord and
Tenant
problems
If
you are a property
manager, estate letting agent
or private
landlord
we can offer you
expert, sound and uncomplicated advice about all legal aspects of
renting out a
property. This is to ensure your interests are protected as well as
offering
the best service to your tenants.
We
can help you avoid the common mistakes that landlords
make when trying to resolve problems with tenants. We can help you deal
with these issues fairly, efficiently and through the correct legal
channels so that renting
is a successful and stress free venture.
Some of
the issues that we can help you with are:
Tenancy
Agreements - The rights and
obligations of landlords and tenants in law.
The
Tenancy Deposit Scheme - All deposits
obtained by landlords after 6th
April 2007
must
be
safeguarded by
this scheme. We advise on the purpose of the scheme, how
it affects landlords
and the legal implications of not entering into one.
Problem
tenants - breaches of tenancy agreements e.g unpaid rent or anti-social
behaviour.
Landlords need to be aware of the most
appropriate and quickest course of
action
to deal with these problems.
How to
bring a fixed term tenancy to an end.
How to
evict a tenant during a fixed term tenancy or after it has expired -
Landlords
often make the mistake of changing
the locks at the property without going through the
correct channels at court
and this can end up being very costly. You have to apply to
court for a
possession order to have a tenant lawfully evicted. We can advise and
assist you
throughout the whole court process. We
can prepare the relevant statutory notices
and
court documents, and guide you
step by step through the court procedure to ensure
the eviction is carried out
fairly, lawfully and without any unnecessary cost to you.
If you are a housing
association, registered
social landlord or local authority,
we can
offer advice about all legal aspects of
housing
management to help you provide the best service to your tenants as well
as running
an efficient business. In
particular we
can
advise you
on:
Security
of tenure - This determines what
rights tenants have. You have a say as to how
much security you want to give a
tenant when they first enter into a tenancy agreement
with you. This will
determine the processes you have to go through if you wish to have
them
evicted. We can advise on a range of tenancy types, including starter
tenancies,
introductory
tenancies, assured tenancies and secure tenancies.
Possession
-
We can help you at every stage of the
possession process from the
pre-action
protocol stage
through to issuing
proceedings at court and enforcement of a
possession order. We can
prepare all
the necessary court documents and ensure that
you have the best representation
at court.
Alternatives
to possession - There are other ways of dealing with breaches by a
tenant other than
possession. We can
advise you on the options available to you such
as Anti-Social
Behaviour
Injunctions and Demoted Tenancies.
Civil
Litigation and private criminal matters
We are
pleased to offer advice and
assistance with a wide range of litigation matters:
Litigation
for companies
Debt
recovery
Litigation
for private individuals
Personal
injury
Compromise
Agreements
Professional
and medical negligence
Consumer
disputes with shops or service providers
We can also act for you in privately funded criminal matters, the most
common of which involve road traffic offences such as speeding or drink
driving. For more information, click Drink
Driving Information
The
materials contained in this website
are provided for general information purposes and do not constitute
legal or other professional advice. We accept no responsibility for
loss which may arise from reliance on information contained in this
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