Free & Fixed Fee Legal Services and Legal Aid
Business matters
We are members of the Lawyers For Your Business
scheme which entitles a client becoming involved in
a new business, who informs us that the introduction
is through this scheme, to about half an hour
interview free of charge at which they can be given
general advice e.g. on entering a partnership or
buying a business. This very often leads to those
clients giving us instructions to act in the matter.
It is particularly helpful to those who have little
or no business experience.
Please
click here to go to the FREE BUSINESS ADVICE Page.
Family matters
Free Appointments are available on request for you to
discuss in general terms a Family (e.g. divorce)
problem. The object is to help you decide whether
the legal procedures available can help you and also
to enable you to become confident in us before
committing yourself. They are limited to about half
an hour.
Fixed Fee Interview
(currently £65.00 plus VAT)
This is usually appropriate to clients with business
or property problems or a (potential) dispute. The
interview is intended to help you to decide, without
incurring great expense, whether a case is worth
investigating further and to inform you, in general
terms, the sort of assistance we can give or what
you can do for yourself. Please ask for Mr Thurstan
Hoskin and refer specifically to this scheme.
Legal Aid
This firm has always worked with the Legal Aid
system. We were one of the first to obtain a Legal
Aid franchise for which we had to prove that we were
satisfying the then new Legal Aid Board Standards.
Clients receive the same quality of service whether
they are paying their costs themselves or are
assisted by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) -
formerly the Legal Aid Board with Legal Help or
Public Funding Certificates.
We have continued with the system and have a
contract for Family Law Work (e.g. Divorce,
Children) Financial Settlements and Domestic
Violence Injunction.
Contracted firms are periodically audited by the LSC
to check that they continue to adhere to the
standards required.
It is most likely to be useful in Family or matters
regarding Wills for single parents or the elderly,
provided the client is financially eligible. N/B
Legal Aid is not necessarily wholly free. In some
cases a contribution has to be paid by the client.
In other cases the LSC has to be reimbursed out of
assets gained or preserved for the client. Full
information will be provided on this when you obtain
Legal Aid.
Other Sources of Funding
Check
your various insurance policies, Union memberships and similar in case
there is some provision for free legal assistance.
Visit us or telephone 01209 213646 to speak with us now, or use
our contact form
to
make an enquiry via email. (If you do not
receive a response within one working day then we
would be grateful if you would telephone us.)
Our General
Business Policy on Standards of our Services.
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The
guides below which contain useful legal information are provided as free
downloadable PDF's by Thurstan Hoskin. Click on the "Get Acrobat Reader"
button to download and install Acrobat if you do not already have it
installed.
Notes
for Clients Granting a Commercial Lease.pdf
