LEGAL AREA        COSTS GUIDANCE

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An A rated solicitor with over 8 years’ experience hourly rate is £338.40 inclusive of VAT (£282 plus

£56.40 VAT 20%)

Please note we do not provide any Legal Aid services or advice as we do not hold the franchise to offer public
funding work or services.

1 st  Consultation

Legal Consultation (Free 30-minute Consultation)

This excludes perusal of documents, reports or court bundle; after having sight of the documents
enclosed within, a fee will be proposed to include reading time [to go through the paperwork/bundle and a
30-minutes consultation] before the consultation. There will be no additional fee for perusal of paperwork
unless the bundle exceeds 10 pages.

We recommend having a 30 minutes consultation (face to face or Zoom) to see how we can assist in the first
instance as well as provide you the advice you will require to move matters forward or what your options are;
there is no obligation to instruct thereafter – this is purely a 30 minutes consultation to impart advice and
information. This will also help us understand and assess the situation or backdrop of your matter to formulate
our advice.

We also propose a brief chronology of dates and key events to date i.e. when parties met or separated and so

forth is provide before the consultation, so we do not waste time setting out the preliminaries. If there are any
correspondence, reports or court papers, please forward them but rest assured this will be treated with the
strictest confidentiality and will be discarded should you not proceed to instruct after the consultation.

Children Matters
for a Child Arrangements Order (CAO) or Inter-Country Adoption

Children Act proceedings and Inter-Country Adoption matters are dealt with on an hourly rate. In some cases,
we might be able to offer you a fixed fee if it is possible. This can be discussed after the initial consultation.

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Court route – if parties cannot agree
Court application fee : £313
Our hourly rate of £282 + VAT applies

There is no guarantee what outcome you will get or whether matters will conclude within 1 or after 2 hearings. 
Sometimes there may even be more hearings before matters can conclude if the other party makes serious
allegations or raises grave safeguarding concerns leading to the court directing a Fact-Finding Hearing (FFH).

Fee for FFH

Due to any safeguarding concerns or allegations which have been raised, there will be cross examination with oral
evidence given by the parties and witnesses if there are any, and this hearing is usually listed for 2 to 3 days or more,
if matters are very complex.

Extra costs will incur for prepping or attending to this additional part of these proceedings – it can cost between

£4,000 to £8,000 + VAT more if a FFH is directed within your CA application for a CAO. Please note that this does
not include any fee for the barrister or our attendance at court for the hearing.

Agreement By Consent (non-court route) @£3000.00 + vat  (fixed fee)

If a mutual consensus is achievable, a consent order where both parties can agree for matters to proceed without
attending court to avoid stressful, costly and less contentious proceedings can be drafted and filed at a fixed fee to
avoid attending court. This can only happen if both parties agree to all the terms on how they want living and contact arrangements
to take place moving forward.

An application with the requisite court fee will still have to be made to the court to consider your CAO whether you
adopt the court route or non-court route.

Court fee for Children Act Order application £263 (no VAT)
Consent order fee £60 (no VAT)
Court fee for C2 (application within proceedings) £190 (no VAT)

Injunctions / Domestic Abuse

Family Law Act [FLA] matters are usually dealt with on an hourly rate.
Injunctions (Non-molestation or Occupation Orders; FLA)
With/on notice applications or without notice applications

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Court application fee : not applicable
Our hourly rate of £282 + VAT applies

This fee includes advising and liaising with you and all third parties, communicating, considering reports/
correspondences and corresponding via email, letters or telephone and drafting statements.

Hearings – up to 3 to include the application [for an injunction] hearing with costs between £3,000 – £5,000 + VAT.

This is not inclusive of any disbursements or extra applications such as process server or counsel’s fees.

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Instructing counsel can cost around £1250 – £2500 + VAT for the first / return hearing – if counsel is instructed to
attend court with you.

If matters cannot conclude and remains contested with a plethora of allegations or safeguarding concerns,
the court may list a Fact-Finding Hearing (FFH) to determine these issues.

Fee for FFH

Due to serious safeguarding concerns or allegations which have been raised, there will be cross examination with
oral evidence given by the parties and witnesses [if there are any], and this hearing is usually listed for 2 to 3 days
or more, if matters are very complex.

Extra costs will incur for prepping or attending to this additional part of these proceedings – depending on the
allegation (nature and amount), it can cost between £5,000 to £10,000 + VAT or more if a FFH is directed to
determine these allegations.

Please note that this does not include any fee for the barrister or our attendance at court for the hearing.
The court’s decision is not based on beyond reasonable doubt unlike a Criminal court but on the balance of
probabilities that the alleged incident[s] did occur if found on the evidence that is provided.

If your matter is billed on an hourly basis, we will charge accordingly – based on how much time we spend on your
file; 1 hour of work will equal to £282.00 + VAT; please note that standard emails, letters, texts and telephone calls
in/out are charged as 1 unit which equals to 6 minutes of our time and therefore, £25.00  + VAT each.

Divorce  and Separation

We propose to carry out straightforward instructions on a fixed fee basis @ £1,000 + VAT excluding the court fee
of £613.

Court fee for divorce application £613 (no VAT)

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If matters become complicated in the process i.e. emergency applications must be made within the divorce
application itself or if the other party issues a cross application, we will discuss and propose any additional fees
deemed appropriate should extra costs or unexpected time are to be incurred on the matter. Divorce cases are
usually dealt with on an hourly rate. In some cases, we might be able to offer you a fixed fee from making the
application until completion or receipt of the final order. This can be discussed after the initial consultation.

Matrimonial Finances

Financial Remedy Settlement  Matrimonial Finances

All financial remedy settlement instructions are undertaken on an hourly rate

Court fee for application £313 (no VAT)
Consent order fee £60 (no VAT)

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Financial Remedy – Contested Court Proceedings

Our hourly rate at £282 + VAT applies and work will be billable on the amount of work and time taken to carry out
your instructions. Please note that there may be other disbursement costs such as fees for counsel’s representation.

Please note that there may be other disbursement costs such as fees for counsel’s representation.

The costs of these (3) proceedings can be in the region of £2,500 – £6,500 + VAT if it goes to three hearings. This fee can increase
should the matter be more complex. A general court application (fee of £313) will have to be made first.
This fee is extended to imparting advice throughout, all correspondence (via email/letters/texts or telephone),
liaising with yourself and all third parties in this matter, perusal and drafting statements, court applications,
preparing a court bundle and drafting a brief to counsel.

Please note that this does not include any fees for the court, our attendance at court for the hearing, process server
if one is needed, or counsel.

Unlike divorce proceedings, we are unable to propose a fixed fee for a financial remedy settlement as we simply do
not know how or whether matters will settle quickly or not – it all depends on the parties. On matrimonial finances,
the rate will always be hourly because it is difficult to ascertain whether matters will settle swiftly or if it will be
protracted/entrenched.

If your matter is billed on an hourly basis, we will charge accordingly – based on how much time we spend on your
file, i.e. 1 hour of work will equal to £282.00 + vat; please note that standard emails, letters, texts and telephone calls
in/out are charged as 1 unit which equals to 6 minutes of our time and therefore, £25 + vat each (at a minimum).

Should an agreement cannot be reached despite best efforts, the court will be invited to make a decision on your
matrimonial finances.

Financial Remedy – by Consent for a financial remedy settlement

Our fee for drafting a straightforward consent order is £2,500 + vat; if the issues are complex, a separate fee will
have to be discussed and agreed.
The court fee is £60 when the consent order is filed after parties have approved and signed the order.
A separate and general court application (fee of £313) will have to be made first.