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Many of our fixed fees are contained within the relevant section on our website.
We are obliged to specifically publish prices relating to areas of work where we do not necessarily offer fixed fees.
If you would like an accurate quote please contact us by calling 0845 543 5700 or by emailing info@fjg.co.uk
Costs for the sale of a freehold residential property range from £1100 – £1820 (not including VAT).
Costs for the sale of a leasehold residential property range from £1600 – £2320 (not including VAT).
On the sale of a property, likely disbursements are:
Document fee is £4 plus VAT.
Costs for the Purchase of a freehold residential property range from £1270- £2500 (not including VAT).
Costs for the purchase of a leasehold residential property range from £1770 – £3000 (not including VAT).
Likely disbursements on a purchase:
Pre completion searches should be £16 plus VAT based on two parties.
Stamp Duty – varies – link
Land Registry fees – varies – link
Searches vary, as dependant on Local Authority, in the region of £250 – 300.00 plus VAT
(£300 / £360)
Bank transfer fee £35 plus VAT (£42)
Remortgage Fees –
£550 plus VAT (£660) for a freehold property.
£600 plus VAT (£900) for a leasehold property.
Disbursements – Land Registry fee
Search indemnity, or searches dependant on lender requirements
Document fee, £3.75 (£4.50) per item from Land Registry, normally 3 items but maybe moredependent on title.
Transfer of Equity (no mortgage) – £560 plus VAT
Disbursements – Land Registry fee
Search Indemnity or searches dependant on transaction
Stamp Duty dependant on transaction
Document fee, £3.75 (£4.50) per item from Land Registry, normally 3 items but maybe more dependent on title.
Pre completion searches £14.75 plus VAT (£17.70) this is based on 2 parties, maybe more dependent on title
We offer fixed fees for all services which can be found under the Wills, Life planning and Probate
services of our website.
For full administration services our charges range between £2,500 plus VAT (£3,000) to £30,000 plus VAT (£36,000)
Likely disbursements are:
Many clients prefer to have a fixed fee for this service which we are happy to discuss whether this is possible with you.
Immigration applications:
In our immigration department we act for both individuals and businesses. In both cases we offer an initial fixed fee appointment to take instructions and information on the particular circumstances of the individual or business. We can then tailor the advice and costs based on those particular circumstances and the application that will be made. The costs of the fixed fee appointment can start from £350 (including VAT and a letter of advice) to help you understand your position. Or alternatively, £200 – £300 (including VAT) for only a letter of advice depending on the complexity of a case.
In fact any fees quoted below are dependant on an on an applicant’s immigration background and complexity of the case. All fees quoted exclude disbursements: Disbursements are payments to third party agencies and include the Home Office
application fees/ Court fees/ translation costs.
The Home Office fees vary for each application type, a link to the Home Office fees can be found here but change annually:
Should an interpreter be required or documents need to be translated, these are charged independently and hourly and range from £50 to £100 per hour.
Please note the above information are a general guide to costs and more tailored information can be provided during the initial consulation.
Employment law applies to every business in the UK and is integral to workplace management and to every working individual. Managing the requirements of employment law can be daunting for employers and employees alike and failing to comply with employment legislation
can have serious repercussions for both parties.
At FJG we have a team of specialist employment lawyers who manage the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment cases.
Our employment team works closely with our corporate team to ensure that the right people are in place to strategise with you.
Our employment team forms part of our dispute resolution department, which equips it to provide the best advice and representation on the full breadth of contentious employment matters. That includes Employment Tribunal matters, professional disciplinary issues before regulators and internal investigations involving both statutorily and contractually appointed authorities.
We are experts in handling contentious employment cases. Areas that our employment lawyers typically advise employees on include:
We are high level tacticians with years of experience in resolving employment disputes. Many of the employment disputes we advise on settle without recourse to formal litigation steps and we believe that this is a testament to our team’s tactical approach to handling negotiations in contentious cases.
We are frequently engaged nonetheless with managing litigation in the Employment Tribunal, County Court and High Court on issues including discrimination, whistleblowing and enforcement of restrictive covenants.
We are risk managers, with a very good understanding of when to take risks and when to minimise them. We are adept at applying proportionate force at the best time to offer our clients the best chances of success and to keep costs – which are irrecoverable from a losing party in employment proceedings generally – proportionate to the matters in dispute.
We typically offer fixed fee appointments with our experienced solicitors to both employers and employees, to enable them to obtain initial advice on cases, so we can provide the earliest possible advice regarding how to resolve an employment case.
There are usually different ways to resolve an employment dispute, no matter how entrenched the parties may seem and we aim to set out all of the options available to clients at the earliest opportunity.
Whether we act for claimant individuals or respondent businesses our approach to charges is the same. We offer fixed fee appointments with our specialist solicitors who take initial instructions about the circumstances of a case to obtain a feel for the issues, give some initial advice and help tailor a strategy to approach the matter at hand.
The costs of a fixed fee appointment with one of our solicitors can range between £200 to £500 plus VAT (£240 / £600) depending on the seniority of the solicitor involved in the case. Our fixed fee interviews last up to one hour.
After an initial fixed fee interview we typically charge on a time recorded basis. Our charges in cases will be based on the amount of time spent on conduct of work and our Terms of Business.
The hourly rates of our fee earners are set out below:
Payment of Employment Tribunal fees was abolished in July 2017 to help provide better access to justice for litigants. This means that although you will not have to pay the government fees to commence or defend an employment claim, if one chooses to be represented in a case it is usual for them to meet their own legal costs.
We recognise that legal costs can sometimes be prohibitive to individuals and small businesses obtaining legal advice promptly, or at all.
Navigating an Employment Tribunal or Court matter can be a minefield. The process can also present hidden opportunities for litigants to obtain tactical advantages over opponents, which clients naturally wish to benefit from.
Having an employment specialist in the background who is familiar with Employment Tribunal rules in a case can often be advantageous if full representation cannot be afforded.
We offer services designed to help litigants who require ad hoc advice with preparation of statements of case (ET1’s and ET3’s , preparing witness statements, representation at Preliminary Hearings and with making various applications, without us going on the record as acting for that party. This is to enable our client’s to gain access to our employment services when they need them the most.
Some cases settle early and others require to go to trial. The spectrum of different contested employment matters is vast. As a guide though, in non-complex Unfair Dismissal cases an employee’s solicitor own-client costs to trial (if represented from the outset) could be in the range of between £5,000 and £30,000 plus VAT (£6000 / £36000) and disbursements.
Factors which may increase legal costs includes but is not limited to: the complexity of the legal issues involved, any prior handling of the dispute by managers or by other legal representatives, the volume of documentation involved in the case, the number of witnesses to be called, variations to client objectives or established evidence, any applications that may be advised in the lead up to trial and the other side’s attitude towards settlement.
The maximum amount that one can be awarded as compensation for Unfair Dismissal is presently the statutory cap of £105,707, or 52 weeks gross salary – whichever is the lower. This is in addition to the basic award which can be ordered by the Tribunal of up to a
maximum of £17,130. These figures are correct as at 2023.
A difficult opponent can considerably increase the incurrence of another parties’ costs. In discrimination cases costs can be higher, ranging in non- complex cases between £7,000 and £35,000 plus VAT and disbursements to trial.
In cases where sums of money are being sought by way of recovery up to the limit of £25,000 and where the County Court has jurisdiction to hear a matter in addition to the Employment Tribunal, costs can be recoverable from a losing opponent (see link to debt recovery page).
In some cases a barrister may be employed by us on your behalf to represent you at the hearing of an application or at trial.
We work with a number of highly regarded local barristers and other city based barristers (generally for higher value or more complex cases) to provide advocacy services on your behalf.
Barristers’ fees are part of a family of costs known as ‘disbursement costs’ because you incur them by requiring to pay fees to third parties. Barristers’ fees in debt collection matters typically range between £400 and £1200 plus VAT (£480 / (£1440) for making court applications (including a brief fee) and between £800 and £2,000 plus VAT (£960 / £2400) for conduct of up to a day’s trial. Thereafter one can usually expect to pay a further £1,000 plus VAT (£1200) a day on average for each further day that the Barrister is engaged at a trial.
Employment trials can be disposed of by the Tribunal in the space of a few hours to one day or in larger substantive mattes over weeks. If your matter is likely to fall outside of these general costs parameters we will inform you during the currency of your case. The nature and complexity of a matter will usually be known to us after a fixed fee meeting.
In applicable cases court fees may be payable at different stages during a contentious case. These costs are also known as disbursement costs.
A list of court fees, including enforcement cost are published by HM Courts & Tribunal Service on form EX50, which can be viewed via the following link.
There may be other disbursement costs incurred by our clients including travel expenses, which are chargeable by us at the rate of 45p per mile plus VAT (54p), the costs of tracing a debtor in the context of enforcement proceedings (which range between £50 plus VAT (£60) and £500 plus VAT (£600) depending on the nature of the searches conducted), obtaining credit reference reports (between £100 plus VAT (£120) and £750 plus VAT (900)) and process serving fees (which range between £100 plus VAT (£120)and £500 plus VAT (£600)).
In the event of enforcement action becoming necessary to engage a High Court Enforcement agent the applicable fee for transfer up of these proceedings from County Court to the High court is £66 and in the event that no recovery is possible the High Court
Enforcement Officer’s fee is typically £75 plus VAT (£90).
The above information is provided as a general guide to costs in employment matters and is not a costs guarantee. More information regarding likely costs will usually be provided to our clients at a fixed fee interview.
Recovering unpaid invoices can be time-consuming and frustrating for any individual or business.
FJG has an experienced team of lawyers which recovers debts of every size for both commercial and private clients. This means that at FJG we are able to offer knowledgeable and pragmatic advice so that our clients can make informed commercial decisions about taking debt recovery action knowing the practical implications of doing so.
We provide debt collection services of all types, ranging from preparing letters before action, through to bringing County or High Court legal proceedings and insolvency proceedings, by the service of winding up or bankruptcy petitions, through to judgement and enforcement.
Our debt collection services are partner led and are provided by both experienced solicitors and paralegals to ensure that you get the best service.
It may be impractical and disproportionate sometimes to chase debts below £10,000 in value – these are known as small claims.
We aim to advise you as early as possible about the associated costs involved with pursuing debts and the likelihood of your obtaining a successful outcome in a debt recovery action. We also always keep in mind the prospects of creditors successfully enforcing a judgement to ensure that the action taken justifies the expense of taking it.
We offer fixed fee appointments with our solicitors to enable creditors to obtain initial advice about debt cases so we can provide the earliest possible advice about how to recover money. There may be more than one way to successfully recover a debt and we aim to set out all of the options available.
Our debt recovery solicitors provide the following services:
Pre-action Services – our debt recovery lawyers draft standard, or bespoke Pre-Action letters before claim, in compliance with the CPR Pre Action Protocol (the ‘Protocol’). The purpose behind sending a letter before claim is to set out the grounds for a claim, and to put pressure on the debtor to pay the debt, prior to issuing formal proceedings.
Where a business (including sole traders and public bodies) are claiming payment of a debt from an individual (including a sole trader) the Protocol applies.
Failure to observe the Protocol can result in sanctions from the court. Business to Business debts are not covered by the Protocol.
In cases where the Protocol applies, court proceedings against a creditor should not commence until the later of:
This usually means that a claim should not be started by a creditor before the end of one month after the date on which a Letter of Claim has been sent, where the Protocol applies. In other cases a Letter of Claim in a straightforward case may request a response within 7 days of the date of it and default of response or a satisfactory reply could cause proceedings to be started soon thereafter. We can normally prepare a letter Before Claim for the equivalent in cost of between 1-2 hours’ work at the hourly rates shown below.
Tracing Debtors – we offer our own tracing services and we also sometimes work with external agencies to trace individuals and the service location of corporate entities to help you locate a debtor and judge whether they are worth suing. This is designed to improve your chances of bringing a successful debt action. Although the majority of the searches carried out to locate debtors are conducted within one week of our instruction, if conducted via desk based sources, the time it can take to trace a debtor is generally variable.
Issuing Money Claim Proceedings – If a letter before claim is unsuccessful then one option is to issue money claim proceedings against the debtor for recovery of a debt. In certain cases this can be done online. We will advise you of the implications of issuing a formal claim, including how much it could cost you at a fixed fee meeting.
Threatening and Issuing Bankruptcy Proceedings – where a debtor is an individual, then in certain circumstances, issuing bankruptcy proceedings can be an alternative strategy to recover an outstanding debt. Prior to issuing bankruptcy proceedings we generally advise our clients to issue a statutory demand, to put additional pressure on the debtor to pay the debt. If this is unsuccessful then provided that the debt is undisputed, and is over the prescribed amount, we can then issue bankruptcy proceedings. Bankruptcy proceedings can, at the earliest, be started 21 days after a statutory demand is issued in normal cases.
Threatening and Issuing Winding Up/ Insolvency Proceedings – where a debtor is a company, then in certain instances issuing a winding up petition can be an effective strategy to recover an outstanding debt. Certain criteria needs to be satisfied prior to issuing winding up proceedings including that the debt is above the prescribed amount, and that the debt is not disputed.
Enforcement – After obtaining judgement, and in the event that the debtor does not comply with the relevant order, then enforcement proceedings may be appropriate to enforce any court order made as a result of the debt proceedings.
Where we act for claimant individuals or businesses, we offer fixed fee appointments with our specialist solicitors who take initial instructions from creditors about their circumstances, give some initial advice to creditors about taking the intended recovery action and help tailor a strategy to pursue things. The costs of a fixed fee appointment with one of our solicitors can range between £250 to £400 plus VAT (£240 / £480) depending on the complexity of the matter. Our fixed fee interviews last up to one hour.
After an initial fixed fee interview we typically charge on a time-recorded basis. Our charges in a matter will be based on the amount of time spent on it and our Terms of Business.
The hourly rates of our fee earners are set out below:
Grade A fee earner (Partner or Senior solicitor or legal executive) with over 8 years’ experience, hourly rates: £278 plus VAT
Grade B fee earner (Solicitor or Legal Executive) with over 4 years’ experience, hourly rates £233 plus VAT
Grade C fee earner (Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience) hourly rates £190 plus VAT
Grade D fee earner (Trainee Solicitors, Paralegals and other fee earners) £134 plus VAT
Many claims in relation to which we provide assistance by drafting letters before action, issuing county court proceedings or taking insolvency steps on behalf of creditors, result in recovery of the amounts sought.
Some cases settle early and others require to go to trial.
In straightforward debt collection matters where the debt to be recovered is between £10,000 and £50,000 in value and we go on the court record as acting for a client, solicitor own-client costs up to trial can range between £1,500 and £20,000 plus VAT (£1800 / £24000) and disbursements. Factors which may increase costs include but are not limited to the volume of documentation involved in the case, the number of witnesses to be called, any applications that may be advised in the lead up to trial and the other side’s attitude towards paying the debt.
A difficult opponent can considerably increase a creditor’s liability for costs.
In other cases where the amounts being claimed are more than £50,000 in amount, solicitor own client costs can be higher, ranging in non complex debt claims between £5,000 and £35,000 plus VAT (£6000 / £42000) and disbursements.
On a winning case, save for where a claim is made to recover less than £10,000 in amount, a creditor will be capable of recovering in average cases between 65% and 75% of their legal costs from a losing opponent, if costs are awarded on the ‘standard basis’. The standard basis means cost that are reasonably and proportionately incurred.
In cases where the sum being sought by way of recovery is less than £10,000 in amount, cases of this type are typically allocated by the court to the ‘Small Claims track’. The implication of that is that costs are not normally recoverable from an opponent even on a winning case.
In some cases a barrister may be employed by us on your behalf to represent you at the hearing of an application or at trial. We work with a number of highly regarded local barristers and other city based barristers (generally for higher value or more complex cases) to provide advocacy services on your behalf.
Barristers’ fees are part of a family of costs known as ‘disbursement costs’ because you incur them by requiring to pay fees to third parties. Barristers’ fees in debt collection matters typically range between £300 and £850 plus VAT (£360 / £1020) for making court applications (including a brief fee) and between £800 and £2,000 plus VAT (£960 / £2400) for conduct of up to a day’s trial. Thereafter one can usually expect to pay a further £1,000 a day on average for each further day that the Barrister is engaged at a trial.
Debt collection trials are typically disposed of by the courts in the space of a few hours to one day. If your matter is likely to fall outside of these costs parameters we will inform you during the currency of your case.
Court fees are payable at different stages during a case. These costs are also known as disbursement
costs also.
A list of court fees, including enforcement cost are published by HM Courts & Tribunal Service on form EX50, which can be viewed via the following link.
There may be other disbursement costs incurred by a creditor during a case, including travel expenses, which are chargeable by us at the rate of 45p per mile plus VAT (54p), the costs of tracing a debtor (which range between £50 plus VAT(£60) and £500 plus VAT (£600) depending on the nature of the searches conducted), obtaining credit reference reports (between £100 plus VAT (£120) and £750 plus VAT(£900)) and process serving fees (which range between £100 plus VAT (£120) and £500 plus VAT (£600)).
In the event of enforcement action becoming necessary to engage a High Court Enforcement agent the applicable fee for transfer up of these proceedings from County Court to the High court is £66 and in the event that no recovery is possible the High Court Enforcement Officer’s fee is typically £75 plus VAT (£90).
The above information is provided as a general guide to costs in debt collection matters and is not a costs guarantee. More information regarding likely costs will usually be provided to our clients at a fixed fee interview.
| Wills | ||
| Service | Price (single) | Price (couples) |
| New Wills | £300 – £500 plus VAT | £450 – £650 plus VAT |
| Amendments to Wills (previously prepared by FJG) | £200 plus VAT | £450 – £650 plus VAT |
| Discretionary Trust Wills (Letter of Wishes to trustees included) | £700 plus VAT | £1000 plus VAT |
| Home Visit –visits are charged according to the distance from your closest FJG office. | from £50 per visit plus VAT | |
| Lasting Powers of Attorneys | ||
| Service | Price (single) | Price (couples) |
| Lasting Power of Attorney LPA (Property and Financial or Health and Welfare) | £450 plus VAT | £800 plus VAT |
| Lasting Power of Attorney LPA (Property and Financial and Health and Welfare) | £800 plus VAT | £1,400 plus VAT |
| Lasting Power of Attorney LPA (Property and Financial or Health and Welfare) and Simple Will | £650 plus VAT | £1,100 plus VAT |
| Lasting Power of Attorney LPA (Property and Financial and Health and Welfare) and Simple Will | £1000 plus VAT | £1,700 plus VAT |
| Severance of Joint tenancy | £100 plus VAT | |
| Fixed Fee Appointment | £350 plus VAT | |
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