Our Fees

This fee includes us considering the evidence and advising you at our offices or at Court as you prefer.

You may feel you need some advice before you arrive at Court, or get things clear in your head to make your hearing less stressful. 

You might need advice about what plea you should enter and the likely outcome, and whether you even need a lawyer.

For those who have been interviewed under caution by the police and left uncertain, especially if the police have imposed onerous bail conditions upon you, our considerable experience of these matters does enable us to provide solid advice about the possible outcomes and what you might wish to do in relation to bail conditions such as applying to the Court to change them. 

We otherwise offer advice in relation to applications made, varied, or discharged at Court such as Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Closure Orders, Restraining Orders, Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Proceeds of Crime, and Criminal Behaviour Orders.

Our expertise also includes road traffic matters such as speeding, careless driving, no insurance, drink & drug driving offences, and special reasons and exceptional hardship hearings, where specialist advice can sometimes mean the difference between losing your licence and keeping it with fewer (or no!) penalty points.

You need a specialist lawyer who will fight your corner to help achieve the best possible outcome. 

We will take your instructions on the evidence, advise on the appropriate plea then advise you as to the Magistrates' Court's powers of sentence and the range of sentences that might be imposed in your particular case. Thereafter we will begin the process of taking details from you in relation to mitigation (also known as trying to persuade the Court to impose a more lenient sentence).

In relation to offences which can be heard before the Crown Court, we will advise you in relation to the best place for your case to be heard (for trial or sentence), provide our expertise in choosing a barrister to represent you, and ensure you receive the high quality representation you deserve in relation to such serious allegations.

For "indictable-only" offences where the Magistrates' Court only sends the case to the Crown Court, we only charge £250 as there is less to advise you upon.

What really makes the biggest difference to sentence is what is said on your behalf at your sentencing hearing itself. We pride ourselves in the quality of our advocacy and will endeavour to ensure the best possible outcome at the first available opportunity. 

Once you have been sentenced, as part of our services we will also  advise you as to your prospects of successfully appealing your sentence to the Crown Court. 

Fees for representation at trial are difficult to determine without knowing the complexity of your case, the length of your trial, the number of witnesses, and whether any expert evidence is required. What you can be sure of is, once we are able to provide you with a quote, that our fee will be competitive and not inflated just because you are receiving specialist advice.

Please note that we do not charge any additional fees for hearings at the Magistrates' Court where the matter had  to be adjourned out to a later date through no fault of your own. This is sometimes inevitable depending on the type of matter you face. This differs from many other firms.

We are not able to provide an estimate of fixed costs in relation to Crown Court Proceeding without first having sufficient knowledge of those proceedings. This is because Crown Court proceedings vary enormously as to the seriousness of the charge, the complexities of the evidence, the number of witnesses being called and the actual length of trial.

It is highly likely that you are eligible for legal aid in the Crown Court but for those who  are ineligible or unwilling for us to represent them as part of the legal aid scheme, we will take steps to provide you with fixed fees for these proceedings.