BHD Solicitors London

We have two offices in Croydon and Central London, where you can meet our lawyers. We frequently visit clients throughout the UK, meeting at their homes or business premises, working on-site as required in some cases.

To find out how we can help you, please call us or send us an email. Our initial communication is simply to discuss your requirements with no obligation or fees. This often leads to a consultation with the appropriate lawyer at an office convenient for you. Once you have instructed us, further meetings would most likely continue at your initial choice of office.

We are a niche law firm providing varied services tailored around our clients. We can provide you with expert advice on matters including but not limited to:

• Brexit
• Business Disputes
• Citizenship & Nationality
• Commercial
• Commercial Property
• Company Law
• Corporate Law
• Corporate Immigration
• Divorce Law
• Employment Law
• Entertainment and Media Law
• Estate Planning
• Family Law
• Judicial Reviews
• Landlord & Tenant
• Legal Services for High Net Worth Individuals
• Legal Aid Immigration
• Private Immigration
• Probate
• Sports People & Organisations
• Wills

We were originally founded in the early 1980s and have been practising ever since. We are a progressive law firm and having started as only an immigration practice, we developed into a private firm offering a bespoke legal services for businesses, individuals and families, usually looking for a close working relationship with genuine people who care about achieving the best for clients. We have clients from all across the UK and internationally based.

Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. However, we’re committed to returning calls within 24 hours or less, so please feel free to contact us outside of these hours and we’ll get back to you.

For more information on our legal services or how we can help you, please call us and we’ll be happy to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Alternatively, you can email us and one of our team will call you back.

A legal consultation is the term used to describe the process during which a lawyer discusses a client’s situation at length and provides them with regulated legal advice regarding their current position, options, and identifies the eligibility and documentary requirements that would need to be met to achieve the client’s desired outcome.

We take instructions from clients based across the world on a daily basis. We have a robust and efficient remote process which means we handle the entire matter without you ever needing to come to our office in person. For our UK based clients, we recognise that you lead busy lives and don’t have the time to take time away from your schedules to visit us in person. Our unique structure also allows us to operate at optimum efficiency and offer you a personalised service regardless of your location. We do of course; welcome clients face to face also by prior appointment.

We don’t charge for initial conversations to best understand your matter and see how we can assist. We do not offer a free initial consultation, but we do offer a very competitively priced initial consultation with an experienced immigration lawyer, reflective of the experience, skills and knowledge of the lawyer best suited to understand your case and provide the best solutions.

Depending on your matter, its complexities and level of involvement required, we charge a starting fixed fee of £400 + VAT with our Senior Partner, £250 + VAT for an hour’s consultation with one of our immigration lawyers and £150 + VAT with a junior lawyer. Consultations can be in person, over the phone or by video conferencing.

We pride ourselves on complete transparency and where possible adopt a 100% agreed fixed fee model. This means we will take the time to understand exactly what your circumstances are and what assistance we can offer. We do this by providing free needs assessment in the first instance. Following the assessment, we will provide you with an instant agreed fixed fee and totally no obligation quotation. You can then decide if you want to proceed. With certain type of matters we will act on an hourly rates basis providing an estimate of costs, where it may not be possible to provide an accurate estimate of fees due to the nature of the work. Once we have understood your case better and reviewed any existing documents, we will be better placed to quote hourly rate or fixed fees.

In order to maintain high efficiency levels, all appointments are strictly by prior arrangement only. This ensures that existing client files get the attention they deserve as well as ensuring that the solicitor is sufficiently prepared to handle your specific enquiries. If you want to simply discuss your circumstances in detail and have your options confirmed with you, you will need to book a legal consultation.

It is our firm’s policy that your first consultation will take place with an experienced lawyer, best placed to work out your case plan and strategy. The initial consultation is in many ways a diagnostic consultation, and meeting with somebody very experienced from the outset means that we can ensure that every angle of your case is looked at. The person that you initially meet with will in most instances lead your case with other team members assisting where appropriate.

Yes of course, however before taking on your matter we usually discuss and review your case at consultation. Here we decide if it will be cost-effective for you to change lawyers based on the stage your matter is at, where we can add more value to your matter we will gladly accept your instructions and obtain your file from your current lawyer. It’s a much simpler process than you might think and we’ll take care of the formalities for you.

We have a transparent and easy 4 step process:

1. Contact us now for a free assessment – one of our friendly team will assess your circumstances and will confirm your options and arrange your consultation. take your instructions.
2. The legal consultation will be carried out either by phone or in person with one of our experienced lawyers. Your documents and instructions will be analysed and reviewed, the merits of your case established, with a plan of action devised and confirmation of our fixed fee or estimate of costs.
3. You follow our step by step guidance and provide supporting documentation and information  – We handle the entire matter including strategy, documentation preparation, application lodging, court directions, negotiations, etc…
4. Your matter will eventually reach its conclusion and up until this stage we would have provided full representation and taken the stresses of your case on our shoulders

The first step is always to reach out to us, make contact and let us take lead from there. The consultation is a highly crucial part of the process and will allow us to place you with one of our lawyers so that we can assess your matter and advise on the available options. If you are overseas, you can book a consultation over the phone or video conferencing facility which we will arrange allowing us to have a laptop meeting.

To start acting for a client, we will need our agreement signed by the client and once we have our legal fee paid on account, we can start representing a client on their matter.

We accept payments by bank transfer, by cash in person in our offices and by debit/credit card over the phone. There is a 3% surcharge on all credit card payments.

We accept the following card providers:

• Mastercard debit/credit
• Visa debit/credit
• Visa Electron
• American Express
• Discover
• JCB
• Maestro
• Union pay

The best way to contact us is to call the office, send your online enquiry or an email as indicated via the options under this contact page. Our lawyers will get back to you.