(Varies based on case complexity)
Costs:
Who Will Carry Out the Work?
- Director & Associate Solicitor assisted by Assistant Solicitor & Paralegal
- All work is supervised by a Director, who retains ultimate responsibility and conduct of matters.
Hourly Rates:
- Director: £260 – £360 plus VAT at 20%
- Associate Solicitor: £180-£250 plus VAT at 20%
- Assistant Solicitor: £150 – £180 plus VAT at 20%
- Trainee Solicitor: £120-£150 plus VAT at 20%
- Paralegal/Caseworker: £100 – £150 plus VAT at 20%
Our fees in this matter will be chargeable on hourly rate basis.
On average, this type of work requires 5 to 40 hours. The exact number of hours depends on the specific circumstances of your case, including factors such as:
- Amount of supporting evidence required
- Opponent’s conduct
- Number of parties involved
- Historical background
- Unforeseen applications and complexities
- Cooperation level from the opponent
- Jurisdictions of parties (additional costs may apply for defendants outside the jurisdiction)
- Service complications
- Asset investigations or tracing
- Language barriers or translation needs
Please note these costs ONLY relate to enforcement action on judgments.
Included Services:
- Initial attendance and consideration of options
- Advising on the next steps and how to proceed
- Reviewing and advising on documentation
- Undertaking appropriate searches
- Sending preliminary communication regarding enforcement
Excluded Costs:
- Court fees such as issue fees (find updated list of Court fees)
- Disbursements such as barristers’ fees, experts’ fees, search fees, etc.
- Enforcement action fees such as High Court Enforcement Office, bailiffs’ fees, land registry fees, process server fees, asset trace company fees, etc.
- Additional complexity requiring a revised fee quote
We will inform you at the earliest opportunity and before any additional fees are incurred if any of these exclusions apply.
Timescale:
Where a matter is resolved without the need for Court proceedings, the process of the matter usually take between 6 and 12 weeks from receipt of instructions from client to receipt of payment from the other party.
However, where resolution cannot be achieved through pre-action and Court proceedings are necessary and are issued, the timescale could be over nine months, depending on various factors, such as, the Directions of the Court (how many they are and the length of time given to respond to each), whether Case Management Hearing is necessary (and how many in the case), whether an expert evidence/ witness is required in the matter, availabilities/Court’s time, etc. Given these many possible eventualities and probabilities, timescale is in each case depends on the fact and nature of the case and are therefore, this time to matter, dealt with on a case-by-case basis. We will normally advise each client based on their individual circumstances appertaining every stage of their case.
