Solicitors and free legal help in England
A directory of active solicitors, barristers, law centres and helplines in England. Understand who can help with your legal matter, where they are located, and how they charge.
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ABR Solicitors Limited
A criminal defence solicitors' firm with its head office in Leeds and twelve offices across England and Wales. It lists no housing work.
- Where
- Leeds, London and Manchester
- How to get help
- Phone
Antony Hodari Solicitors
A Manchester solicitors' firm that acts only for tenants on housing disrepair claims across England, covering damp and mould, leaks and water damage, heating and hot water, vermin and infestation and structural defects. It works under conditional fee agreements.
- Where
- Manchester and Liverpool
- How to get help
- Phone
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Bell Lamb & Joynson
A solicitors' firm with six offices across the North West and its registered head office in Runcorn. Its published services are conveyancing, crime, family, wills and probate, motoring and probate disputes; it does not offer housing law.
- Where
- Runcorn and Liverpool
- How to get help
- Phone
Bhatia Best Limited
A solicitors' firm with offices in Nottingham, Derby and Mansfield. It works in crime, family, civil litigation and personal injury, and its public law team takes Housing Act judicial reviews against local authorities under a Legal Aid Agency contract.
- Where
- Nottingham, Derby and Mansfield
- How to get help
- Phone
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CEL Solicitors
CEL Solicitors is the trading name of Cheshire Estate and Legal Limited, an SRA-licensed body based in Liverpool. It handles tenant housing matters including housing disrepair and related claims, alongside other civil litigation work.
- Where
- Liverpool
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Clifford Johnston & Co Limited
A solicitors' firm with offices in Manchester and Stockport. It provides legal aid in criminal defence, mental health and housing work for tenants.
- Where
- Manchester and Stockport
- How to get help
- Phone
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DPP Law Ltd
A solicitors' firm with its head office in Bootle and further offices in Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Tolworth. Its published practice areas are criminal defence, actions against the police, fraud, motoring, family and personal injury, with no housing work listed.
- Where
- Bootle
- How to get help
- Phone
Duncan Lewis Solicitors Ltd
A solicitors' firm with its head office in the City of London and further offices across England and Wales. Its housing department covers disrepair, homelessness, illegal eviction and possession, and it holds a Legal Aid Agency contract.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
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Family Law Group
A family law firm with its head office in Nottingham and offices across the East Midlands and East Anglia. It lists divorce and separation, child arrangements, care proceedings, matrimonial finance, mediation, domestic abuse injunctions and adoption; housing is not among its practice areas.
- Where
- Nottingham
- How to get help
Forbes Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm whose registered head office is at Walton Summit, Preston, Lancashire. It is a recognised body authorised for all legal services.
- Where
- Preston
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Hatchers Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm with offices in Shrewsbury and Whitchurch, Shropshire. Its landlord and tenant team describes acting for landlord clients on matters including possession claims, rent arrears and covenant enforcement.
- Where
- Shrewsbury and Whitchurch
- How to get help
- Phone
Hine Solicitors Limited
A general practice solicitors' firm with its head office in Beaconsfield and fourteen offices across England, including Bristol. Its property disputes team handles residential and commercial landlord and tenant matters, including possession claims and disrepair.
- Where
- Bristol
- How to get help
- Phone
Howells Solicitors
A solicitors' firm with offices in Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley. Its listed services are personal injury, public law children and care proceedings, civil liberties, criminal defence, family law, medical negligence, conveyancing and private client work; housing is not among them.
- Where
- Sheffield
- How to get help
- Phone
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IRMO
A Latin American community organisation based in Lambeth, south London. Its advice service offers individual advice and casework in Spanish and Portuguese on immigration, welfare benefits, housing, homelessness prevention and access to healthcare, alongside English classes, training and youth programmes.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
Irvine Thanvi Natas
A solicitors' firm with its head office in the City of London and offices in Stratford, Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford. Its published practice areas are crime, immigration, human rights, public law and inquests, with no housing work listed.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
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Lawtons Solicitors Limited
A criminal defence solicitors' firm with its head office in St Albans and further offices across the east of England and the Midlands. The firm states it does not deal with any other type of law.
- Where
- St Albans
- How to get help
- Phone
Leonard Gray LLP
Leonard Gray LLP is a solicitors' firm at 72-74 Duke Street, Chelmsford, Essex. Its landlord and tenant page covers tenancy agreements, rent disputes, repair issues, notices, deposits and tenant evictions, and is written for landlords.
- Where
- Chelmsford
- How to get help
- Phone
- In person
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MSB Solicitors Limited
A full service solicitors' firm with its head office in Liverpool and further offices in Manchester, Chester, Widnes and Birmingham. Its housing work is for private landlords and letting agents and for registered providers of social housing and local authorities, not for tenants.
- Where
- Liverpool
- How to get help
- Phone
Miles & Partners LLP
A London solicitors' firm near Liverpool Street acting for tenants on access to social housing, possession proceedings, property in disrepair, unlawful eviction, deposit protection, rent repayment orders, tenancy assignment and succession, and homelessness. It also does family, community care, Court of Protection and public law work.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
Morrison Spowart
A solicitors firm in Catford, south east London, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Its housing team acts for tenants, homeless applicants and trespassers on eviction, disrepair, harassment and unlawful eviction, mortgage repossession and homelessness applications, and it holds a Legal Aid Agency franchise.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
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PCB Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm with seven offices across Shropshire, Powys and Telford. Its published practice areas do not include housing, landlord and tenant, disrepair or eviction work.
- Where
- Shrewsbury
- How to get help
- Phone
Paragon Law Limited
Paragon Law Limited is an immigration law firm with offices in Nottingham and London. Its published services are business, personal, family and education immigration.
- Where
- Nottingham and London
- How to get help
- Phone
Poole Alcock LLP
Poole Alcock LLP is a solicitors' firm with its head office at Minerva House, Gadbrook Park, Northwich, Cheshire. Its litigation team handles residential landlord and tenant disputes for both landlords and tenants, including defending section 8 and section 21 notices.
- Where
- Northwich, Solihull, West Malling and Leatherhead
- How to get help
- Phone
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Reeds Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm with its head office in Oxford and offices across England and Wales. Its published practice areas are criminal defence, motoring, family, immigration, mental health, prison law and regulatory work, with no housing work listed.
- Where
- Oxford
- How to get help
- Phone
Russell & Russell Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm with its head office in Bolton and further offices across Greater Manchester and Chester. It works in conveyancing, family, wills and probate, personal injury, criminal defence and commercial property; its landlord and tenant work is commercial.
- Where
- Bolton
- How to get help
- Phone
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Safer Renting
A project of the charity Cambridge House giving specialist advice, support and advocacy to private renters victimised by criminal landlords, mainly on harassment and illegal eviction. It is not a direct access or self-referral service: renters must be referred by one of its partner local authorities.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
- Access
- Referral only
Shah Hague Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm in Sheffield city centre. The services it lists are criminal defence and motoring law.
- Where
- Sheffield
- How to get help
- Phone
Shelter emergency helpline
Shelter's free helpline for people who are homeless, have nowhere to stay tonight, are at risk of abuse or harm at home, or are worried about losing their home in the next two months. Open Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, and closed at weekends and on bank holidays.
- Where
- England
- How to get help
- Phone
Sills & Betteridge LLP
A solicitors' firm with its head office in Lincoln and seventeen offices across Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Its residential property team advises landlords and tenants on letting matters; it does not publish a tenant housing dispute service.
- Where
- Lincoln
- How to get help
- Phone
SilverOak Solicitors
SilverOak Solicitors is the trading name of SilverOak Legal Limited, based at 178b Mansell Road, Greenford. It runs housing disrepair claims for council and housing association tenants on a no win no fee basis, alongside personal injury, medical negligence and immigration work.
- Where
- Greenford
- How to get help
- Phone
Simpson Millar LLP
A solicitors' firm with its head office in Leeds and further offices in Bristol, Cardiff, Lancaster, Liverpool, London and Manchester. Its listed practice areas are personal injury, medical negligence, military claims, abuse claims, childcare and education, family law, Court of Protection and public law and human rights; housing is not among them.
- Where
- Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Lancaster, Liverpool, London and Manchester
- How to get help
- Phone
Slater Heelis
A solicitors' firm with its registered office in Sale and further offices in Manchester, Chester and several other English cities. Its dispute resolution team handles residential and commercial landlord and tenant disputes, including possession claims, eviction notices, rent arrears and deposit disputes.
- Where
- Sale, Manchester and Chester
- How to get help
- Phone
Stephen Rimmer LLP
Stephen Rimmer LLP is a solicitors' firm with offices in Eastbourne, Bexhill-on-Sea and Hastings. Its dispute resolution team handles residential landlord and tenant disputes over rent arrears, repairs and breach of tenancy, and its eviction service is written for landlords.
- Where
- Eastbourne, Bexhill-on-Sea and Hastings
- How to get help
- Phone
- In person
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TV Edwards LLP
A London solicitors' firm with offices in Whitechapel and Clapham Junction. Its housing team acts for social housing and private tenants on defending possession claims and eviction, harassment and unlawful eviction, homelessness, poor housing conditions, housing debt, allocation of social housing and related judicial review.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
Tuckers Solicitors LLP
A criminal defence firm with its head office in London and offices across England. Its published practice areas are criminal, regulatory, prison and immigration law; it does not list housing work.
- Where
- London
- How to get help
- Phone
Turpin & Miller LLP
Turpin & Miller LLP is a solicitors' firm at 1 Agnes Court, Oxford Road, Oxford. Its housing team defends possession and injunction proceedings, brings disrepair claims and challenges homelessness decisions, much of it under legal aid.
- Where
- Oxford and Reading
- How to get help
- Phone
- In person
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Wace Morgan Limited
A solicitors' firm with offices in Shrewsbury and Telford. Its dispute resolution team handles landlord and tenant disputes, property disputes and possession proceedings on a fee-paying basis, and offers fixed-fee mediation.
- Where
- Shrewsbury and Telford
- How to get help
- Phone
Ward Gethin Archer Limited
Ward Gethin Archer Limited is a solicitors' firm with its head office at 10 Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and further offices across Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Its published services are conveyancing, family, wills and probate, personal injury, disputes, business, employment and notary work.
- Where
- King's Lynn
Whiterose Blackmans Solicitors LLP
A solicitors' firm in Leeds with offices at Headingley and Leeds city centre. It acts for tenants in unlawful eviction and housing disrepair matters, and separately holds legal aid for criminal work.
- Where
- Leeds
- How to get help
- Phone
- In person
Winston Solicitors
Winston Solicitors is the trading name of Winston Solicitors (UK) Limited, at 112 Street Lane, Leeds. Its published practice areas are family, conveyancing, wills and probate, employment, personal injury, criminal injuries compensation, insolvency, NHS continuing healthcare and business law.
- Where
- Leeds
- How to get help
- Phone
Witan Solicitors Limited
Witan Solicitors Limited is a litigation firm with its head office in Birmingham and further offices in Northampton, Wellingborough and London. It handles residential landlord and tenant disputes for either side, including possession, rent arrears and termination of tenancy.
- Where
- Birmingham, Northampton, Wellingborough and London
- How to get help
- Phone
Commonly asked before choosing the right solicitor
It depends. Three things have to line up: your problem has to be one that legal aid covers, your income and savings have to be under the limits, and your case has to have a realistic chance of success. Providers marked Legal aid can check all three with you, and Remedy can help you gather and review what they will ask for.
Some of the organisations listed provide their service entirely free. Others offer a free initial consultation, often around 30 minutes. Remedy is always free to get started, and we make sure you are matched with services that fit your budget.
It depends on your situation. Nationwide options include Shelter and Citizens Advice, and there are many local and issue-specific charities too. Remedy will always try to match you to the support most likely to help with your specific situation.
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