Mcgrath & Co

The McGrath & Co Group started life in April 1981 under the title of Ault McGrath &Co, when Graham McGrath left the Handsworth Law Centre, where he had been the Senior Solicitor for the previous two years, to set up in practice with his then partner Tony Ault in a small set of offices at 11 Albert Street. Graham at that time was also a Labour Member of the Birmingham City Council.

McGrath & Co's policy and philosophy from the outset was to provide legal services to the least advantaged sections of society and to use the Public Funding Scheme to ensure that those clients for which the firm was set up for were thereby enabled to protect and enforce their rights.

The firm has always been in effect a Law Centre in terms of the type of case work it involves itself in and has always had a general policy of not wishing to expand its areas of operation to provide legal services to the better off members of society. The McGrath Group do not have a large number of commercial clients and do not in general act on behalf of limited companies as opposed to individuals.