About us

I am a sole Practioner dealing with professional negligence against solicitors, accountants, or any of the professions, disputes about probate and wills, commercial litigation, family law, employment law, boundary disputes, disputes between partners on relationship breakdown, no legal aid. free first telephone consultation

Employment Law

Have you been dismissed within the last three months?

Have you been discriminated against because of race, gender or disability? Have you been bullied or harassed?

For a FREE preliminary assessment of the merits of any claim please read carefully the points below, then proceed to a questionnaire.

I may be prepared in some cases to act on a no win no fee basis.
I am prepaed to read the questionnaire which you may complete on the next page, but until I accept the instruction to act as your solicitor and confirm that to you in writing... No Client-Solicitor relationship exists.

Completion of the questionnaire does not mean that I cannot decline to act for you without giving any explanation.

Family Law

Nigel Beaman is a member of the Solicitors Family Law Association and one of the few solicitors Accredited as a Family Law Specialist in Advocacy in Ancillary Relief and Child law cases.

The practice deals with divorce; this can be broken down into 2 parts

The Decree proceedings, leading to a Decree Nisi and later a Decree Absolute.
Ancillary Relief proceedings, where the issues of property, money and pension rights, are resolved, and disputes over Residence and Contact with children.
Whilst legal aid is not available, through this practice, arrangements can be made for payment by installments, with costs estimates being given in advance.

For example, a straightforward petition for divorce, which was not defended, would normally take about 3 hours of my time, which would equate to costs of £375.00 plus vat, with Court fees generally amounting to £180.00, plus, in some cases £7.00 in Commissioners fees. Please note this is not a quotation, it is an example; each client would be given an individual estimate and the opportunity to agree costs before they were incurred.

A preliminary interview, to obtain initial instructions on both the divorce, and any ancillary relief issues, and give preliminary advice, would normally take an hour, with the first 20 minutes of that free, resulting in a charge of £85.00 plus vat; (that hour is part of the estimated 3 hours, mentioned in the preceding paragraph).

At the Preliminary meeting, I would give an estimate of the costs of dealing with ancillary relief issues.

Where parties have already agreed financial matters between them, it is recommended that a consent order be obtained from court in the terms agreed, to produce certainty and finality. to obtain such an order, both parties have to make financial disclosure, and in some respects the costs of obtaining such an order depend upon free and frank disclosure being made, but if time has to be spent on urging parties to make or add to disclosure, this adds to the time spent and therefore the costs.

In all cases I am prepared to agree a "ceiling" on costs, to a specified point, in the proceedings with a review then to be carried out, and the client's agreement obtained, before incurring costs in excess of that ceiling.

Litigation

The practice deals with all forms of Civil Litigation including

Commercial litigation; i.e. between businesses, for example, breach of contract, sale of goods, retention of title

Civil litigation; i.e. between individuals

Commercial landlord and tenant disputes

Partnership disputes

Personal injury claims

Disqualification of directors

Property disputes

Disputes between shareholders


A free initial consultation, of up to 20 minutes, is offered to new clients, either in person or by phone.

A conditional fee agreement, (known as no win no fee) can be offered in appropriate circumstances, and after the event legal expenses insurance, can be arranged.

Estimates of costs will be given in advance and, in appropriate circumstances, schemes of payment by installments can be arranged.