Plain English, a fixed fee, and the first half hour free.
Sowerby & Quaye are solicitors on Harrogate Road in Chapel Allerton, Leeds: family law, buying and selling homes, wills and probate, and problems at work. Fixed fees wherever the work allows.
Book a free first call
Call 0113 496 0418
Some of our fixed fees, with VAT
Divorce, if you both agree
£650
A single will
£195
Lasting power of attorney
£395
Buying a freehold home
from £1,195
Checking a settlement agreement
£450
Your first half hour: free.
See every fee
We’ll tell you what it means.
Family
Home
Wills
Work
From a consent order
Upon the parties agreeing that the terms set out herein are accepted in full and final satisfaction of all claims for income, capital and pension sharing, it is ordered that…
In plain English
Once a judge approves this, neither of you can claim on the other’s money, home or pension again.
From a contract to buy a house
The Buyer is deemed to purchase with full knowledge of the state and condition of the Property and shall raise no requisition or objection in respect thereof.
In plain English
You’re buying the house as it is. If you want a survey, it has to happen before you exchange.
From a will
I hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last will, and I appoint my executors and trustees as follows.
In plain English
This will cancels any will you made before, and names the people who will carry it out.
From a settlement agreement
The Employee accepts the Termination Payment in full and final settlement of all claims, under statute, common law or otherwise, that the Employee has or may have against the Company.
In plain English
Sign this, and you can’t take your employer to a tribunal over anything that has happened so far.
What it costs, in writing.
Fixed fees wherever the work allows, with VAT included. Court, Land Registry and search fees are passed on at cost, and we tell you what they will be before you start.
Where a fee can’t honestly be fixed, a contested court case say, you get an estimate for each stage and our hourly rates: £220 for a solicitor, £140 for a paralegal. We write to you before we go over it.
Book a free first call
Family
Ruth Sowerby
Divorce, if you both agree The whole application, plus the court fee
£650
Financial consent order Drafted, agreed and sent to court
£950
Separation agreement
from £1,250
Prenuptial agreement
from £1,800
Advice about children And a letter to the other parent
£360
Buying and selling homes
Megan Firth
Buying a freehold home Up to £350,000
from £1,195
Selling a freehold home
from £995
Leasehold, buying or selling
add £300
Remortgage
from £550
Transfer of equity
from £650
Wills and probate
Tom Haigh
A single will
£195
Mirror wills for a couple
£325
Lasting power of attorney
£395 each
Probate Getting the grant only
£1,450
Full estate administration
from £2,950
Problems at work
Emmanuel Quaye
Checking a settlement agreement Your employer usually pays
£450
Written advice On a dismissal or a grievance
£300
An employment tribunal claim Priced stage by stage
from £2,500
Four solicitors. One of them is yours.
The solicitor you speak to in your first call is the one who does the work. You get their direct line, a reply within one working day, and an update every fortnight, even when nothing has moved. We never charge for a call to ask how things are going.
Family law
Ruth Sowerby
Set up the firm in 2012, after fourteen years at a city-centre firm.
Problems at work
Emmanuel Quaye
Co-founder. Spent eight years acting for employees before that.
Buying and selling homes
Megan Firth
Buying, selling and remortgaging, and the questions in between.
Wills and probate
Tom Haigh
Will come to your home, or to a hospital or care home, to sign a will.
Bev Atkinson runs reception, and is usually the first voice you hear. Ruth’s spaniel is in on Fridays.
What clients say
“Ruth told us in the first call what it would cost, and that is exactly what it cost.”
Claire, Moortown
“I was dreading it. Emmanuel explained the agreement line by line, and it was settled in six weeks.”
Asif, Roundhay
Book your free first half hour.
Thirty minutes by phone, by video or at our office, with the solicitor who would do the work. No charge, and nothing to sign.
0–10 min
You tell us what has happened.
10–20 min
We tell you where you stand.
20–30 min
We tell you what we would do next, and what it would cost.
Within two working days, your fixed fee in writing, with the name of the person doing the work. We don’t do legal aid work, but we will tell you in the call if you might qualify, and who does.
Rather ring or message?
0113 496 0418
WhatsApp 07700 900418
hello@sowerbyquaye.co.uk
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Free, and thirty minutes long. We confirm by email.
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Up one flight of stairs.
Our door is on Harrogate Road in Chapel Allerton, between the bakery and the bookshop. If stairs are difficult, tell us when you book, and we will see you in the ground-floor room at the back.
Address
Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7
First floor, with a ground-floor room if you need it.
Office hours
Monday to Wednesday
9am–5.30pm
Thursday
9am–7pm
Friday
9am–5pm
Saturday
10am–1pm
We see clients from
Chapel Allerton
Moortown
Roundhay
Meanwood
Headingley
Alwoodley
Harehills
And anyone in England and Wales, by phone or video.