
Practice Area 4
We are a foremost full-service law firm in litigation and corporate services. Our qualitative legal services in a number of practice areas that include:
- Civil Litigation
- Criminal Litigation
- Employment Law
- Personal Injuries
- Family Law
- Will/Administration of Estates
- Landlord & Tenant
- European Union | EEA Law
- Immigration and Nationality Law
Employment
We advise and assist clients with mounting an appeal with their Employer in the case of an adverse decision. We also advice, represent and assist in making claims to the Employment Tribunal on a wide range of Employment related issues such as Unfair Dismissal Claims, Discrimination Claims (Age, Sex, Religious, Race and Disability) and Constructive Dismissal Claims (being forced to resign due to the unreasonable behaviour of your boss.) Our solicitors are also available to draft or advise you on matters like Compromise Agreements and contracts of employment. We also provide advice and advocacy assistance at the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Family Law (Children and Matrimonial Law)
We advise and provide advocacy services for people involved in a range of Family law issues relationship and marriage breakdown including pre-nuptial agreements; separation; divorce; adoptions financial settlements; enforcement; child support; pensions; cohabitation; children cases; international child abduction and custody disputes; parental responsibility; Non molestation orders; residence and contact; grandparents' applications; step-parents' rights; special guardianship; specific issue orders; international family law.
Immigration – Business & Private
We provide comprehensive assistance with Business & Private, from making applications to challenging decisions before the Tribunal and the Courts. We advise both prospective employers / companies and individual applicants.
Our areas of specialization include:
Business visitor visas, temporary work and residence permits, entry clearances, entry visas and passports;
Guidance for security and medical clearance processing;
Document procurement, including acquisition, translation, legalization and apostilles;
Dependent/family member processing, Spouse Visas and Family Reunion, ability to work,
Human Rights and Discretionary Leave
Employment Visas (for both employer and employee)
Naturalisation and British Passport Applications
Long Residence
Student Applications and maintenance of status
Judicial Review Challenge
Removal/Detention
Advice on short-term assignment planning and back-to-back assignment strategies;
Guidance and assistance with applications for investors;
Personal Injury
At a time when you are recovering from injury, you can rely on our professional qualifications and dedicated approach to doing the best for you. We advise and guide you through every step of the claims process ensuring you receive the best possible outcome. We investigate and deal with complex and straightforward personal injury cases from slips, trips and falls, to accidents at work, as well as serious injury or even fatal accidents. We aim to make the claims process easy to understand and take the stress away.
Landlord and Tenant
We provide advisory services to the Landlords and separately to the Tenant at risk of eviction or who has been evicted. Our landlord and tenant disputes solicitors have the expertise and experience to guide you through issues involving the following;
For Tenants:
Eviction
Disrepair
Dispute with a Lessee and the Management company
Succession for tenants
Neighbourhood problems
For Landlords:
Possession proceedings
Legal Eviction
Practice Area 3
Quintessence Solicitors is a leading law firm of dedicated legal practitioners in the United Kingdom. We are a partnership law firm, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority with SRA Number: 640414.
We offer bespoke legal solutions to numerous corporate and individual clients in many areas of legal practice. We give attention to details and provide solutions to complex legal issues that put smiles on clients’ faces. You are the reason we are in business.
Complaint procedure
We are committed to providing a high- quality legal service to all our clients. We request that you tell us if anything goes wrong as this will help us to improve our standards. If you have a complaint, please contact us with the details.
What happens next:
- If you have concerns or problems, please first raise the matter; with the fees earner dealing with your matter. However, if you don't feel comfortable to discuss your problem with the fee earner or where you feel that the fee earner may not properly address your concerns, then; please put it in writing to the fee earner with a copy to the firm's supervisor.
- We aim to resolve your complaint within 7 weeks of your notification. We will send you a letter acknowledging receipt of your complaint within 5 days of receiving it enclosing a copy of this procedure.
- We will then carry out an investigation on the complaint; and this will involve passing the complaint to one of the Partners in the law firm.;
- One of the partners in the law firm will review the matter and speak to the fee earner who acted for you that gave rise to the complaint.
- The Partner will invite you to a meeting to discuss the matter with you and how to resolve the matter. Within 3 days of the meeting, the Partner will write to you what was discussed in the meeting and confirm any solutions that were reached or what he/she has agreed with you.
- If you do not want a meeting to take place, the Partner will write to you the result of his/her investigation and remedy available, if any.
- If you are not satisfied, you can appeal against the decision and the matter will be passed to another partner in the firm who will contact you in writing and he/she will review the matter and write to you of his/her findings.
- If you are still not happy with the outcome, you can then contact Legal Ombudsman (LeO) at PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ about your complaint. You can also reach them through their email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or telephone them on 03005550333 or +441212453050 if you are calling from overseas. (LeO) Website: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
- Please note that you will need to bring a complaint to the Ombudsman within 6 months of receiving a final notice from us about your complaint or within 6 years of the incident.
Opening Hours
Mon-Thu: 09:30 - 17:30
Fri: 09:30 - 16:00
Sat: By appointment only
Terms and Conditions
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Office Details
Unit 7 River Road Business Park,
33 River Road, Barking, IG11 0EA
Tel: 020 3603 2733
Mob: 07815 852 284/07508 335 840
Fax: 0203 417 3434
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Pricing Guide
Pricing Information
The fees and costs given in our Pricing guide are based on our experience of the likely cost of dealing with similar matters, or are based on our best estimate of the likely amount of professional time incurred. In some circumstances, we may need to revise our fee, for example, if your instructions change, or unforeseen or exceptional circumstances arise.
Unless we agree otherwise, we charge an agreed fee.
Our hourly rate ranges from £165 to £267, depending on the Solicitor handling the case and the complexity of the work.
In very exceptional cases, we may be able to accept fees lower than the minimum
fees indicated in our Pricing Guide.
Disbursements
Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as court fees, Home Office fees, or barrister’s fees and they are borne by clients.
OUR FEES
Type of Service | Fees starting from |
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Consultation by appointment | £100 |
Immigration Applications (Standard) | £1250 |
Immigration Applications (Super Priority Service) | £1500 |
Naturalisation | £900 |
Registration of children | £600 |
Entry Clearance Application (Non-Settlement) | £1000 |
Entry Clearance Application (Settlement) | £1800 |
No Recourse Applications | £600 |
TOC/NTL Applications | £500 |
Revocation of Deportation Order | £1200 |
Airport Emergency | £800 |
Administrative Reviews | £600 |
COURT WORK | |
Bail applications to the First tier Tribunal | £600 |
Representation at bail hearings | £1200 |
Filing Immigration Appeal with the First tier Tribunal | £500 |
Court representation in the First tier Tribunal | £1,500 |
Representation at Case Management Reviews | £600 |
Applications for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal | £600 |
Representation at the Upper Tribunal (PTA) | £1,200 |
Judicial Review | £2,500 |
Renewal of JR application | £800 |
Court representation at JR permission hearing | £1200 |
Court representation at JR substantive hearing | £2000 |
FAMILY | |
Divorce Petition (Uncontested) | £900 |
Divorce Petition (Contested) | To be assessed on a case by case basis |
Children applications | £1,500 includes 1st court hearing |
Occupation & Non-Molestation Application | £1,500 |
EMPLOYMENT | |
Pre-Termination Representation | £900 |
ACAS stage | £500 |
Filing of Claim | To be assessed on a case by case basis |
CIVIL LITIGATION | |
Pre-Action Protocol | £1200 |
Pre-Trial | To be assessed on case by case basis |
Trial | To be assessed on case by case basis |
WILL DRAFTING | £300 |
PROBATE (Non-Contentious) |
To be assessed on case by case basis depending on the size and complexity of the Estate as well as the location of the assets. Minimum fee of £750 applies in the case of fixed fee arrangement |
PERSONAL INJURIES |
To be assessed on case by case basis depending on the complexity of the matter and may be on the basis of No Win No Fee |
Practice Area-1
We are a foremost full-service law firm in litigation and corporate services. Our qualitative legal services in a number of practice areas that include: