Your Local Solicitors In Sutton Weaver

If you are looking for legal services in Sutton Weaver, our Solicitors can help. Our expert team assist individuals and businesses in the local area, with specialist advice tailored to your legal needs.

Our Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with a range of Commercial Law matters including Commercial Property, Employment Law and business sales and purchases.

We also offer a range of Personal Law services to meet the needs of you and your family including Residential Property, Wills and Probate and Family Law.

Our team have a strong knowledge of the local area and can offer professional and personalised advice to help you achieve your goals.

We have several Law Society accreditations which recognise the specialist legal advice we provide as well as our exceptional service.

If you would like to speak to a local Lawyer in Sutton Weaver, please call us today and we will be happy to help.

Our legal services for businesses

Commercial law

As a business, it’s important to have a Solicitor on hand who can help you achieve your commercial goals and mitigate any legal issues before they arise.

Our Commercial Law Solicitors can help you fulfil your legal responsibilities and resolve any disputes in a timely and cost effective manner.

Our Commercial Law Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including:

• • Agency and distribution contracts
  • IP and IT contracts
  • Outsourcing agreements
  • NDAs and confidentiality agreements
• Resolving commercial disputes

Commercial property

Our Commercial Property Solicitors will conduct due diligence on your behalf to ensure you are well equipped with all the information you need to make decisions in the best interest of your business.

Our Commercial Property Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Commercial leases
• Land promotion, options and overage agreements
• Sales
• Purchases
• Pension fund property dealings
• Site acquisition and development

Agriculture

If you are a farmer, land owner or agri-business operator requiring legal advice, it is advisable to instruct a specialist Agriculture Solicitor.

This is a complex area of the law that requires a specialist understanding to best protect the interests of your farming business.

Our Agriculture Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Farm and estate sales and purchases
• Business structures
• Farming tenancies and licences
• Commercial agreements
• Land promotion, options and overage agreements
• Covenants, easements and rights of way
• Renewables
• Equine

Corporate law

Structuring your organisation in the right way and having well-drafted legal documents in place can help mitigate any risks further down the line.

Our Solicitors advise businesses, including partnerships and companies on the best way to manage your company structure, contacts and assets.

Legal services provided by our Corporate Law Solicitors in Sutton Weaver include:

• Business structures
• Shareholder agreements
• Commercial agreements
• Franchising
• Share sales and purchases – buying or selling a company or interest in a company
• Asset sales and purchases
• Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
• Asset finance and secured lending
• Insolvency
• Succession planning

Employment Law for employers

As an employer, you will have a range of legal issues to deal with, from drafting legally sound contracts that protect your business to handling disputes raised by employees.

Our Team provides advice and guidance across a full range of Employment Law issues and we can work with you to ensure your business thrives.

Our Employment Law Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Directors service agreements
• Disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Employment contracts, staff handbooks and general policies and procedures
• Redundancy
• Settlement agreements
• TUPE and business transfers
• Workplace discrimination
• Employment tribunals and ACAS pre claim conciliation

Notarial

A Notary Public is a recognised legal professional who can prepare and officiate legal documents.

At Butcher & Barlow, we have five Notaries working across the region all of whom are qualified Solicitors who have undertaken further study and additional examinations in order to make sure they are sufficiently qualified.

Our Notary Publics in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Authenticating documents as acceptable proofs of name, status or qualification for use abroad e.g. passports and birth certificates.
• Authenticating Powers of Attorney in connection with foreign property purchases.
• Drawing, attesting or certifying documents and deeds, including wills and conveyances of real and personal property.
• Arranging for the legalisation of documents for use abroad at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and foreign Consulates.
• The completion and authentication of papers in connection with Immigration matters.
• The presentation of Bills of Exchange for payment.
• The verification of translations from foreign languages into English and Vice Versa.

Charities

We provide pragmatic and commercially focused legal support to several charities’ senior management teams and trustees.

Our Solicitors ensure that their organisations run as efficiently as possible and that they can deliver the best outcome for their beneficiaries.

Our Charities Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Establishment and corporate structure
• Trustee and governance support
• Regulation and compliance
• Mergers or winding up
• Property and land
• People

Our legal services for individuals

Family law

Family matters can often be complex with a number of practical and emotional decisions to consider.

Our Family Law Team can support you with empathetic and practical advice that will help you reach the best possible outcome for you and your family in the long term.

Our Family Law Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with matters, including:

• Finances and settlements
• Divorce and civil partnership and dissolution
• Children issues
• Domestic abuse and protection from harassment
• Care and social services
• Setting up relationships
• Prenuptial agreements

Our experienced Family Law Team has several members and accredited specialists of family law associations including Resolution and the Law Society’s Children Law and Advanced Family Law Panels.

Residential Property

Whether you are buying, selling, remortgaging or transferring ownership of a property, having the expertise of an experienced property Solicitor on your side can make the process smoother and more cost-effective.

Our Residential Property Team have many years of experience successfully completing transactions for clients in the local area.

Our Residential Property Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with a range of transactions including:

• Sales
• Purchases
• Remortgages
• Transfers of equity
• Auction properties
• Leasehold enfranchisement

We hold the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality accreditation in recognition of our legal expertise in property law and the high standards of service we provide.

Wills and probate

If you are looking to prepare or update your Will, we can assist with drafting a Will that is legally sound and ensures your assets are distributed in accordance with your wishes.

We can advise you on issues such as providing for dependants, putting money and property into a trust, managing Inheritance Tax and choosing Executors.

If you are dealing with the estate of a family member, we can assist you throughout the process, offering emotional support and ensuring all of your legal responsibilities are fulfilled.

Our Wills and Probate Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Making a Will
• Updating a Will
• Tax and succession planning
• Setting up trusts
• Administering an estate
• Care funding advice
• Contested probate

Medical Negligence and Personal Injury

If you have been harmed due to medical negligence or injured in an accident that was not your fault, you may be entitled to claim compensation.

Our Solicitors can assess the eligibility of your claim and support you to claim compensation for the mental and physical impact on your life, which can aid in your recovery.

Our Medical Negligence and Personal Injury Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with medical negligence matters including:

• GP negligence
• Hospital negligence
• Dental negligence
• Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis
• Surgical errors
• Birth injuries

We can also support clients who have a personal injury claim in one of the following areas:

• Accidents at work
• Public liability
• Fatal accident claims
• Catastrophic injury claims
• Road traffic accident claims:
• Motor Insurers Bureau claims
• Industrial disease claims

Our Medical Negligence and Personal Injury team hold the Law Society’s accreditation for clinical negligence.

Employment law for employees

If you are facing any issues at work, including unfair dismissal discrimination or harassment, we can support you.

Our Employment Law Solicitors understand the importance of advocating for employees’ rights and ensuring you are supported in taking action against unfair treatment.

We have the necessary expertise to pursue compensation claims and advocate for our clients at an employment tribunal.

Our Employment Law Solicitors in Sutton Weaver can assist with:

• Dismissals and redundancy
• Contracts
• Discrimination and harassment
• Employment rights

How to reach our Solicitors in Sutton Weaver

Please attend our Sutton Weaver office by appointment only, our office has car parking facilities on site.

You can plan your journey to our Sutton Weaver office here.

Contact Butcher & Barlow

To enquire further about any of our Personal, Family, or Commercial services, please do not hesitate to contact our Sutton Weaver office.

You can call us on 01928 576 056, email us at enquiries@butcher-barlow.co.uk, or fill in our online contact form.