Freelance Solicitor
Solution focused legal advice.
ABOUT ME
Affordable legal advice and services.
I am a qualified solicitor with prior experience in a Legal 500 Tier 1 Dispute Resolution team in a regional law firm.
I help clients to solve their problems in the most cost effective way.
I also offer services traditonal of a solicitor at a fraction of the cost compared to a law firm.
- Qualified solicitor in England and Wales
- 5+ years Post-Qualification Experience
- Member of the Property Litigation Association and Law Society
- Wide ranging experience in property and other legal matters
LEGAL SERVICES
What I can do for you.
01
Property
Advise and represent you on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious residential and commercial property matters
- Neighbour disputes
- Adverse possession
- Rights and easements
- Party Wall Act
- Restrictive covenant
- Access
- Rent charges
- Landlord and tenant
- Lease renewals
- Registration matters at HM Land Registry
- Lease disputes
- Rent arrears
02
Administrative
Provide administrative services typical of a solicitor, several of which can be offered on a fixed fee basis
- Land Registry ID1 / ID5 (verification of identify)
- Document witnessing and ceritification
- Passports
- Name change by deed poll
- Witnessing signatures
- Certifying copies of documents
- Solicitor certification of documents
- Statutory declarations
03
Independent Legal Advice (ILA)
Advise you on agreements requiring ‘Independent Legal Advice’ to have been given
- Employment settlement agreements
- General settlement agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Guarantees
- Personal guarantees
- Other agreements where a solicitor is required to confirm that advice has been given
04
Contract review
Advise and represent you on most contracts and agreements
- Reviewing a document before signing
- Explaining the legal effect of a document
- Highlighting unusual or potentially problematic provisions
EXPERIENCE AND TESTIMONIALS
Trusted by invidiuals and businesses.
- Successfully applied for adverse possession over an unregistered parcel of land at the bottom of a client’s garden that he had maintained for several years.
- Secured a manageable payment plan with a car insurance company for a client who had a County Court Judgment against her.
- Several cases of successfully evicting residential tenants.
- Agreed a better position of a client’s boundary than originally claimed by a large housing developer.
- Advised a Church regarding the legal responsibility for maintenance of a boundary wall.
REGULATORY INFORMATION
What you need to know.
Simon Read is a solicitor authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) operating under SRA regulation 10.2.
SRA number: 661736
Simon Read practises as an SRA-authorised freelance solicitor on his own account.
Business address:
33 Peacock Lane, Biddenham, Bedfordshire, MK40 4WS
Information regarding complaints procedures, terms of business and other regulatory matters is available as part of the client onboarding process.
Simon Read | Solicitor 