Areas
Family
The family team at Westfield Solicitors understand that separation and divorce is often a time of conflict and heartache
If you are thinking about separating or are going through a separation or divorce, you probably have all sorts of questions and worries about what the future holds and how to manage both the practicalities and the emotional impact of the relationship ending. The priority of any lawyer is to minimise the stress that relationship breakdown can often bring by delivering a confidential, unbiased, and responsive service that helps you to deal with the present and look ahead to the future.
Our solicitors within the family team never lose sight of the real issues that are important to you and we work closely with you to achieve swift, practical and, wherever possible, amicable solutions.
We can help and advise you on all aspects of family law including:
- Divorce and separation (including financial implications such as property, pensions and maintenance)
- Domestic abuse and emergency injunctions
- Children matters (including children arrangements, parental responsibility, special guardianship, adoption and changes of name)
- Pre and post-nuptial agreements
- Living together agreements
- Cohabitation disputes
- Same-sex relationships
If you have a divorce or family problem, you can always discuss it with us. No matter how small or large, we will be able to help. To find out more, click on the direct dial number, contact 02039238267 or send an email to info@westfieldsolicitors.com.
Commercial and Corporate
We deliver legal advice in a commercial and plain language, and we act for a number of industry-renowned businesses including start-ups.
- Agency agreements
- Asset sales and purchases
- Commercial supply agreements
- Company formations
- Data Protection
- Distribution agreements (including cross-border)
- E-Commerce & Distance Selling (online sales and distributions)
- Franchise agreements
- Intellectual property
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private finance initiative & Public-Private Partnership
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholders agreements
- Share sales and purchases
- Terms and conditions
Immigration
We can deal with all types of applications to the UK Border Agency and help with your immigration needs. We can deal with all types of applications to the UK Border Agency and help with your immigration needs in the following areas.
- Applications for visa and entry clearance
- Citizenship and nationality
- Work permits and business applications
- Relationship and marriage applications
- Asylum and Human rights applications
- Students
- EEC Residence permits
- Spouses and unmarried partners
- Visitors (general)
- Dependant relatives
- Premium / Same Day Visa Service
We offer competitive private fee rates and fixed fees for standard applications.
Real Estate
We can deal with residential property in the local area and beyond.
We have built a strong reputation over the years for our level of service with a high percentage of work coming from existing clients and repeat business from our regular referrers as well as recommendations.
Our highly qualified team of solicitors can provide you with advice and support in the following areas:
- Buying or selling a residential property and garden land.
- Remortgages
- Transfer of Equity)
- Changing the ownership of a property following an Order made in matrimonial or other civil proceedings
- Gift of land
- Severance of Joint Tenancy
- Full cycle commercial property transactions.
- Sale of small business, leases, variation of leases, sale and purchase of commercial properties, assignment, and subleases.
- Drafting of option agreement, overage agreement, deed of covenants, Section 102, 104 and 106 Agreements. Handled a broad range of commercial property transactions.
Civil Litigation
Contentious and Non-Contentious matters
- Disputes involving breach of contract.
- Misrepresentation (mis-selling),negligent mis-statement, undue influence,
- Duress and estoppel as well as disputes in relation to the interpretation of agreements,
- Sale of Goods Act (including hire purchase disputes, return of goods and conversion), Consumer Credit Act, personal guarantees and the forfeiture/return of deposits.
- Act on behalf of landlords, their managing agents and tenants and is familiar with all aspects of the Land Registry Tribunal, including property management disputes, service charges, collective enfranchisement, and enforcement proceedings in the county court (post CLRA 2002.
- Advises, drafts, and conducts trials on behalf of landlords and tenants in claims for possession under the Housing Acts 1985, 1988, 1996 (as amended) and Rent Act for and against secure, assured, and protected tenants, succession disputes.