Pricing Transparency | Emmanuel Solicitors

OUR PRICING TRANSPARENCY

1. Our General Consultation fee is £100 for remote/telephone and £150 for physical attendance, up to a maximum of 1-hour duration, EXCEPT for Immigration below.

2. Our other professional charges are based on the actual time spent on your case by the principal solicitor and other consultants or staff involved. This will include meetings with you and perhaps others; any time spent travelling; considering, preparing and working on documents; correspondence; making and receiving telephone calls.

3. Routine letters and / or emails we write and routine telephone calls we make and receive will be charged as units of 1/10th of an hour. Routine letters and / or emails received will be charged as units of 1/20th of an hour. Other letters, emails and calls will be charged on a time basis.

4. The current hourly rates are set out below, subject to VAT*, at the rate that applies when the work is done. At present VAT is 20%.

Principal Solicitor £301.00

Fee Earners £280.00

Trainee Solicitors £180.00

Caseworkers/Paralegals £140.00

Others ** £80.00

*when it becomes applicable **Admin etc

5. On the 1st of April each year we shall review the hourly rates to reflect increases in our overhead costs and inflation. We shall notify clients in writing if there is any likely increase in rates.

6. Meanwhile, we have pricing guidance in certain areas of expertise where hourly rates charging are likely to be unreasonable or not feasible, most especially in the practice areas: Employment law, Immigration & Asylum, Estate and Probate, Debt and Bankruptcy matters.

7. The fee ranges shown below are to give you an idea of our estimated charges for providing legal services to you in these specialised areas.

EMPLOYMENT LAW

8. Our range of fees, for bringing or defending claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal, are:

Simple Cases: £2,500 to £7,500 (excluding VAT), which will in most cases, normally include a one-day hearing.

Medium Complexity Cases: £7,500 to £20,000 (excluding VAT), which will normally include a hearing that takes up to three days.

High Complexity Cases: from £20,000 upward (excluding VAT), which will normally include a hearing that takes more than 3 days. There may be circumstances in which a claim requires an additional charge for attending a further Tribunal Hearing of £1500 per day (excluding VAT) - for example, where Preliminary Hearing is required.

We may also carry out work for large organisations based upon a Service Level Agreement. In such circumstances, our fee rates will be determined by the nature and scope of the tendered/agreed service.

Disbursement Costs

Disbursements are costs relating to your matter that are payable to third parties or in some cases, to ourselves. Such payment could also include our travelling expenses or Counsel / Barristers’ fees or expert reports. The fees excluding VAT could be in the range of £750 to £3,000 per day for simple and straightforward employment matters and between £3,000 and £12,000 per day, for medium and high complexity cases, depending on the level of experience and specialities of the barrister.

We shall always discuss the need and nature of such costs in ALL legal representations that is required before appointing a barrister. Fee rates include the cost of the barrister preparing for and attending Employment Tribunal Hearings.

Work Stages Involved

The fees set out above cover all of the work in relation to the following key stages of a claim:

Taking your initial instructions, reviewing the papers and advising you on merits and likely compensation
Preparing the claim/response
Reviewing and advising on the claim or response received from the other party
Exploring settlement and negotiating settlements through to agreement
Preparing or considering a schedule of loss
Preparing for (and, where necessary, attending) a Preliminary Hearing (case management or administrative hearing, to streamline issues)
Advising you on your disclosure obligations, exchanging documents with the other party and agreeing a bundle of documents to be used at the final hearing
Taking witness statements, drafting statements and agreeing a content with witnesses
Reviewing and advising on the other party’s witness statements
Agreeing a list of issues, agenda, chronology and/or cast list
Preparation and attendance at the final hearing, including preparing instructions to counsel
Advising you on the outcome of the hearing, and finalising matters for you (such as paying or receiving compensation, damages and/or considering appeals etc.)

The above set out stages are only as indication; may not all be necessary in some cases. Alternatively, one or more of the stages may result in significant additional work (for example if there is a dispute over the disclosure of documents, or if it is decided to seek a settlement by way of mediation) which will increase the fee