International Family Law Chambers

Getting Legal Advice

Please use the Enquiry Form if you have a question. Download, print and then send us the completed form (and any relevant documents) by email, fax, post or DX with your cheque for £500 on account (the minimum advice fee), plus Value Added Tax of £87.50 if you are resident in the UK or another European Union country.

No charge is made for preliminary enquiries and costs estimates are always given before legal advice is provided.

The Enquiry Form asks the name of the person making the enquiry and, if different, the name of the person on whose behalf the enquiry is made. We must also have the name of the other party or parties in order to carry out a conflict check.

If we cannot answer your enquiry we will advise you and return any payment made by you on account. If you want us to telephone or fax our response please ensure the number given is private. Our response will be given only to the person making the enquiry - confidentiality precludes us from discussing your enquiry with any other person without written instructions to do so.

The minimum charge for providing legal advice in response to an enquiry is £500.00 plus UK VAT of 17.5 percent, a total of £587.50. The charge covers administrative expenses incurred in carrying out a conflict of interests check and opening a new file as well as the time charge of at least one of our senior lawyers. Sometimes more than one lawyer will work on answering your enquiry.

If answering your enquiry is likely to be more expensive than the minimum fee of £500.00 plus VAT we will provide you with as much help as we can within budget and let you have an estimate of the likely cost of any further work which needs to be done. You can then decide if you wish to instruct us further.

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