We are a six-person firm that does adoption law and almost nothing else. In eleven years we have taken 340 families through it — including the ones two other solicitors had already turned down.
Every one of these started with somebody being told the answer was probably no. Names changed, details invented for this demo — the shape of each case is the part that matters.
One to three questions — the path depends on your answers — and you will know which body of law applies to you, roughly how long it takes and what it costs. No email required, nothing saved.
Two hours of reading, free. If we think you do not need a solicitor, we will say so and tell you what to do instead. That happens perhaps once a month.
No handing your case to a paralegal after the first meeting. The person you meet is the person who stands up in court.
We quote the whole route, not an hourly rate that grows quietly. If the case turns into something else, we requote before doing the work — never after.
Most delay in adoption is administrative silence. We call the local authority every week and log it. Families tell us this is the part that mattered most.
After every hearing you get one page: what happened, what it means, what happens next. No “further to my letter of the 14th”.
We do not do divorce, conveyancing or wills. If you need those, we will name three firms that do them properly.
Small on purpose. Every solicitor here left a bigger firm to stop doing four kinds of law at once.
Nineteen years in family law, eleven of them only adoption. Sits on two regional adoption panels.
Handles the two-country cases. Speaks Portuguese and French, which has saved more deadlines than any legal argument.
Former local-authority lawyer. Knows exactly which internal deadline is being missed and who to ring about it.
Does the searches nobody wants to do — tracing birth parents so the court can decide about consent properly.
Half an hour, no obligation, and at the end of it you will know whether you have a case and what it would cost. Most people ring after being told no somewhere else.
Built by AirWeb as a demonstration. Another language adds 30%.