Tenant Eviction Cases – Fixed fee Stage I Notice (s) - We will prepare and serve either a section 8 notice or a section 21 notice or both on your tenant. We recommend that any outstanding repairs of which you have knowledge are dealt with prior to the service of notice as soon as possible in order to reduce the tenant's chance of submitting a successful defence and/or counterclaim should the matter progress to stage II of the eviction process. If you are relying on section 8 rent arrears grounds you should ensure that the arrears of rent you are claiming are genuine and fully accounted for. Errors regarding rent arrears can lead to disputes which can lead to a defence being filed by your tenant. A defence will invariably lead to any subsequent court possession hearing being adjourned thus leading to delays and extra legal fees being incurred by you for which you will remain liable. We will prepare notices only on the information that you provide us with and there is an assumption that all factual information which you provide us with is correct. We do not carry out an advisory review of your papers unless you specifically request us to do so and for which an extra fee will be payable and will be charged at our hourly rate. We will simply prepare whichever notice you have specifically requested us to do so and it will be prepared strictly on basis of the information which you have provided us with. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will not be held liable should the notice be deemed invalid by reason of reliance on incorrectly information provided by you. In the event that your claim becomes defended our fixed fee service will no longer apply.

Service is by first class post and first class recorded delivery. If you require service by personal hand delivery a process server fee will be applicable. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Eviction Cases - Fixed fee Stage 2 Court Proceedings - We will instruct our lawyers to prepare all the necessary court papers in order to commence the property possession claim in the county court strictly in accordance with your instructions. Therefore if you instruct us to commence an action based on a section 8 notice we shall do so. If you instruct us to commence an action based on a section 21 notice we shall do so. The fixed fee stage 2 service does not include advice in relation to which notice you should proceed under. If you instruct us to commence an action under a section 8 notice we shall not make any assumptions with regard to any other notice you may or may not have already served. Likewise if you instruct us in relation to a section 21 notice. If you need advice in relation to which notice is the most appropriate upon your specific matter facts then an extra fee will be payable in respect of that advice. We will liaise with the court and deal with all the court papers. We will arrange to prepare all necessary witness statements and will make arrangements to attend the first hearing on your behalf. Provided the court agrees that the landlord has grounds for possession the landlord will in most cases be entitled to a 14 day order for possession unless the judge takes the view that the tenant’s circumstances are such that possession should be delayed. Possession, if established on a mandatory ground, cannot be delayed for more than 42 days unless the ground for possession is discretionary. Unless we are seeking possession on an expired Section 21 Notice in isolation through either the traditional or accelerated procedure you should obtain an order for a fixed contribution towards your legal costs up to a maximum of £276.75. Regardless of the possession order we are seeking, any contribution awarded by the court is unlikely to match the total you have expended. Our Stage 2 fixed fee is limited to one court attendance. Should the court adjourn the hearing for whatever reason and require subsequent attendances a further fee will be required from you. Depending on the location of the court, a travel disbursement maybe added to the fixed fee. Our fixed fee services are not an advisory service. Instructions received from you are taken on the strict understanding that you are satisfied that all paper work that you submit with your instruction is checked and in order. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will not accept responsibility or liability if a process fails on account of defective documentation submitted by you. We recommend that any outstanding repairs of which you have knowledge are dealt with prior to the service of notice as soon as possible in order to reduce the tenant's chance of submitting a successful defence and/or counterclaim should the matter progress to stage 2 of the eviction process. If you are relying on rent arrears grounds you should ensure that the arrears of rent you are claiming are genuine and fully accounted for. Errors regarding rent arrears can lead to disputes which can lead to a defence being filed by your tenant. A defence will invariably lead to any subsequent court possession hearing being adjourned thus leading to delays and extra legal fees being incurred by you for which you will remain liable. In the event that a tenant defends the action or the matter is adjourned for whatever reason please see our section 'Defended claims'.

By instructing Tenant Eviction Lawyers you hereby agree and consent to Tenant Eviction Lawyers acting for the purpose of instructing our lawyers on your behalf and liaising with them in respect of all matters relating to your case. You hereby agree, consent and authorise our lawyers to liaise, pass, share, and divulge with Tenant Eviction Lawyers all information, correspondence and evidence in relation to your case. You hereby authorise Tenant Eviction Lawyers to authorise our lawyers to take instructions from Tenant Eviction Lawyers on your behalf in relation to all aspects of your claim. You will not be charged separately by our lawyers. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Fixed fee Accelerated Procedure - On your behalf we will instruct our lawyers to prepare all the necessary court papers in order to commence the property possession claim in the county court strictly in accordance with your instructions. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will liaise with the court and ensure that all the court formalities and further court paperwork is dealt with. The accelerated procedure is only applicable to section 21 notices and cannot/does not include a claim for any outstanding rent arrears. Generally the accelerated procedure takes between 3 and 6 weeks, however depending on which court has jurisdiction the process can in some cases take longer. The accelerated procedure generally does not require a hearing. The court will ordinarily decide the case in private and without the need for a hearing. If for whatever reason and in the rare event that the court requires the necessity for a hearing Tenant Eviction Lawyers will require a further payment of £150 to attend the hearing. In the alternative the landlord can attend the hearing in person and Tenant Eviction Lawyers will have no further involvement with your claim. In the event that the claim becomes defended please see our terms and conditions for defended claims below.

No Win, No Fee - This service is only available for actual possession proceedings. Only available once we have checked your potential claim and we have offered in writing to enter into a no win, no fee contract with you. We will only carryout any work once both parties have signed the “no win, no fee” contract. For avoidance of doubt, drafting and service of eviction notices is a legal requirement and there is nothing to win, or lose. we cannot and do not offer a no win, no fee service for eviction notices.

Defended Claims - In the event that your claim is defended by the tenant or other circumstances arise which are not covered by our fixed fee services, our charges are based upon the time we spend in dealing with your claim on your behalf and we will continue to defend your case. Anything that you can do to assist us in dealing with your case will minimise our potential charges. Time spent will include meetings with you (and maybe others); time spent traveling, considering, preparing and working on papers, correspondence, making and receiving telephone calls. All extra work will be charged out at £98 per hour and in units of 1/10th of an hour. In addition to time spent we may take into account any of the following factors, which could include: the complexity of the issues and the speed at which action must be taken. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will advise you that your case has been defended or adjourned and will seek your instruction before proceeding to with any further work. Your continued instruction will amount to acceptance of our terms and conditions and that you wish for us to continue to act on your behalf. You can however choose a solicitor of your choice and Tenant Eviction Lawyers will no longer act on your behalf. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will advise you of the probable cost of pursuing the defended case for you. Additional court fees may be required which will be payable by you. Advocates fees for attending hearings and traveling and waiting charges will be added. Whilst every effort is taken by Tenant Eviction Lawyers to ensure a successful conclusion to your case, due to the very nature of defended claims Tenant Eviction Lawyers can not offer any guarantees as to the outcome of your claim. Instructions received from you are taken on the strict understanding that you are satisfied that all the paper work that you have submitted is correct, checked and in order. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will not accept responsibility or liability if a process fails on account of defective documentation submitted by you. After completing the work, we are entitled to keep all of your papers and documents while there are fees owing to us for our charges and expenses. If you terminate your instructions or we stop acting for you with good reason, you will still have to pay our charges and expenses and our solicitors charges and expenses up to the date that we cease acting, including costs for removing our name our from the court record if court proceedings are involved and transferring our files to you or another lawyer. When a matter becomes defended you run the risk that if the defendant wins that you will become liable to pay all or part of their legal costs as well as ours. If your opponent has Community Legal Service Funding you are unlikely to be able to recover any of your costs from them. In any event even if you win the case the legal costs which you have to pay are likely to exceed the amount recoverable from the other party. If the tenancy agreement upon which you are relying does not reserve your right to claim legal costs from your tenant you will not be able to claim them and you will only be entitled to fixed costs regardless of your actual expended legal costs. Litigants in person if successful, the court can order the unsuccessful party to pay their costs provided that they can show that they have suffered financial loss in preparing for and attending the hearing. If you are unhappy with a court order for whatever reason you must inform us immediately within 12 days of the order being made. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will not be held liable for your failure to raise such issues after this time.

Before embarking upon litigation (and this includes possession actions based on section 8 and section 21 notices), you must give careful consideration as to whether the other party might have a defence (to all or part of your claim) or a counterclaim. Your potential liability for costs is twofold. Firstly your own legal costs and secondly the other party's, if they are successful against you, whether in whole or in part. If there are aspects of the case upon which you can co-operate with the other side you should do so to prevent the court applying costs sanctions against you. A full break down of the additional costs will be provided on request. Our lawyers maybe independent from Tenant Eviction Lawyers. By instructing Tenant Eviction Lawyers you hereby agree and consent to Tenant Eviction Lawyers instructing our lawyers and us liaising with them in respect of all matters relating to your claim. You hereby agree, consent and authorise our lawyers to liaise, pass, share, and divulge with Tenant Eviction Lawyers all information, correspondence and evidence in relation to your claim. You hereby authorise Tenant Eviction Lawyers to instruct our lawyers and hereby authorise our lawyers to take instructions from Tenant Eviction Lawyers on your behalf in relation to all aspects of your defended action. All further fees incurred by you in relation to your defended action will be payable to Tenant Eviction Lawyers. You will not be charged separately by our lawyers. You understand, accept and agree without reservation any lawyer, solicitor employed or instructed by us will in no way be personally liable for any errors mistakes. You accept and agree that tenant eviction lawyers alone will remain liable for errors mistakes and that you waive any right you may have in taking action against our lawyers and or solicitors on your behalf. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Eviction of Trespasser & Squatter - Tenant Eviction Lawyers will prepare all the necessary court papers and ensure that the papers are issued in the correct county court and that the issued papers are correctly served on your trespassers. We will liaise with the court and deal with all the court papers. We will prepare all necessary witness statements and will make arrangements to attend the first hearing on your behalf. Tenant Eviction Lawyers, with your instruction and payment, will appoint a bailiff to attend your land or property. It is sometimes more appropriate to instruct a High Court Sheriff Officer to attend the eviction. Tenant Eviction Lawyers will advise you whether this is appropriate. If a High Court Sheriff Officer is requested to attend your property they will charge an extra fee. This fee will have to be met by you. If the matter is defended please see our section 'Defended cases'. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Rent arrears claim - Before considering pursuing a claim for rent arrears, Tenant Eviction Lawyers will need to see the original or a true copy of the tenancy agreement. Tenant Eviction Lawyers and/or our solicitors reserves the right to claim all legal costs from the tenant, these maybe be significantly higher than our fixed fee charge for this service.

Payment of fees - We do not accept payments in cash in any form from anyone or organisation. We only accept payment by our secure online website payment system by an authorised debit/credit card, or where agreed in advance by cheque. Otherwise the bank may consider your payment as an example of money laundering which would delay us in our actions on your behalf. Payment online by you is deemed as authority for the payment for the completion of your specific service. Payment of fees in relation to Defended actions is strictly on the basis of 7 days from receipt of our invoice. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Cancellation of instruction - Tenant Eviction Lawyers will endeavour to commence your instructions within 48 hours of receipt of payment and relevant documentation. You have a right to cancel your instruction within 7 days of making payment. However, if work has already commenced on your case your right to cancel will end and you will remain liable for all costs to date. To cancel your instruction please email or fax to Tenant Eviction Lawyers at the contact details found on the ‘contact us’ page of this website.

Retention of documents - Original signed copies of documents created by Tenant Eviction Lawyers on behalf of a client remain the sole property of Tenant Eviction Lawyers. Copies are not distributed to clients. If a client requests such documents Tenant Eviction Lawyers reserves the right to refuse such a request or levy a charge of £55 per copy original signed document.

Our charges including other costs - All work where stated in this website (with the exception of defended cases and our consultancy service) is carried out on a fixed fee basis and includes disbursements. If a statement of service/certificate of service is required separately from one of our fixed fee services an additional charge of £55 will be charged.

Our Complaints Procedure - Tenant Eviction Lawyers are committed to providing you with a quality service. We ensure that our procedure is consistently followed by all of our employee’s and we are consistently looking to improve the quality of our service. If however, you have any queries or concerns about our work then it is important for you to raise them immediately in writing by E-mail or fax and in the first instance with the member of staff involved. Do not wait until the completion of a matter to raise a problem which occurred at a much earlier stage. If that does not resolve the problem or you would prefer to speak to someone else then please make this clear. Following receipt of a written complaint, we will endeavour to respond to it in writing within 28 days of receipt. We will attempt to resolve problems and or complaints in-house. It is therefore important that if at any time you feel that quality is not being maintained please raise it the moment you feel that an issue has arisen. If you have a complaint about any aspect of our services or the way in which they are being delivered to you, you must raise it the moment it arises. To continue to instruct Tenant Eviction Lawyers after you later rely on a complaint which should have been raised earlier, it will be taken as evidence that a genuine complaint has not arisen. If you raise a complaint at the end of a matter which should have been raised much earlier and you continue to instruct Tenant Eviction Lawyers putting them to expense in terms of both time and disbursements after the date the complaint should have been raised you will remain liable for our costs in their entirety. We value your instructions and would not wish you to think that you have reason to be unhappy with us. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Contractual obligation - All services provided by Tenant Eviction Lawyers on this website and requested by an individual or organisation will only form a binding agreement upon confirmation by Tenant Eviction Lawyers. Such confirmation will take the form of an E-mail, fax, or postal correspondence. That you understand that your continued instructions in any matter which we act on your behalf will amount to your full acceptance of these terms and conditions of business and that you fully understand that you may not be able to recover the full legal costs but nevertheless wish to instruct Tenant Eviction Lawyers to proceed in your required service and agree to compensate tenant Eviction Lawyers against any liabilities incurred by them in acting for you.

General - The information conveyed on the Tenant Eviction Lawyers website is intended to convey general information only. The contents of the website are not aimed at any person, individual or organisation specifically and nothing contained within it constitutes an offer to contract. Tenant Eviction Lawyers reserve the right to cancel, withdraw or change its services at any time. If you terminate your instructions or we stop acting for you with good reason, you will still have to pay our charges and expenses up to the date that we cease acting, including costs for removing our name our solicitors name from the court record if court proceedings are involved and transferring our files to you or another advisor. Tenant eviction lawyers are not regulated by the law society. They do not call or purport to be solicitors. In event of a valid complaint or a claim you are entitled to take action against Tenant eviction lawyers limited. You accept and agree you are not entitled never the less as an alternative you waive any right to take action against tenant eviction lawyers staff, senior management or tenant eviction lawyers, lawyers or solicitors whether they are employed by tenant eviction lawyers or instructed by them to act as agent directly indirectly or in part for you. For avoidance of doubt, you agree you can only bring a complaint or a claim against tenant eviction lawyers limited them and them alone. Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms & conditions.

Terms and conditions - You accept and agree without reservation anything said orally or in an E-mail by tenant eviction lawyers which directly contradicts these terms and conditions that these terms and condition shall apply alone. Payment by you for any of the services offered by Tenant Eviction Lawyers is deemed acceptance by you that you have read and understood our terms and conditions and that you fully understand and accept them. Alternatively where you instruct Tenant Eviction Lawyers prior to payment, receipt of your instruction is deemed acceptance by you that you have read and understood our terms and conditions and that you fully understand and accept them. Your continuing instructions will amount to your continued acceptance of our terms and conditions.   <Click Here to go back to Home page>