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Photiades Solicitors Ltd

01727833134

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2.0/5
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Photiades Solicitors Ltd

How Photiades Solicitors Ltd Compares

Value for money

This firm - 51%
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Yes 22%
No 78%

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outcome of matter

This firm - 33%
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Yes 33%
No 67%

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Rankings by area of expertise

The rankings below show the areas of expertise that Photiades Solicitors Ltd offers to clients. You can see how good the service offered is in comparison to all other law firms nationally.

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Nationally

Consumer
2nd / 5
1680th / 4662
Company & Commercial
3rd / 7
1399th / 4424
Housing & Property
5th / 9
1483rd / 4270
Family Law
8th / 11
1901st / 3864
Wills, Trusts & Probate
6th / 9
1632nd / 3533
Commercial Property
5th / 8
1455th / 3351
Employment
2nd / 5
1291st / 3128
Regulations
2nd / 5
843rd / 2608
Money & Tax
2nd / 2
838th / 1854

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  • Poor

    1

  • Awful

    6

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Judith

Judith

March 04, 2024

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Very Slow communication

I haven't finished the process, but I haven't heard from my solicitor for 6 weeks. I made a complaint to the Senior Partner last week but still haven't even had an acknowledgement of my email.
I am seriously considering changing firms as it feels this would be a faster way to get things done despite having to pretty much start from scratch. Initially response times were excellent, however, I don't think any contact was made with the other party for several weeks. Since then, communication has been minimal. We have had one meeting and barely had a word since and it's been more than 6 weeks with me emailing twice a week and calling once a week. The only time she picked up the phone was when she was on annual leave and the office was accidentally forwarded to her mobile. She works remotely and apparently no-one else can help me or touch her cases. So frustrating. The chain is at risk of collapse.

AVOID

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Joe
Housing & Property

Matter Type:

Residential Conveyancing

Joe

September 28, 2023

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House purchase

Terrible. Slow,slow,slow. Poor communication, unwilling or unable to help. Blamed everyone else. Thought she knew everything but apparently didn’t.
Save yourself a heap of stress - avoid.

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Akthar

Akthar

March 24, 2023

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If you have serious property issues I recommend stuart @ photades

Have been using stuart at photades for last 15 years as I'm a seasonal auction buyer. I never left reviews although I have very good experience with the company and stuart in particular. Last auction property I bought was very complex as it was unregistered property however stuart as usual has been very good at dealing with all problems. Very experienced conyencer will recommend people to use him specially if you brought property's at auction and difficult property dealing.

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Agata
Housing & Property

Matter Type:

Residential Conveyancing

Agata

July 11, 2022

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Avoid

Very poor communication, we were waiting for days and sometimes weeks to get any response to emails and voicemails. Clearly their case load is far higher than they have resources to accommodate.
We were prepared for delays, as they always tend to happen when buying or selling a house, but Photiades exceeded our expectations. We had to chase for every thing. Some aspects that we explicitly pointed out at the beginning of the process have been attended to only 3 months later. Queries from our buyers were forwarded to us with 1-2 weeks delay. Everything took ages, but what's worse, nothing was communicated to us, phones were not picked up, emails not answered, all we could do was to ring, write and sit and wait and see more and more deadlines being not met. At some point it seem the whole sale may not go through, simply because of the slowness of the process. Extremely stressful, and unnecessarily so. If it has to take that long, so be it, but at least talk to us.
At the end, the funds from our house sale were withheld for a month, causing us serious inconvenience, again no communication with Photiades, until we said we'll take it to the small claims court and report them to the law council. Case magically resolved within minutes.
Bottom line: avoid, even if they offered their services for free!

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Zenobia

Zenobia

October 11, 2020

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House Boundary dispute resolved

Dealt with Simon Foxcroft from Photiades Solicitors in St Albans Herts for a house boundary dispute with new neighbours.
He was very knowledgeable, professional, courteous and efficient. He was also friendly and a pleasure to deal with. We communicated with each other mostly by email.
We were very pleased with his efforts, empathy, advice, understanding and support in resolving the matter over a period of 4 months. He was also very meticulous and articulate in his calls/letters/emails.
It all finally resulted in an amicable resolution between both parties, after several letters and then a site visit with us and the other party concerned. He finally complied a boundary agreement which was drawn up by him to send off to Land Registry.
We highly recommend him.
Thank you so much Simon for everything. It was a very stressful time.
Ps - The accounts dept could’ve been more organised and efficient when settling payments by phone.

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Farhad
Company & Commercial

Matter Type:

Setting up a business

Farhad

July 11, 2020

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Very poor

Unlawful charged
Invoice incomplete
Initially started ok
Agreed verbally for an approximate price
Sale did not go through
But was still charged in spite of asking solicitor to confirm with seller solicitor about solicitor payment

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Richard
Housing & Property

Matter Type:

Purchase and Sale

Richard

December 02, 2016

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Photiades disappointing

I am extremely disappointed with the service provided by Photiades whom I used to buy and sell a property and purchase some land. They failed to tell me when I appointed them that my dedicated solicitor worked 3 days a week and approx 35 weeks a year. They failed to provide mewith a point of contact in his absence and when I did find a contact (Will Harvey - company director) he failed on numerous occasions to even reply to my emails leaving me to feel very unimportant. When my conveyances did go through they put it through at the wrong purchase price leaving me to pay a higher stamp duty and also failed to pay me the chattels monies until I queried both. As a company I found Photiades poor in communicating with me effectively and strongly recommend against using them.

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  • Consumer
    • Litigation - Breach of contract
    • Litigation - Insurance disputes
    • Litigation - M&A and warranty disputes
    • Litigation - Product liability claims
    • Litigation - Property litigation claims
    • Litigation - Trust and pension issues
    • Litigation Law
  • Employment
    • Agency Staff / Temp Workers
    • Constructive/Unfair Dismissal
    • Disciplinary Hearings
    • Discrimination at Work
    • Employee Team Moves
    • Employment Contracts
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    • Family Leave
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    • Gardening Leave
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    • Holiday Pay Issues
    • Maternity and Paternity
    • Part Time Workers
    • Pension Law
    • Privacy and Data Protection
    • Professional Discipline
    • Redundancy
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    • Senior Executives
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  • Family Law
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    • Asset protection and tax mitigation
    • Civil Partnership Dissolution
    • Civil partnerships
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    • Cohabitation and Unmarried Relationships
    • Collaborative Law
    • Divorce After A Brain Or Other Serious Injury
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    • Family Mediation
    • Family law
    • Financial Matters
    • Grandparents' Rights
    • Inheritance Act claims
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    • Matrimonial finance
    • Out Of Court Divorce
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  • Housing & Property
    • Anti-social Behaviour
    • Boundary Disputes
    • Buying at auction
    • Declarations of trusts
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    • Deeds of easements, variation, deeds of rectifications
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    • Exclusivity and lock-out agreements
    • Extending your Lease
    • Freehold Enfranchisement
    • Housing Associations
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    • Housing disputes
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    • Investment and buy to let properties
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    • Matrimonial transfers
    • New home purchases and sales
    • Option agreements and conditional contracts
    • Possession and repossession proceedings
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    • Purchase and Sale
    • Remortgaging
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    • Repossessions
    • Residential Conveyancing
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    • Service Charge Disputes
    • Service Charge Recovery
    • Tenancy Breaches, Injunctions and Forfeiture Claims
    • Tenant Eviction
    • Transfer of title
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    • Transfers of parts of land
    • Unpaid Rent, Service or Ground Charges
  • Money & Tax
    • Debt and Bankruptcy
  • Wills, Trusts & Probate
    • Probate
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  • Commercial Property
    • Commercial Leases
    • Commercial mortgages
    • Developer disputes
    • Development plot sales
    • Environmental policy law
    • Finance
    • Investment purchases and Buy to Let
    • Landlord and tenant
    • Purchase and Sale Of Commercial Property
    • Purchase of development land
    • Rights of way issues
    • Sales or purchases of shops, factories, warehouses, offices and licensed premises
  • Company & Commercial
    • Agency agreements
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
    • Asset Tracing
    • Business structures and joint ventures
    • Commercial Law
    • Commercial Litigation Matters
    • Competition law
    • Contractual Disputes
    • Corporate Law
    • Corporate finance
    • Credit Control
    • Data Protection
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    • Employment - business
    • Franchising
    • Management buyouts
    • Merchandising and sponsorship
    • Mis-sold Interest Rate Swap Agreements
    • Partnership and LLP law
    • Sales and Purchases
    • Setting up a business
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    • Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
    • Statutory Demands
    • Summary Judgment
    • Unfair Loan Charges
  • Regulations
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