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Valentine Duggins Solicitors

01516384844
4.5/5
6 Client Reviews Leave a review

Since Valentine Duggins founded the practice in 1994, he has prided himself on recruiting the right staff. A team is in place that offers a specialised and efficient service, with reasonable fees attached. For the highest quality of service come over to our office for a friendly chat with one of our team, or give us a call and we can arrange a consultation at a time convenient to you. We deal with clients all over the UK and abroad, so we have experience with dealing with many variations of clients and situations. Whatever you require our services for, we can help you. Read more...

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Valentine Duggins Solicitors
Valentine Duggins Solicitors

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Marc Michael Hartnell

3.5 out of 5
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How Valentine Duggins Solicitors Compares

Value for money

This firm - 89%
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Excellent does not necessarily mean ‘cheap’. It means that clients thought that the level of service received was Excellent for what they paid.

This score has been calculated using up to the last 300 reviews left by clients of Valentine Duggins Solicitors on ReviewSolicitors.

As part of our review questionnaire we ask reviewer questions about the value for money they felt they received by using Valentine Duggins Solicitors. These questions include:

  • Value for money (a rating of 1-5)
  • How much were you initially quoted or how much did you expect to pay?
  • Approximately how much did you end up spending for the legal services provided (ignoring disbursements and court fees)
  • Did you think this was underpriced, overpriced or about right?
  • Overall experience

We use data science to amalgamate the answers to these questions and create a ‘ReviewSolicitors score’ out of 100. The above chart representation score is a simple percentage representation of the averaged score across those who have reviewed this law firm.

Underpriced 11%
Overpriced 11%
About Right 77%

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Would recommend to
friends and family

This firm - 83%
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ReviewSolicitors uses our community data to show you how many clients used Valentine Duggins Solicitors and have had a satisfactory experience where they have indicated that they would recommend the services of the law firm to their friends and family.

You can use this data to see how Valentine Duggins Solicitors performs against other law firms nationally. A score close to 100% indicates that this firm is highly valued by their clients.

As part of our review questionnaire we ask the question:

"Would you recommend this firm to somebody else?"

The reviewer can select either “Yes” or “No”.

The above score is a simple percentage representation of the total amount of clients who selected the “Yes” option:

Yes 83%
No 17%

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outcome of matter

This firm - 83%
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You can use this data to see how Valentine Duggins Solicitors compares to the national average of clients being satisfied with the outcome of their matter after instructing a solicitor.

As part of our review questionnaire we ask the question:

"Were you satisfied with the outcome of your case?"

The reviewer can select either “Yes” or “No”.

The above score is a simple percentage representation of the total amount of clients who selected the “Yes” option:

Yes 83%
No 17%

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Rankings by area of expertise

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

Locally

Nationally

Company & Commercial
2nd / 4
1419th / 4426
Housing & Property
4th / 5
1770th / 4272
Family Law
4th / 5
1556th / 3864
Wills, Trusts & Probate
2nd / 5
1095th / 3536
Commercial Property
2nd / 6
721st / 3354
Regulations
1st / 2
753rd / 2610

Data shown above is based on the reviews and client feedback collected by ReviewSolicitors over the last 12 months.

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Client Reviews

4.5/5

Reviews summary

  • Excellent

    5

  • Very Good

    0

  • Average

    0

  • Poor

    1

  • Awful

    0

Overall experience

  • Value For Money
  • Communication
  • Initial Impressions
  • Approachability
  • Documentation Accuracy
  • Legal knowledge
Richard
Wills, Trusts & Probate

Matter Type:

Probate

Richard

December 20, 2023

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Executing a will

After our elderly relative died we contacted the solicitor (Marc Hartnell) about executing the will. The 2 executors were his wife (now deceased) and Mr Valentine Duggins (now retired) so we requested a renunciation so we could administer ourselves. The fees quoted by the solicitor (3%) seems excessive for executing a simple will. After initially agreeing the solicitor changed his mind and refused the renunciation. We persisted, with the help of a family friend, a retired probate solicitor, and eventually obtained the renunciation, after paying a large sum for very little work. Only when a retired solicitor, Mr Ray Mann, was reintroduced to the practice, did we achieve any progress.

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Denise
Commercial Property

Matter Type:

Rights of way issues

Denise

September 10, 2023

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Support Regarding Property Issue

My family have recently used the services of this company.
We were impressed with how prompt, knowledgeable and efficient they were in dealing with our issues.
I would have no hesitation in recommending this company to family and friends in the future.

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Patsy
Commercial Property

Matter Type:

Commercial mortgages

Patsy

March 14, 2023

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Excellent service!

Martin Meadows was incredibly helpful throughout the whole process of buying my house. He was always available to answer any queries and was very easy to get in contact with. Martin explained everything very clearly and made the process stress-free. I would recommend Valentine Duggins Solictors to anyone!

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Tom
Housing & Property

Matter Type:

Residential Conveyancing

Tom

April 07, 2021

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Great service for many years

I have been dealing with Valentine Duggins for more than ten years and have had nothing less than great service from the whole team in all of that time. Very open and honest regarding fees, as well as being reasonably priced. Can't recommend this friendly company highly enough.

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Legal services

Personal areas of law

  • Housing & Property
    • Anti-social Behaviour
    • Boundary Disputes
    • Buying at auction
    • Declarations of trusts
    • Deeds of Gifts
    • Deeds of easements, variation, deeds of rectifications
    • Dilapidation Claims
    • Evicting Squatters and Trespassers
    • Exclusivity and lock-out agreements
    • Extending your Lease
    • Freehold Enfranchisement
    • Housing Associations
    • Housing Management
    • Housing disputes
    • Injunctions
    • Investment and buy to let properties
    • Landlord and Tenant
    • Lease Extensions
    • Leasehold properties
    • Matrimonial transfers
    • New home purchases and sales
    • Option agreements and conditional contracts
    • Possession and repossession proceedings
    • Property Disputes
    • Purchase and Sale
    • Remortgaging
    • Renting and Tenancy Agreements
    • Repossessions
    • Residential Conveyancing
    • Restrictive Covenants, Easements and Wayleaves
    • Right of First Refusal
    • Right of Way and Rights to Light
    • Right to Manage
    • Service Charge Disputes
    • Service Charge Recovery
    • Tenancy Breaches, Injunctions and Forfeiture Claims
    • Tenant Eviction
    • Transfer of title
    • Transfers of equity
    • Transfers of parts of land
    • Unpaid Rent, Service or Ground Charges
  • Wills, Trusts & Probate
    • Disputed Probate
    • Disputed Trusts
    • Disputed Wills
    • Probate
    • Trusts
    • Wills

Business areas of law

  • 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 Litigation Matters
    • Competition law
    • Contractual Disputes
    • Corporate Law
    • Corporate finance
    • Data Protection
    • Franchising
    • Management buyouts
    • Merchandising and sponsorship
    • Mis-sold Interest Rate Swap Agreements
    • Partnership and LLP law
    • Sales and Purchases
    • Setting up a business
    • Share option schemes
    • Shareholder Agreements
    • Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
    • Statutory Demands
    • Summary Judgment
    • Unfair Loan Charges
  • Regulations
    • Health and Safety
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