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Eccles Heddon Solicitors Limited

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5.0/5
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As an established legal practice, we enjoy strong working relationships with the people of Ripon, Thirsk, and Bedale, the surrounding areas of North Yorkshire and beyond. Our practitioners will bring to your assistance experience gained over many years after qualification in a wide range of areas some of which may be unfamiliar or surprising to you. Read more...

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Eccles Heddon Solicitors Limited
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Eccles Heddon Solicitors Limited
have 2 other locations

5 Westgate
Ripon
HG4 2AT

24a Market Place
Thirsk
YO7 1LB

5 Westgate
Ripon
HG4 2AT

24a Market Place
Thirsk
YO7 1LB

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Available lawyers at Eccles Heddon Solicitors Limited

Louisa Muggeridge

4.9 out of 5
(10)
Solicitor

Annabel Ashford

5.0 out of 5
(9)
Trainee Solicitor

Angela Thompson

4.8 out of 5
(4)
Licensed Conveyancer

Hollie Burne

4.8 out of 5
(4)
Solicitor

Lizzy Mills

5.0 out of 5
(4)
Solicitor

Nick White

5.0 out of 5
(3)
Solicitor

Rajinder Richards

5.0 out of 5
(3)
Solicitor

Tom Craven

5.0 out of 5
(3)
Solicitor

Claire Green

5.0 out of 5
(2)
Solicitor

David Shackleton

5.0 out of 5
(2)
Solicitor

Elizabeth Kidd

5.0 out of 5
(2)
Solicitor

Alison Johnson

5.0 out of 5
(1)
Chartered Legal Executive

Joanna Magrs

5.0 out of 5
(1)
Trainee Solicitor

Elizabeth Balmforth

0.0 out of 5
(0)
Solicitor

Joanna Turchet TEP

0.0 out of 5
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Private Client Lawyer

Michael Briggs

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Trainee Solicitor

How Eccles Heddon Solicitors Limited Compares

Value for money

This firm - 97%
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  • 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 2%
Overpriced 4%
About Right 93%

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Would recommend to
friends and family

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

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"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 100%
No 0%

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outcome of matter

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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 100%
No 0%

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Rankings by area of expertise

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

Locally

Nationally

Consumer
1st / 1
358th / 4662
Company & Commercial
1st / 1
353rd / 4424
Housing & Property
1st / 1
142nd / 4270
Family Law
1st / 1
423rd / 3864
Wills, Trusts & Probate
1st / 1
278th / 3533
Commercial Property
1st / 1
252nd / 3351
Money & Tax
1st / 1
247th / 1854
Agriculture
1st / 1
113th / 597
Construction
1st / 1
105th / 581
Energy & Transport
1st / 3
53rd / 528

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

5.0/5

Reviews summary

  • Excellent

    218

  • Very Good

    8

  • Average

    0

  • Poor

    0

  • Awful

    0

Overall experience

  • Value For Money
  • Communication
  • Initial Impressions
  • Approachability
  • Documentation Accuracy
  • Legal knowledge
Jane

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November 20, 2024

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Incredibly professional and efficient.

Annabel dealt with the provision of our complicated wills and powers of attorney in a very sensitive and professional manner. She really sorted every detail, made sure we fully understood every part of the whole complicated matter and held our hands throughout the whole process. We would highly recommend both Annabel and Eccles Heddon Solicitors - they have been with us through "thick and thin" for the last 30 years and have always sorted us out whatever the problem. Thank you all.

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Ian

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Ian

November 19, 2024

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Sale & Purchase of property

The best solicitors that we have used for house moves.

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Keith & Christine Riley
Family Law

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Family law

Keith & Christine Riley

August 09, 2024

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Recovery of Heirloom Photo Albums

Having no experience of modern solicitor methods of work I had expected an interview at the very beginning to answer all your questions and to see the person who is representing me, although I did have a thumbnail photo on the first letter. This would have saved many many emails.
Although after 3 months I did retrieve my wife and my albums one dating back 80 years from our errant daughter minus 600 out of a total 2,600 photos. I had also expected advice on a more robust demand to retrieve the missing 600 without breaking the bank.
However! Hollie was polite & professional.
Keith & Christine Riley

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Laura
Family Law

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Matter Type:

Cohabitation agreements and disputes

Laura

July 29, 2024

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Excellent service

Hollie helped me with a cohabitation agreement. Everything was so professional and efficient. Hollie made a difficult and confusing thing really simple and easy.

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Neil
Wills, Trusts & Probate

Matter Type:

Trusts

Neil

June 28, 2024

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Professional, efficient and effective service

Annabel provided a very efficient and effective service for the administration of a discretionary trust matter. The particular legal work required is not often implemented but the outcome was fully accomplished. Would certainly refer to Eccles Heddon and Annabel in the future, if required.

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PETER B
Housing & Property

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Possession and repossession proceedings

PETER B

June 27, 2024

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Certainly would use Hollie again.

I used Hollies' services to gain possession of a property. The Tenant was in receipt of Universal Credit, but did not pay the rent element to me as the Landlord. The local Council was no help at all.
Hollie kept me informed at each stage, she explained clearly what was happening.

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Catherine
Wills, Trusts & Probate

Matter Type:

Wills

Catherine

January 25, 2024

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Revisions to my will

I have recently made a couple of changes to my will and am happy to entrust this work to Lizzy Mills at the Bedale office.

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Phil
Housing & Property

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Residential Conveyancing

Phil

August 21, 2023

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Excellent, professional and friendly.

Fantastic service from all at Eccles Heddon handling the sale and purchase of my property. Clear information from the beginning, regular updates and a friendly and personal approach. Would highly recommend. We encountered several issues in the process but nothing was too much trouble.

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Chris
Housing & Property

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Residential Conveyancing

Chris

August 15, 2023

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Property Sale

As attorneys, we were charged with selling our Mother's home on her behalf, after her move to a care home. This was a difficult time for us, especially as we were selling our childhood home. With her calm, professional manner, Angela guided us through the whole process until completion, making an onerous task as easy as possible.

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David
Wills, Trusts & Probate

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Wills

David

July 20, 2023

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Prompt and helpful

I was helped by Annabel Ashford to remake my will after the death of my wife. She was very helpful and efficient, and not only provided the new will but also sorted out the registration of my house. I should certainly recommend Annabel and Eccles Heddon.

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Jan
Wills, Trusts & Probate

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Probate

Jan

February 10, 2023

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Jan

Everything I asked to be done was done. Especially revoking a previous POA. Claire Green was exceptionally proficient, who dealt with everything via meeting on Teams, as I now live outside the area.
I chose Eccles Heddon to deal with my legal matters as they are efficient, competitive and transparent in their charges. I recommend them and if I ever need a solicitor in the future will contact them first and foremost.

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Andrew
Housing & Property

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Residential Conveyancing

Andrew

July 06, 2022

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Andrew

Carol Wood has been fantastic 👌 highly recommended

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Cheryl
Housing & Property

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Residential Conveyancing

Cheryl

October 08, 2021

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Cheryl

Very friendly and helpful x

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Toby

Toby

August 15, 2021

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Toby

We were very pleased to be very ably supported by Oliver Riley, Partner at Eccles Heddon in Thirsk, with a property purchase and two property sales in recent months. Oliver was outstanding. The sales were complex and the purchase had its moments! Oliver went over and above to ensure everything proceeded smoothly. We had a particular issue with our mortgage company's legal representatives and Oliver cut through it in no time, taking over the conveyancing for the mortgage company at our request and ensuring we were able to complete in time. He did this despite being incredibly busy and we can't thank him enough! Oliver Riley was professional, patient and gave us such a sense of confidence. We have used different solicitors and conveyancers over the years but from now on will always think of Oliver as 'our' solicitor and will use Eccles Heddon

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Our legal expertise is applied in conjunction with a pragmatic realism acquired over many years of practice in the Vale of York and against a culture of long term commitment, not short term self-interested gain. Most of our practitioners have been with the firm for many years and, in our experience, many of our clients value continuity of individual service very highly. ​Whilst a large proportion of our clients live or work within the middle part of North Yorkshire we do advise and act for many people in other parts of Great Britain and indeed throughout the World. England and Wales comprise a single legal jurisdiction and we are qualified to act in domestic matters from anywhere between Berwick on Tweed to Penzance. We do not normally deal with foreign legal matters except in cases where the estate of a deceased person includes property overseas. Although we do not approve of the practice, our regulatory bodies now allow solicitors to give or receive so-called ‘referral fees’. These are payments to or from third parties in consideration of the referral of client business. Examples of this practice include solicitors paying estate agents in return for recommendation of people buying and selling houses or receiving benefits from financial advisers as a bonus for referring clients perceived as needing their advice. Until quite recently such practices were outlawed as likely to compromise the strict independence that was always regarded as the hallmark of a solicitor’s professional duty. Although the rules in this area have been relaxed, we still hold to the view that payment or receipt of referral fees is not in the public interest and therefore we do not participate in the practice. We prefer to retain and expand our client base on the foundation of client satisfaction and personal recommendation not the payment of ‘bungs’ to third parties. Equally, we will recommend other professionals solely on the basis of our judgment of their ability and not as the result of any undue influence arising from monetary benefit.

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Personal areas of law

  • Consumer
    • Consumer Disputes
    • Consumer Rights
    • 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
    • Travel rights
  • Family Law
    • Asset protection and tax mitigation
    • Child Arrangements Following Divorce
    • Child Law
    • Child Relocation After Divorce
    • Child contact
    • Children
    • Children Act proceedings
    • Civil Partnership Dissolution
    • Civil partnerships
    • Cohabitation agreements and disputes
    • Cohabitation and Unmarried Relationships
    • Collaborative Law
    • Divorce After A Brain Or Other Serious Injury
    • Domestic Abuse
    • Family Mediation
    • Family law
    • Financial Matters
    • Grandparents' Rights
    • Inheritance Act claims
    • Injunctions
    • Matrimonial finance
    • Out Of Court Divorce
    • Parental responsibility, paternity disputes, surrogacy
    • Pension and property advice
    • Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements
    • Separation
    • Separation Agreement
    • Unmarried Couples' Rights
  • Housing & Property
    • Boundary Disputes
    • Buying at auction
    • Declarations of trusts
    • Deeds of Gifts
    • Deeds of easements, variation, deeds of rectifications
    • Dilapidation Claims
    • Evicting Squatters and Trespassers
    • 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
    • Neighbour Disputes
    • 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
    • Second charges
    • 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
  • Money & Tax
    • Inheritance Tax
    • Insolvency and bankruptcy
    • Property Holding Structures
    • Tax
    • Trusts
  • Wills, Trusts & Probate
    • Probate
    • Trusts
    • Wills

Business areas of law

  • Agriculture
    • Agricultural land for sale or development
    • Buying and selling a farm
    • Commercial contracts for farming businesses
    • Equestrian property
    • Farm partnerships and corporate structures
    • Farming disputes
  • Commercial Property
    • Commercial Leases
    • Commercial mortgages
    • Developer disputes
    • Development plot sales
    • 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
    • Business structures and joint ventures
    • Commercial Law
    • Commercial Litigation Matters
    • Contract law
    • Contractual Disputes
    • Corporate Law
    • Debt Recovery
    • Franchising
    • Management buyouts
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Partnership and LLP law
    • Sales and Purchases
    • Setting up a business
    • Share option schemes
    • Shareholder Agreements
    • Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
    • Small businesses
    • Statutory Demands
    • Summary Judgment
  • Construction
    • Development agreements
    • Development loan facilities
  • Energy & Transport
    • Energy
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