Irwin Mitchell LLP

01243786111

At Irwin Mitchell, we pride ourselves in understanding people. We understand that everybody's situation is different, be it business or personal.

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Thomas Eggar House
Friary Lane
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1UF
01243786111
www.irwinmitchell.com

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How Irwin Mitchell LLP Compares

Value for money

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This firm - 90%

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This score has been calculated using up to the last 300 reviews left by clients of Irwin Mitchell LLP on ReviewSolicitors.

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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.

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Satisfied with
outcome of matter

This firm - 88%

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ReviewSolicitors uses our community data to show you how many clients used Irwin Mitchell LLP and were satisfied with the outcome of their matter. Being satisfied with the outcome of your matter is an important consideration to have in mind.

You can use this data to see how Irwin Mitchell LLP 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 88%

No 12%

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Rankings by area of expertise

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

Consumer

1st / 14

121st / 4564

Company & Commercial

1st / 12

135th / 4349

Housing & Property

1st / 10

537th / 4234

Family Law

1st / 14

346th / 3838

Wills, Trusts & Probate

1st / 13

343rd / 3493

Commercial Property

1st / 14

169th / 3302

Employment

1st / 7

141st / 3089

Regulations

1st / 10

46th / 2554

Personal Injury

1st / 13

141st / 2360

Crime/ Criminal Defence

1st / 5

95th / 2099

Immigration

1st / 4

106th / 2003

Money & Tax

1st / 10

66th / 1838

Professional Negligence

1st / 8

52nd / 1191

IT & Intellectual Property

1st / 6

30th / 1055

Dispute Resolution

1st / 5

79th / 1034

Clinical Negligence

1st / 8

65th / 938

Welfare & Benefits

1st / 5

43rd / 819

Human rights

1st / 2

13th / 747

Notary

1st / 2

31st / 713

Banking

1st / 6

18th / 699

Agriculture

1st / 2

66th / 601

Construction

1st / 4

30th / 582

Charities

1st / 3

31st / 563

Energy & Transport

1st / 3

12th / 516

Education

1st / 2

20th / 264

Actions against the police

1st / 1

12th / 80

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

Review Sources

Client Reviews

4.5/5

Reviews summary

Excellent

10920
Very Good

663
Average

158
Poor

140
Awful

869

Overall experience

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Mark

March 19, 2025

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Very poor service.

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Irwin Mitchell took three years and charged many thousands of pounds to assemble a case for deputyship that failed.

They made many failures and their own complaints procedure (after a few snide insults) agreed to pay me back a portion of those fees.

Following this I appealed by myself, costing me nothing except a few hours work. In a 10 minute conversation I changed the mind of the judge who ruled against deputyship.

It's much harder to to change someone's mind. Irwin Mitchell did a very poor job, messing up on numerous points. It felt as if they viewed it as an exercise in making money.

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Gillian

February 19, 2025

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Personal Injury claim

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Luis Dignan provided 10 star plus service in negotiations for settling a three year old claim. He is an asset to the Company.

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Clinical Negligence

Matter Type:

Fatal Medical Negligence Claims and Inquests

Scott

November 15, 2024

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Medical Negligence helped to get answers and secure positive outcomes

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Last year my wife passed away whilst in a mental health hospital. Initially, the NHS Trust tried to justify the circumstances and did not seem to acknowledge their failings in keeping my wife safe. So without Irwin Mitchell's help, the family would not have got the answers we deserved.

The Irwin Mitchell team (Thomas Riss-Bristow, Larrisa Harpley & Adam Wisman) were brilliant from the start, helping to gather all the required evidence, liaising with the Coroners office and the NHS legal representatives and then supporting the family during a week-long Inquest and the following legal discussions that came after. The team were professional, compassionate and caring throughout and I would highly recommend Tom and the team as they were key in helping us to get answers during these traumatic times.

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Jonathan

October 17, 2024

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Messed about and ripped off

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appointed these following a dispute with a kitchen retailer who took my money upfront and failed to complete the job
They have ripped me and my insurance company off for approximately 50 grand taken almost 3 years to achieve nothing, had me pay out over £2500 for independent inspection reports all 100% favouring my claim and have now walked away after myself and my family have lived and suffered in a partly fitted kitchen and they advised me to leave it in such a Way as to give the retailer a fare chance to come back and compete the works

The company that carried out the report also dealt with legal matters and they quoted 5k to take the case on however I’d already engaged with Irwin Mitchell

To say it’s not fair is an understatement

AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID

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Carol

July 12, 2024

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Excellent service

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Highly recommended they helped me a lot

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Wills, Trusts & Probate

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Probate

Max

April 15, 2024

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Better and cheaper options out there!

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Be careful as to whom you put down as an executor of a will because if it's a solicitors the charges for probate/dealing with the estate "could" run into thousands as per the experience here, and it's difficult to nigh impossible to remove them without having to go through a court. Whether it's charging by the hour or charging a percentage of the estate I am sure many don't realise how much this will cost because of course when you write a will you may have no idea of the fees that they will charge. So my advice is if your loved one has made a will through a solicitor maybe an uncomfortable conversation may be best to avoid a massive shock later. We will never know if using Irwin Mitchell as an executor was the wish of our loved one or if possible (alleged) "persuasion" was a factor when the will was being set up. I know our loved one would be horrified if they were still here.

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Peter

March 27, 2024

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Terrible experience

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Person who answered the phone asked a myriad of questions before trying to put me through to the appropriate dept . Didn’t manage to actually speak to a solicitor.!!!

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Daryl

February 23, 2024

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Good service

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It is stressful having to find legal advice. The team make the experience easier and bareable.

Lawyer named in this review:
Andrew Russell

Andrew Russell

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Employment

Matter Type:

Settlement Agreements

Katrina

February 21, 2024

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Great Service

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From the first call with Daniella Colton, she was so supportive which made me feel settled about the choices I had to make. Because of this, I chose to go with Irwin Mitchell for this reason and she was fantastic right to the very end making sure I fully understood everything along the way.

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Employment

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Employment Contracts

Maria

February 17, 2024

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Friendly and helpful staff

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I have used Irwin Mitchell for getting a settlement agreement from work and they did absolutely everything for me with a very successful outcome

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Nat

July 04, 2024

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Useless

Completely incompetent, we are trying to buy a house that these people are supposed to have started the probate application on 6 months ago. Our scoliciters today, after 2 weeks of trying to get an update, informed us that Irwin and Mitchell Chichester hadn't even applied for probate yet, and were planning on maybe doing it this week if they feel like it I guess? What have you been doing for the past 6 months! To anyone out there, If you are thinking of buying a house and these people have anything to do with it, walk away! Equally, If you are thinking of hiring them DON'T! They are utterly useless! Worse than useless!

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Paul

June 08, 2024

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Very grateful

Our grateful thanks to Gemma Davy for sorting out a complex estate and reaching a successful conclusion.

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Debbie

May 04, 2024

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Despicable service.

Absolutely despicable service. Phoned 13 days ago to retrieve my father's will. We were told it would take 5 days. I hadn't heard anything, so I called again today, and even though they have a record of our call, nothing has been done. Apparently, we now have to wait another week. Needless stress added to our family at this difficult time.

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Viran

February 04, 2024

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Excellent service

Irwin Mitchell Solicitors are excellent.

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Scott

September 09, 2023

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Out of pocket

They've paid for google ad that offer no win no fee judical review. Turns out the critera is you have to have a financial loss of over £100,000 for them to even be interested. Just another company not looking to help people and just make money for themselves. Out of pocket by almost £15-£18,000 and yet more time wasted to add to the 3 years. MAKE YOUR CRITERIA CLEAR TO NOT WASTE PEOPLES TIME.

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