Whether you’re a home owner, a landlord or a tenant, it’s easy for things to go sour and for you to end up in a dispute you don’t want to have to deal with. From squatters who need to be evicted to nightmare landlords, there are many potential housing problems that are hard to manage on your own.
Our housing solicitors can help
We understand the challenges of the landlord and tenant relationship and have acted on both sides of disputes.
We can guide you in any matter or issues arising with local housing authorities, housing applications, tenants, landlords, ownership, repairs and many more. This department also regularly represents clients in the courts, ensuring they receive the highest quality assistance throughout their case. The firm takes pride in very experienced and acclaimed specialists in this area with many years of experience with Local Authorities.
We offer housing representation in all our offices, exclusively as a specialist area. We provide
Services for Individuals in the following head as:
- Homelessness
- Disrepair
- Eviction
- Illegal Eviction
- Succession for tenants
- Neighbourhood problems
- Debt
And Services for Landlords:
- Possession proceedings
- Illegal Eviction
There is legal Aid funding available for work in this category Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, changes to the eligibility criteria for Legal Aid also called public funding changed from April 2013.
Legal Aid for Disrepair Claims
Your disrepair claim may also be covered by legal aid if you can show that the disrepair to your property is health hazard within specified categories.
Our housing solicitors will be able to advise you on how to prove that this is the case.
Tenants may also be eligible for Legal Aid if.
- The tenant is applying to the court to order the landlord to carry out repairs
- The tenant is defending court action brought by a landlord for eviction because of rent arrears
- The health and safety of the tenant and/or their family is at serious risk
Do get in touch with us
At Kingsville Law Solicitors we offer expert legal advice on all housing matters, if a disrepair matter has had a negative impact on your health, you may be entitled to legal aid advice and assistance.
Our lawyers will be happy to discuss your claim in full – and answer any questions you may have about your case and whether you are entitled to legal aid or explore other areas of funding including private funding.
Privately funded client are charged at either agreed/fixed fee and or hourly rated basis depending on the grade/qualification of the Solicitors dealing with the matter. All fees are subjected to VAT at the prevailing rate of 20%.
We will charge you £300.00 for each hour spent on your matter by [Gafar Gbadamosi or equivalent person responsible for the case].
Where others are required to assist with your matter, we will charge you the following hourly rates for their work:
| Grade | Description | Hourly rate |
| 1 | Solicitors with over 8 years’ post-qualification experience | £300.00 |
| 2 | Solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ post-qualification experience | £265.00 |
| 3 | Solicitors of less than 4 years’ post-qualification experience, legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience | £240.00 |
| 4 | Trainees, paralegals and fee earners of equivalent experience | £220.00 |
All routine correspondence which we write will be charged at 1/10th of the hourly rate, while routine correspondence we receive will be charged at 1/20th of the hourly rate.
All routine telephone calls, either made or received, will be charged at 1/10th of the hourly rate.
More complicated correspondence and telephone calls will be charged at the hourly rate for the actual time they take.
Disbursement Charges
Additional charges may be payable for Disbursement. This are charged at the rate the Landlord/service provider prescribed fee chargeable. This amount payable depends on the category of relevant work being made on your behalf including the Disrepair claim for example expert report charges. There may be separate charges payable if you are defending a claim, court/Trial fees. Please enquire within.
Other expenses
There may also be other expenses which we need to pay on your behalf. These can include:
- court fees.
- fees for expert reports.
- barristers’ fees.
These will be listed separately on your bill, and you may be charged VAT in relation to these expenses too.