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To: 'saintallnights@hotmail.com'

Dear Mr Haswell

Thank you for your email of 19 February 2014.

I can confirm that you may search for solicitors in your area who may assist you by accessing the “Find a Solicitor” service through the Law Society website onwww.lawsociety.org.uk/find-a-solicitor. Alternatively you may wish to contact the Law Society on 0207 320 5650 so that they may search for you.

To conduct a search yourself, please enter the postcode/location that you wish to base your search around and also select the appropriate area of law from the drop down menu. There is also the option to select a different country from a drop down menu if required.

If you wish to tailor your search further, by clicking on "more search options" to the right of the drop down menus, you will be able to select one or more of the following:

• a 2nd area of law
• an accreditation scheme - this will allow you to search for firms with solicitors who are accreditation scheme members (this means that a solicitor has demonstrated special competence in a particular area of law).
• a language - this will allow you to search for firms with solicitors that are able to speak the language that you require.
• wheelchair access - this will allow you to search for firms with wheelchair access.
• training contracts - this will allow you to search for firms that have authorisation to take on trainee solicitors.

The search will display 50 firms in the order of distance from your chosen postcode/location.  However we cannot guarantee that there will be firms in your chosen location that meet all of your specific requirements.

Information is also available in the following publications: The Solicitors Regulation Authority's National Directory, Chambers and Partners Guide to the Legal Profession and the Legal 500 published by Legalease. Copies are normally held in the reference sections of local libraries and by some Citizens Advice Bureau.

We cannot confirm whether or not firms offer free consultations, no win no fee advice or Legal Aid. Further guidance on the Legal Aid Scheme can be obtained from Civil Legal Advice on 0845 345 4345. Alternatively their website address is www.gov.uk/civil-legal-advice.

I hope that this information is helpful. If you have any further queries that you would like to discuss, please contact us by telephone on 0870 606 2555. If you are calling from overseas please use +44 (0) 121 329 6800. Our lines are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 8.00am to 6pm, Tuesday: 9.30am to 6pm. Please note calls may be monitored/ recorded for training purposes. Alternatively you can e-mail us at contactcentre@sra.org.uk. 

Thank you for contacting the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Yours sincerely

Renée Alleyne
Contact Centre Officer

Contact Centre
Solicitors Regulation Authority

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Well I contacted The Law Society and they state I can get representation and pointed me to their site, I hope it is better than it was previously.

Was a few years ago I was a PA to a solicitor and used their site.

Actually it was them that explained to me that all solicitors are dreadful when it comes to computers and the Internet! I did show my surprise when they told me this and as I dealt with the different aspects of conveyancing it quickly became obvious they were right. Certainly with the many solicitors I dealt with and the Law Society. But that was ten years ago now and hopefully things have changed since then?

But then one reply stated that the email they received was blank?!

Lol!