Farleys Solicitors

Farleys Solicitors: legal advice for individuals and businesses

Farleys Solicitors is a UK law firm that provides legal services to both individuals and businesses. Its offering is organised into two main areas: personal services and business services, complemented by specific industry sectors. The firm has main offices in Blackburn, Burnley, London, Manchester, Preston, Rawtenstall and Wigan.

Services for individuals

The personal area covers abuse claims, claims against public authorities, criminal law, employment, family, inquests, medical negligence, motoring offences, personal injury, personal insolvency and bankruptcy, professional negligence, residential property, and wills, trusts and probate.

• Abuse claims: abuse in sports, in hospitals, in religious institutions, in schools and in the Scouts & Youth Organisations; claims against social services; CICA abuse claims; child abuse claims; revenge pornography.
• Claims against public authorities: actions against the police and claims following accidental disclosure of personal information.
• Criminal law: fraud, defence, business crime, serious crime and criminal offences.
• Employment: disciplinary, appeals and dismissal; discrimination in the workplace; employee grievance procedure; employment tribunals; harassment and bullying at work; breach of employment contract; redundancies and redundancy packages; settlement agreements.
• Family: divorce, children, child arrangements, civil partnerships, high net worth divorce, pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial agreements.
• Inquests: funding for inquests, inquest representation, public inquiries, inquests following a death in prison and inquests following a death involving the police.
• Medical negligence: A&E compensation claims, amputation claims, birth injuries claims, cosmetic surgery claims, delayed diagnosis claims, GP negligence claims, hospital compensation claims, inquests, medication errors, misdiagnosis claims, no win no fee compensation claims, sepsis and infection claims, and surgical accident claims.
• Motoring / driving offences: dangerous and careless driving, drink driving, mobile phone driving offences, speeding fines and offences, and exceptional hardship / totting up motoring offences – representation cost.
• Personal injury: accident at work claims, criminal injury claims, hair damage claims, inquests, no win no fee compensation claims, other personal injury claims, public liability claims, road traffic accident claims, serious injury claims, and work industrial disease compensation.
• Personal insolvency / bankruptcy: bankruptcy and insolvency, bankruptcy – duty to co-operate, challenging a disputed debt, debt advice, debt management, income payment agreements and orders, individual voluntary arrangements, and statutory demands – personal insolvency.
• Professional negligence: claims against solicitors, surveyors, accountants, financial advisers, architects, executors/trustees and valuers.
• Residential property: conveyancing quote calculator, buying or selling your house, auction property sales and purchases, buy to let purchases, first time buyers, transfers of equity, leasehold flats and houses, probate sales and assents, right to buy purchases and compulsory purchase order sales, and remortgage conveyancing.
• Wills, trusts and probate: will writing services, contentious probate, Court of Protection, probate, intestacy, lasting powers of attorney, professional deputyship, and trusts and estate planning.

Services for businesses

The business area includes commercial litigation, commercial property, corporate, corporate insolvency, debt recovery, employment, environmental law, fraud and business crime, and licensing.

• Commercial litigation: administration, company moratorium, directors' personal guarantees in insolvency, pre-pack administrations, public interest winding-up petitions, and winding-up petition injunctions.
• Commercial property: commercial leases, commercial property sales and purchases, land sales and acquisitions, commercial property and land development, SIPP and SSAS commercial property, commercial property finance, and commercial property disputes.
• Corporate: business sales / purchases, company formation and start up, confidentiality agreement, corporate restructuring / reorganisations, directors' duties, directors and shareholders meetings, Farleys Evolve – business start-up packages, management buyouts / buy-ins, partnerships, and shareholders agreement.
• Corporate insolvency: administration, company moratorium, directors' personal guarantees in insolvency, pre-pack administrations, public interest winding-up petitions, and injunctions.
• Debt recovery: enforcement of County Court judgments in the High Court and debt recovery guide.
• Employment: same areas as in the personal section.
• Environmental law: asbestos claims, contaminated land, Environment Agency investigations, environmental permits, health and safety investigations, and pollution claims.
• Fraud and business crime: corporate manslaughter, directors' defence, health and safety, and trading standards.
• Licensing: premises licences, personal licences, purchase of licensed premises, reviews and prosecutions, and temporary event notices.

Sectors served

The firm also organises its activity by sector: agriculture, automotive, digital and creative, education, family business, healthcare, manufacturing and engineering, professional services, renewable energy, retail, sport (including sports law for individuals), and transport and logistics.

Presence and contact

Farleys Solicitors has main offices in Blackburn, Burnley, London, Manchester, Preston, Rawtenstall and Wigan. The contact telephone number listed on the website is 01254 606008. The firm presents itself as part of Lawfront.