Elliot Mather LLP

Elliot Mather LLP, legal advice in the East Midlands

Elliot Mather LLP is a limited liability partnership authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, with partnership number OC321320. Its registered office is at St. Mary's Court, St. Mary's Gate, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. The firm operates from four offices in Chesterfield, Derby, Mansfield and Nottingham, and presents itself as one of the largest law firms in the East Midlands.

The firm serves both individuals and businesses, entrepreneurs and families, and structures its activity into specialist departments. The firm states that it has specialists in numerous areas of legal practice and offers a contact form to direct enquiries to the client's preferred office.

Areas of practice for individuals

Its work for individual clients covers several branches of law:

• Family law: cohabitation agreements and disputes arising from them, domestic violence, pre-nuptial and pre-partnership agreements, separation and divorce, and family mediation.
• Criminal law: benefit fraud, appeals, Crown Court, dog law, Magistrates Court, motoring offences, police station representation, proceeds of crime and regulatory law.
• Dispute resolution: consumer rights, contract disputes, debt recovery, inheritance, wills and contested trusts, landlord and tenant (residential), professional negligence, property and land disputes, and slander and libel.
• Employment law: contracts of employment and service agreements, discrimination, employment status, grievance and discipline, redundancy, restrictive covenants (employee), settlement agreements, TUPE, unfair dismissal, unlawful deductions and wrongful dismissal.
• Residential property: buying a property, enfranchisement, lease extensions and acquisition of freehold, remortgage, transfers of equity and gifts.
• Wills, probate and elderly client services: Court of Protection, intestacy, lasting power of attorney, paying for care, probate and wills.

Services for businesses and corporate clients

The business area covers commercial agency and distribution agreements, business sales and purchases, commercial agreements, joint ventures, franchise agreements, licensing and service level agreements. In the commercial property field it deals with agricultural property, landlord and tenant, property development, purchases and sales, refinance and bank security.

The corporate division includes company formation and business startup, company secretarial service, corporate restructuring, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and partnership agreements.

In business dispute resolution, the firm handles business disputes, construction and engineering, consumer rights, contract disputes, debt recovery, insolvency, landlord and tenant (commercial) and property and land disputes.

The employment area for businesses comprises business restructures, day to day support, drafting services, employment tribunals, equality and diversity, and restrictive covenants (employer).

Mediation

Elliot Mather LLP offers civil and commercial mediation, family mediation and workplace mediation, with specific geographical coverage for family mediation.

Accreditations and professional memberships

The firm states that it is approved by the Legal Aid Agency and by The Law Society. Its solicitors are members of various specialist panels, including the Family Panel, the Children Panel, the Mediation Panel, the Criminal Litigation Panel and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

The firm maintains professional indemnity insurance in accordance with the rules of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and provides information about the insurers and the territorial coverage of the policy for inspection at its offices.

Presence and informative activity

The firm publishes informative content on its website on topics such as Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor mortgages, equity release mortgages, the age of consent in the UK and pet custody in divorces. It also has a conveyancing calculator to obtain instant quotes for buying, selling and remortgaging.