Nicholsons Solicitors

We re-engaged with the solicitors again after our late father passed away. The probate stage was not subject to the same long delays that my brother detailed with our late mothers estate the previous year, but there were long periods of silence from the solicitors. We had failed to appreciate there could be a capital gains tax liability and the solicitors having made us aware of the situation seemed to want us to take the lead in resolving it rather than volunteering a solution. The final distribution was made from the estate and the estate closed, but I received no notification of this and was sitting on the funds for 2 weeks before I realised it, whilst my brother received written notification. We are grateful the 2 estates were dealt with in a professional and sensitive manner but found it difficult to judge how much we needed to be pushing them after the delays and cost of our previous engagement.
Mar 5th, 2022

Steve Fordham was very helpful and professional today. He grasped my case very quickly and gave me reassurance and good advice. I am very grateful to him. It is an invaluable service at a very stressful time.
Jul 30th, 2022

Only giving a poor score as they never got back to me even to say they couldn't help me. Poor service.
Jun 8th, 2022

Happy to recommend this firm. They were very professional and provided excellent service to users. Thank you!
Mar 8th, 2022

We had previously retained Nicholsons for other legal matters and found them to be helpful, courteous and efficient, so they seemed a natural choice for the conveyancing on the sale of our UK property. This time, however, we found the personnel involved, and in particular the partner responsible, to be process-driven, offhand and unhelpful. Our UK sale was funding the purchase of a property overseas, a fact we made clear from the outset, but the personnel involved were entirely uninterested in assisting us with our needs in this regard. On the day we completed the sale, there was a long delay in our receiving the proceeds, which caused us to miss a cut-off time for an onward payment, (and a great deal of stress, wondering what had happened to a very large sum of money for some hours). The partner concerned was dismissive, stating that she had done 'more than she was required to do' by checking with the company's bank when the payment had been made, telling us to take the issue up with our bank and refusing to help further. While the conveyancing was handled efficiently enough, it was a poor client experience that does the firm no credit.
Oct 29th, 2022