Unfortunately, Ackroyd Legal does not currently accept new clients through ReviewSolicitors. To help you get expert legal advice as soon as possible, one of our employees can recommend another highly rated law firm that accepts new clients and forwards your request to them. They will then contact you to confirm your appointment. We will also send you an email with the details of the new company. James has acted for real estate investment firms in the purchase of businesses, including office buildings and shopping malls, for which he has provided legal advice on a number of matters, including commercial tenants with an FRI lease, analysis of the surveyor`s survey plan, licensing agreements for neighbouring properties regarding access to certain parts of the property and wall agreements of the party. James provided legal advice on the first forfeiture procedure for landlords when the lease violated the lease. With respect to business transactions, James discussed secured loan requirements for a facility agreement, including the preparation of security documentation, including debentures and personal guarantees. My partner and I are first-time buyers recommended by Stirling Ackroyd Estate Agents. We are very satisfied with the Stirling Ackroyd Legal team (Ayushie and Cilem), both of whom were very helpful and efficient during our first purchase. We will definitely recommend it. Thank you very much for your help! Andy Farell James is proud of the work he has done acting on behalf of developers on land sales and providing detailed legal advice on drafting new leases, parts transfers and novation contracts.

James provides long-term legal advice to developers on new construction developments in relation to relevant legal requirements, including agreements in Zones 106, 38 and 104, and provides legal advice on the phases to which the local authority adheres in order to assume responsibility for motorways and services after the completion of a new development. When it comes to investment purchases, James can provide legal advice on overrun clauses, marriage contracts, and boundary adjustments for farmland. James has experience with secured loans, including bridge loans, subordinated loans and refinancing issues. I had problems with a company that was not honest, but fortunately I met Aminah Bokhari from Stirlingackroydlegal and she solved the problem. Cheng The way the purchase of my home was handled by Stirling Ackroyd Legal was unacceptable in many ways: it was often impossible to have our lawyer on the phone. The receptionist would put us on hold, then tell us that our lawyer was on the phone, at a meeting or too busy and would call us back, but she would NEVER call us back. I would try again later or the next day, and the same thing would happen over and over again for months. So any communication had to be done by email and we sometimes had to wait 3 weeks to get an answer! The exception was *a week before completion*, when we let them know that we could not renew the rent of our current apartment (we had to postpone twice), then our lawyer was available and called us, but this did not compensate for the previous four months.- Several times we were in contact with a paralegal who tried to answer our questions.

but most of the time she was unable to answer and replied that our lawyer was too busy with other finishes; This excuse was used for several weeks!- Our lawyer went on vacation without letting us know and without anyone taking over. It was only after a few weeks without answers and after we had to go to their office in person, we were told about the holidays, and another lawyer would end up answering our questions: they brought someone who had no context, and we held a short “meeting” while we were at the reception because “I had not made an appointment” (This is not the case, that I tried to get my lawyer for weeks before!!!). – Our lawyer did not notice many significant problems with the papers he received, such as the fact that there was no lease that defined which part of the building was our property! When we specifically asked if there was one, they said there was one, and when we asked to see it (they hadn`t sent it to us at first), they realized that it was actually an old one and that we should ask for a new one to be blackened. They told us a WEEK before the agreed exchange date, which inevitably delayed everything (the sellers weren`t happy at all), when it could have been caught much earlier! – Our lawyer gave us false information on several occasions. She said, for example, that it was mandatory that there be a week between the replacement date and the completion date (with all the delays, we wondered if we could shorten this period). When asked why we had to wait a week, she replied that it was a clause of our mortgage lender. We contacted our mortgage lender who said that there was no such clause and that we were absolutely free to exchange and close on the same day if we wanted, which we eventually did.- The final bill was ultimately different from the offer. I was perfectly fine with being charged for the extra work they had to do, but they also wanted to charge me for things they hadn`t done (Help-to-Buy ISA).

When I was offered an explanation of the difference, my lawyer started adding numbers that didn`t make sense (e.g. with VAT vs. vat-free) and finally only told me that I had to pay regardless of the original offer (in short: it`s okay for them to charge me extra for their extra work, but I still have to pay for what they *didn`t do* but were originally offered!). I finally had to escalate the problem so that they could finally agree that they had made a mistake that they had corrected. In the end, they finally found another flaw in their quote for things they had forgotten to clutter me; I ended up receiving a total of 3 different invoices. My girlfriend and I were first-time buyers and decided to use Stirling Ackroyd after reading positive reviews and preferring a London-based lawyer we could easily contact and visit. However, the use of SA was a big mistake – we found it slow, inaccurate and impossible to contact. Our phone calls and emails were regularly made in the houses and no one answered our calls. At one point, they were waiting for payment to conduct investigations (which we had actually already paid!), but their accounting system missed that, so the whole process stagnated and instead of notifying us, our real estate agent had to call us and let us know what was going on. After a structural investigation into the property, we decided to withdraw our offer and were so unfazed by Stirling Ackroyd that we decided to hire a completely different lawyer (who was called “the partnership” and was extremely good and made a tricky sale very easy).

We are both still puzzled as to why SA has so many 5* reviews – we can only assume that they are made up by friends or completely invented. Use at your own risk! Showcase your lectures, awards, case stories and more. Very supportive commercial lawyers – we called on the services of Mr. Hiten Patel for a litigation case. Although the case is still ongoing, we are extremely satisfied with the level of service and professionalism of the team. Endorsement!! Carry on! Best lawyers in London!!! No other company like them!. At this time, no disciplinary or regulatory decision has been issued in respect of this individual. Read our Decision Posting Policy. ⚠ To notify the Law Society of inappropriate or offensive content posted on Find a Lawyer, please visit our contact page. A good effort on the part of James Shepherd on a promotion that had its challenges. Where do I start? This company is more than terrible and I can`t insist enough not to use it.

There was such a catalog of errors and unacceptable “service” from start to finish that it`s easier for me to write a list. – You will not get direct dialing for your “Account Manager”, so it is impossible to contact them.