We provide services in the following areas. If you wish to know whether your matter can be dealt with by us, please make further inquiries.

Criminal Law
•Shepherd and Co has considerable experience in arranging the Defences countrywide in Magistrates Courts, Crown Courts and Court of Appeal. Complete confidentiality in this area of work, as in all others, is assured.
•As with all Solicitors, we act as Officers of the Court, and are unable to mislead the Courts where a Guilty Plea is warranted. However such issues are carefully explored and careful representation arranged.

Conveyancing
•Purchases and Sales
•Home Information Packs (more info)
•Transfers
•Declarations of Trust
•Private Mortgages
•Boundary Resolutions
•Adverse Possession
•Possessory Titles

County Court and High Court Litigation
•Issue and defence of civil claims

Attorneys
•Ordinary Powers
•Lasting Powers
•Joint and Several Appointments
•Restrictions and Limitations
•Registration at the Court of Protection

Advising the Elderly
•Ownership of Assets
•Tax implications of disposal
•Nursing Home contracts
•Receiverships

Wills, Probate and Trusts
•Appointment of Executors
•Guardians
•Inheritance Tax planning
•Discretionary Trusts
•Lifetime Gifts
•Living Wills

Employment
•Contracts of Employment
•Redundancy Calculations
•Severance Payments
•Service Agreements
•Compromise Agreements

Family Law
•Marriage Breakdown
•Financial Settlements
•Contact with children
•Maintenance calculations
•In court settlements
•Out of court settlements

Financial
•Mortgages and Remortgages
•Equity Release Schemes
•Loans
•Declarations of Solvency