Solicitors in Hastings

Our Hastings team are located right at the heart of the town, just a stone’s throw from Wellington Square Gardens. We are highly accessible and ready to help with your legal requirements.

Herington’s Solicitors has over 200 years of high-quality legal support experience, and we’ve used those years of expertise to innovate and improve our services.

We’re here to offer you clear and easy-to-understand legal advice. Our team are friendly and communicative throughout our client work, and we will ensure that you are kept up to date throughout your case.

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Our legal services for you in Hastings

Business Services

Our business lawyers provide specialist legal advice in clear, understandable terms on a wide range of matters. Our business solicitors in Hastings understand that making well-advised and properly thought-out commercial decisions can help grow your business and we are available to offer advice and legal protection.

We offer bespoke services tailored to your goals, and after an initial consultation, we can provide an estimate of our fees and any other costs that you may incur. You will be provided with an initial cost-of-services estimate that ensures you won’t get caught up in any unexpected fees.

We’re able to help you and act on your behalf in the following:

Commercial property
Buying or selling your business
Buying or selling your company
Partnership matters
Shareholder agreements
Commercial contracts
Commercial dispute resolution

Court of Protection

There are ways to protect the comfort and dignity of individuals who are losing or have lost mental capacity. Herington’s Court of Protection Solicitors in Hastings is a team of professionals who will put the needs of the vulnerable individual first and help you secure a stable environment and future for them by applying to the Court of Protection. We’re able to help with the following services:

Deputyship applications
Advice to deputies
Acting as professional deputies
Advice about mental capacity assessments
Advice about applying to the Court of Protection for one-off decisions
Advice about Statutory Wills
Advice about selling owned or jointly owned property
Advice about deprivation of liberty
Urgent and emergency Court of Protection applications
Means of protecting people from financial abuse

Dispute Resolution

We understand how intimidating it can be to go to court. Before you start the court process, we believe that you need to know all of your available options and their risks, benefits, costs and chances of success.

Our team of dispute resolution solicitors in Hastings will work to give you peace of mind. Regardless of the cause behind the dispute you’re facing, we’ll be on hand to offer you bespoke advice in a timely matter.

Wherever possible, we use mediation, negotiation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution methods to keep matters outside of court. However, if litigation becomes inevitable, then we’ll bring strong representation to court for you and work to get you a favourable and fair outcome.

Family Law

When legal matters affect the family balance, it can be tricky to know what your options are. Our family law solicitors in Hastings offer a compassionate consultation to learn about your circumstances and can then address your concerns and offer you honest and realistic advice. Any complicated legal terms will be explained, and we encourage questions and offer consistent updates.

Landlord and Tennant

Our landlord and tenant solicitors in Hastings work with both landlords and tenants to meet their needs concerning a range of circumstances and situations.

We offer clear and bespoke advice on residential matters, including:

Possession proceedings
Lease extensions
Leasehold enfranchisement and management
Advising on leases and agreements
Drafting and preparing documents
Residential landlord and tenant disputes

We can also help you with commercial matters such as:

Break clauses and break notices
Advising on the lease or agreement
Drafting and preparing documents
Possession proceedings

Probate and Trust

If you find yourself named as an executor in a Will, then you will need to manage the probate process. These are the steps by which you deal with the estate of the deceased.

Our probate and trust solicitor in Hastings can help you cope with the practical aspects of dealing with a loved one’s estate and address your duties as the holder of probate.

We are experienced in all aspects of probate and offer tiers of support for executors, covering a range of estates and trust formats.

Residential Property

For over 200 years, we’ve been helping people buy and sell homes. Our regional expertise is unparalleled, and we offer a wide range of specialist support and services.

Our residential property solicitors in Hastings know the local property market inside-out and can assist you with buy-to-let investments, transfer of equity, lease extensions and declarations of trust.

Wills and Power of Attorney

We understand why most people hesitate to organise their affairs in anticipation of passing away. But, through the legal organisation of your Will and Power of Attorney, you are able to set in stone your wishes for the future, including the management of your estate and things like your care procedures and funeral requests.

Our Wills and Powers of Attorney solicitors in Hastings can draft bespoke Wills that reflect your wishes, as well as help you with drafting a Power of Attorney or acting as an attorney.

Members of our team are in the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). We also are members of the Solicitors for the Elderly organisation, as we are truly committed to protecting our elderly and vulnerable clients.

Local resources in Hastings

Hastings County Court and Family Court

This court oversees matters including bankruptcy, childcare arrangements, adoption, no fault divorce hearings, high court cases, money claims and domestic abuse.

Find out more here.

Rother District Citizens Advice Bureau

The Rother District Citizens Advice Bureau provides free and confidential support for a range of matters.

Find out more here.

How to reach our solicitors in Hastings

Reaching us by car

We are based in the centre of Hastings, steps from the famous Wellington Square Gardens and the beach.

Castle Hill Road Car Park is a few minutes away, with Pay and Display parking, and Pelham Place Car Park is also nearby.

You can find the location of nearby car parks here.

Reaching us by bus

Our Hastings office is close to a wheelchair accessible bus and coach station at Pelham Place (Stop U), which supplies buses 70, 100, 101 wave and 321. We are also near Robertson Street (Stop L), which has a wider range of buses and coaches to the local area, including 70, 98, 99, 319, 321, 322, 322A, 322C, 323, and 1066.

You can find the location of various nearby bus stops here.

Reaching us by train

We are a five-minute walk away from Hastings Station.

Plan your journey

You can plan your journey to our office in Hastings here.

Accessibility

We are committed to making our offices as accessible as possible and improving our services both in-person and online.

If you would like to know more about our Hastings office’s accessibility, please do get in touch by calling ahead. Please also note that our office is dog friendly.