Welcome to

Bath Law Solicitors

Bath Law is an established local Legal Practice with an office in central Bath, UK, but also covering Bristol, West Wiltshire and North Somerset.

It is recognised that the Firm's clients not only want a high quality service; they also expect a quick response, value for money and a productive result.

The Firm is large enough and sufficiently resourced to meet the demands of most private and commercial clients yet small enough to remain nimble and responsive to an individual client's particular requirements.

We cover a wide variety of different areas of law including;

• Company / Commerial
• Criminal Law
• Employment Law
• Entertainment Licensing
• Family and Divorce
• Litigation
• Motoring
• Personal Injury
• Property
• Spanish Law
• Wills, Trusts and Probate

Bath Law is a trading name of Chebsey Law Limited. Chebsey Law Limited trades under the name Chebsey & Co outside of Bath.

Our Latest News

8th May 2012 - Every Suspect has Right to Free Legal Advice
The Home Office have recently confirmed that any suspect who is interviewed by the police has a right to free legal advice. Importantly, this right exists for anyone who is interviewed by a police officer, whether this interview takes place at the police station or not. Even people who have not been arrested have this right. For example, police often interview people about a criminal offence at their home address. These people also have a right to have a solicitor present for this important part of the investigation, free of charge. For more information about this, please contact our Criminal Department on 01225 401200, or visit the Criminal Department webpage.

Important changes to Liquor and Entertainment Licensing take place after 25th April 2012. Read HERE for further details.

Bath Law chosen to take part in a debate on Due Diligence at the Property Investor Show

The Head of our Spanish Department, Peter Esders, has been asked to take part in a Panel Debate at the Property Investor Show. The debate, entitled "AIPP Debate: The Due Diligence you MUST undertake when buying overseas property" will be hosted by the Chairman of the Association of International Property Professional (AIPP) which Bath Law are members of. Details of the seminar and the Property Investor Show can be found HERE.

Stamp Duty exemption coming to an end

The first time buyer exemption  from the 1% tax for properties under £250,000 is due to come to an end on 24 March. Move with Us  has calculated that  the average purchase takes 39 days to go through  and as such today 14 February is the last day that will allow the transaction to be completed within this time period.

New Look Newsletter now out

Our new look newsletter is now out. Click HERE to download a copy and HERE to sign up for future editions straight into your inbox.
This edition of the newsletter covers a range of subjects;
Energy Performance Certificates

• Making Wills
• Common mistakes made during the breakdown of a family
• Franchising
• How to protect yourself from Property Fraud
• Debt Collection
• DNA Retention by the Police
• Cash seizure by the Police
• A Spanish budget update
• Our 2011 Satisfaction questionnaire statistics