Avoid at all costs!
Neil is a particularly great salesman, I will give him that but an absolutely useless solicitor.
I was recently convicted for a drug driving offence this year which I was arrested for back in 2023. I had used cocaine 4/5 days! prior to the offence and was completely under the impression that I was innocent and my blood levels had been incorrectly sampled.
Almost everything that Neil said would likely happen in regards to the caseâŠ. Did not.
A fixed fee was agreed upon and included my initial court appearance, an interim hearing and representation at my trial by one of Neilâs senior barristers. It also included a medical report from an expert witness (further on that down the line)
The barrister at the initial court appearance was a trainee and was completely picked apart by the judge. I am a confident person and can honestly say I would have represented myself in a far more collected manor. She crumbled at every question like a child, which she was. After some research I believe her laws firm charges ÂŁ200-300 for her representation of me there was an interim hearing which the barrister Neil instructed didnât even bother shower up to or tried joking last minute by video call which was clearly stated as unacceptable prior to the hearing. Again, another junior barristers, not worth a penny.
Cps were very slow on providing the sfr2 document that we needed for our expert to do his report. They provided this in early December 2024 Neil took until the end of January 2025 to respond. Unacceptable as my trial date was in February. I found out that in court his excuse for this was someone leaving his law firm (canât blame them). The judge found this laughable.
The senior barristers I had representing me at trial was lovely. Nick. In no way a senior barrister though. I had a good chat with Nick as Neil told me my representation at trial would be costing him ÂŁ3000.00 plus vat
Me and Nick had a nice little chat because he was a lovely genuine man that felt sorry for me and he couldnât tell me the exact figure he charged but in his own words said that I had been taken to so town so to speak. If this is true or not is not down to me to say but his comments filled me with dis confidence Extremely upsetting to hear! Take what you will from that.
Nick asked why we hadnât had and expert report done as it was the only benefiting factor to our case. We had not had this done because of missing information on the sfr2âŠNeil is the only person that has this opinion there is missing information.
I have paid for a service. A highly expensive supposedly high quality service that I did not receive .
My fee was ÂŁ10,800.00
I was charged an additional ÂŁ550.00 on top of this for an additional hearing which was Neilâs or chambers fault.
I was originally told that the expert witness report would cost ÂŁ1500.00 At the end of all this, I was told it actually itâs only ÂŁ500.00âŠ.. Pretty convenient. Havenât even had that returned to me though, even though Iâve paid for something and havenât received.
Feel free to drop me a call NeilâŠ. If youâre not too busy to do so as always.
I have been misled and I just hope this doesnât happen to anyone else. This company is far from professional and it is my hope that no one else gets involved with them!
The lies or miscommunication throughout the whole process were soul destroying
Not even offered the money back for the expert witness report that Never got done.
This has been edited because they (Neil) told me they will take legal proceedings against me for this review.
