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Ellis - Fermor & Negus Ltd

0115 972 5222
4.6/5
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We hope you will discover that at Ellis-Fermor & Negus solicitors we are passionate about providing all our clients, businesses, charities and individuals with high-quality legal solutions coupled with a distinctive service that treats people as individuals with individual needs. Read more...

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Ellis - Fermor & Negus Ltd
have 4 other locations

Unit 1, Fountain Court
Nottingham
NG2 5LN

2 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston
Nottingham
NG9 1BS

The Old Registry, Belper
Belper
DE56 1UU

5 Market Place, Ripley
Ripley
DE5 3BS

Unit 1, Fountain Court
Nottingham
NG2 5LN

2 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston
Nottingham
NG9 1BS

The Old Registry, Belper
Belper
DE56 1UU

5 Market Place, Ripley
Ripley
DE5 3BS

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Timothy Jones

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Luke Tattersall-Smith

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How Ellis - Fermor & Negus Ltd Compares

Value for money

This firm - 93%
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Yes 92%
No 8%

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Yes 92%
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Rankings by area of expertise

The rankings below show the areas of expertise that Ellis - Fermor & Negus Ltd offers to clients. You can see how good the service offered is in comparison to all other law firms nationally.

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Consumer
1st / 6
473rd / 4486
Company & Commercial
1st / 7
662nd / 4271
Housing & Property
1st / 2
1080th / 4211
Family Law
1st / 6
976th / 3805
Wills, Trusts & Probate
1st / 7
729th / 3459
Commercial Property
1st / 7
592nd / 3268
Employment
1st / 6
400th / 3049
Regulations
1st / 6
331st / 2494
Personal Injury
1st / 3
521st / 2330
Money & Tax
1st / 6
433rd / 1826
IT & Intellectual Property
1st / 1
230th / 1037
Dispute Resolution
1st / 1
342nd / 1033
Clinical Negligence
1st / 2
293rd / 941
Banking
1st / 1
106th / 695
Charities
1st / 2
155th / 558

Data shown above is based on the reviews and client feedback collected by ReviewSolicitors over the last 12 months.

Review Sources

Client Reviews

4.6/5

Reviews summary

  • Excellent

    175

  • Very Good

    5

  • Average

    2

  • Poor

    2

  • Awful

    14

Overall experience

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  • Communication
  • Initial Impressions
  • Approachability
  • Documentation Accuracy
  • Legal knowledge
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Employment

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Matter Type:

Settlement Agreements

Anonymous

July 11, 2025

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Great experience within a stressful matter!

My experience with Tim Jones and Leanne Latham was very positive. From my initial enquiry, to the finalised settlement agreement. Both Leanne and Tim have been very quick in both responding and moving the process along. Both were able to offer clear and supportive guidance and Tim provided legal advice in an easy to understand manner.

Both Leanne and Tim made this process a whole lot easier. I met Tim feeling very anxious about the whole situation but I left feeling at ease and confident I was making the right decision.

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Glenn
Consumer

Matter Type:

Litigation - Property litigation claims

Glenn

July 04, 2025

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Removal of executor and eviction.

Tim has had experience in similar cases to ours, which gave us confidence in his ability. He was very professional throughout the two court cases he dealt with and produced a successful result for both. Good communication throughout with a sense of humour to lighten the stressful situation.

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Lucy K
Employment

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Employment Law

Lucy K

June 02, 2025

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Tim Jones

Outstanding service, guidance and support from Tim Jones at the Long Eaton office from start to finish, on an employment matter.
Extremely friendly and approachable and turned everything around in record time.
I would highly recommend.
Highly

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Nick

Nick

October 10, 2024

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Creation of a short term licence

At short notice we needed assistance to create a short term licence for a third party to rent part of our community sports club facilities. We approached our contact Ben Bourne at Ellis-Fermur & Negus who kindly put us in touch with Luke Tattersall-Smith. Luke grasped the requirements rapidly and prepared the licence and conducted negotiations with the licensee professionally and to a satisfactory conclusion for all parties.

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September 24, 2024

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Great

Good experience always got back to me and were clear with the advice

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Andrew Francis Beaumont
Wills, Trusts & Probate

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Matter Type:

Disputed Wills

Andrew Francis Beaumont

July 13, 2024

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Tim & Charlie's Will dispute

Excellent, timely work by both Tim & Charlie.
I would recommend your practice widely.

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Emma B
Employment

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Redundancy

Emma B

November 07, 2023

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Very professional and efficient service

I highly recommend EF&N, Tim made a very stressful time much easier, with professional advice, a prompt response and dealing with negotiation on my part. Very impressed and grateful. Many thanks.

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Laura Butterworth
Consumer

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Litigation Law

Laura Butterworth

October 26, 2023

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Tim Jones

I cannot thank Tim enough for his help with a complex, protracted case. Even at it's lowest points, Tim always gave me hope we would get through it and he was always calm, professional and put me at ease. Would recommend him to anyone.

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Elaine
Dispute Resolution

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Mediation

Elaine

October 05, 2023

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Professional and caring

Tim Jones did a first rate job from beginning to resolution of a will dispute. He gave us full confidence through the initial meetings to the day itself.
He was fully prepared for the outcome, saving time and money through meticulous preparation.
Would have no hesitation in recommending.

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Anonymous

September 29, 2023

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Dispute Resolution

We were in a difficult situation concerning the contesting of a will. We were advised by Ellis-Fermor & Negus Solicitors on how to proceed with this issue, leading to a satisfactory conclusion.

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Andrew

July 15, 2022

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Andrew

Absolutely useless.
Rang them about a matter, was told someone would call me back, they never did. Rang again the next day, same thing. Rang again the next day, same thing. Went in to see what was going on, was told no one was available, they would call me. They never did.
For some reason I later approached them again about a different matter, was told someone would ring me back. They never did.

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Gillian

Gillian

June 05, 2022

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Gillian

Very professional. Helpful and picked up my case after I had problems with my former solicitor. Listened to me and very understanding of the issues I had experienced.

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Romaine

Romaine

May 15, 2022

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Romaine

Extremely Poor service, continuously having to chase for answers to simple questions.

We understand that there can be many dependencies when completing a house purchase but we would expect a response to queries that they should be able to answer.

The solicitor assigned to our purchase had left the company meaning our purchase was moved to the Beeston branch and we were not informed until a few months later after continuously chasing for information

This purchase has been a stressful process and Ellis-Fermor & Negus have done nothing to make it easier.

I would strongly advise to find another solicitors

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Scott

Scott

February 01, 2022

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Very friendly staff

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Lee

Lee

September 23, 2021

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Very professional & helpful.

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We trust our practice matches our aims and certainly our growth from a one-man enterprise in 1893 into a regional firm with four offices across the East Midlands, at Ripley and Belper in Derbyshire, Beeston in Nottingham and Long Eaton on the borders of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire suggests many of our clients agree.

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Personal areas of law

  • Clinical Negligence
    • Clinical Negligence
  • Consumer
    • Consumer Disputes
    • Consumer Rights
    • Litigation - Breach of contract
    • Litigation - Insurance disputes
    • Litigation - M&A and warranty disputes
    • Litigation - Product liability claims
    • Litigation - Property litigation claims
    • Litigation - Trust and pension issues
    • Litigation Law
    • Travel rights
  • Employment
    • Agency Staff / Temp Workers
    • Constructive/Unfair Dismissal
    • Disciplinary Hearings
    • Discrimination at Work
    • Employee Team Moves
    • Employment Contracts
    • Equal Pay Disputes
    • Family Leave
    • Flexible Working
    • Gardening Leave
    • Harassment/Bullying at Work
    • Holiday Pay Issues
    • Maternity and Paternity
    • Media and Sports
    • Part Time Workers
    • Pension Law
    • Privacy and Data Protection
    • Professional Discipline
    • Redundancy
    • Restrictive Covenants
    • Senior Executives
    • Settlement Agreements
    • Stress at Work
    • TUPE
    • Tribunal Claims
    • UK Employment Laws
    • Unfair Dismissal Claims
    • Whistleblower Protection
  • Family Law
    • Adoption, Surrogacy, Care and Special Guardianship
    • Asset protection and tax mitigation
    • Child Arrangements Following Divorce
    • Child Law
    • Child Relocation After Divorce
    • Child contact
    • Children
    • Children Act proceedings
    • Civil Partnership Dissolution
    • Civil partnerships
    • Cohabitation agreements and disputes
    • Cohabitation and Unmarried Relationships
    • Collaborative Law
    • Divorce After A Brain Or Other Serious Injury
    • Domestic Abuse
    • Family Mediation
    • Family law
    • Financial Matters
    • Grandparents' Rights
    • Inheritance Act claims
    • Injunctions
    • Lasting power of attorney
    • Matrimonial finance
    • Out Of Court Divorce
    • Parental responsibility, paternity disputes, surrogacy
    • Pension and property advice
    • Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements
    • Separation
    • Separation Agreement
    • Social Services
    • Unmarried Couples' Rights
  • Housing & Property
    • Anti-social Behaviour
    • Boundary Disputes
    • Buying at auction
    • Declarations of trusts
    • Deeds of Gifts
    • Deeds of easements, variation, deeds of rectifications
    • Dilapidation Claims
    • Evicting Squatters and Trespassers
    • Exclusivity and lock-out agreements
    • Extending your Lease
    • Freehold Enfranchisement
    • Housing Associations
    • Housing Management
    • Housing disputes
    • Injunctions
    • Investment and buy to let properties
    • Landlord and Tenant
    • Lease Extensions
    • Leasehold properties
    • Matrimonial transfers
    • Neighbour Disputes
    • New home purchases and sales
    • Option agreements and conditional contracts
    • Planning
    • Possession and repossession proceedings
    • Property Disputes
    • Purchase and Sale
    • Remortgaging
    • Renting and Tenancy Agreements
    • Repossessions
    • Residential Conveyancing
    • Restrictive Covenants, Easements and Wayleaves
    • Right of First Refusal
    • Right of Way and Rights to Light
    • Right to Manage
    • Service Charge Disputes
    • Service Charge Recovery
    • Tenancy Breaches, Injunctions and Forfeiture Claims
    • Tenant Eviction
    • Transfer of title
    • Transfers of equity
    • Transfers of parts of land
    • Unpaid Rent, Service or Ground Charges
  • Money & Tax
    • Debt and Bankruptcy
    • HMRC Tax Investigations and Disputes
    • Inheritance Tax
    • Insolvency and bankruptcy
    • Property Holding Structures
    • Tax
    • Tax Advisory Services
    • Tax Compliance Services
    • Trusts
  • Personal Injury
    • Against The Council
    • Benefits Available To Asbestos Victims
    • Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme
    • Gym Injury Compensation
    • Personal Injury Law
    • Welfare Issues After Serious Injury
  • Wills, Trusts & Probate
    • Probate
    • Trusts
    • Wills

Business areas of law

  • Banking
    • Banking
  • Charities
    • Charities
  • Commercial Property
    • Commercial Leases
    • Commercial mortgages
    • Finance
    • Investment purchases and Buy to Let
    • Landlord and tenant
    • Planning law
    • Purchase and Sale Of Commercial Property
    • Purchase of development land
    • Rights of way issues
    • Sales or purchases of shops, factories, warehouses, offices and licensed premises
  • Company & Commercial
    • Agency agreements
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
    • Asset Tracing
    • Business structures and joint ventures
    • Commercial Law
    • Commercial Litigation Matters
    • Competition law
    • Contractual Disputes
    • Corporate Law
    • Corporate finance
    • Credit Control
    • Data Protection
    • Debt Recovery
    • Franchising
    • Insolvency and Bankruptcy
    • Intellectual Property
    • Management buyouts
    • Merchandising and sponsorship
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Mis-sold Interest Rate Swap Agreements
    • Partnership and LLP law
    • Sales and Purchases
    • Setting up a business
    • Share option schemes
    • Shareholder Agreements
    • Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
    • Statutory Demands
    • Summary Judgment
    • Tax
    • Unfair Loan Charges
  • IT & Intellectual Property
    • Advertising and Marketing Compliance
    • Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy
    • Computer and IT Law
    • Confidential Information, Know-How and Trade Secrets
    • Copyright
    • Dealing with intellectual property infringements
    • Design rights and product designs
    • GDPR
    • Intellectual Property Litigation and Dispute Resolution
    • Patents
    • Personality and Image Rights
    • Trade Marks and Designs
  • Regulations
    • Health and Safety
    • Licensing