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23 John Street, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1 1JG

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Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp Review Scores & Client Satisfaction Overview

4.5
Excellent
88%
Value for
Money
94%
Success
Rate
90%
Would
Recommend
Communication 4.4/5
Initial Impressions 4.5/5
Approachability 4.5/5
Documentation Accuracy 4.5/5
Legal Knowledge 4.6/5
Value for money 4.4/5

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Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp are accredited by

Children Law accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp
Criminal Litigation accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp
Personal Injury accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp

Description

Tilly Bailey & Irvine are the largest Solicitors in Hartlepool with 3 offices in York Road. We also have branches in Stockton, Wynyard and Barnard Castle. We can help with house moves, family issues, accidents and injuries, wills, trusts and probate, business issues and much more. Get strength on your side with Tilly Bailey & Irvine.

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Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp Review Scores & Client Satisfaction Overview

4.5
Excellent
89%
Value for
Money
6% above
national average
91%
Success
Rate
9% above
national average
90%
Would
Recommend
9% above
national average
Communication 4.5/5
Initial Impressions 4.5/5
Approachability 4.5/5
Documentation Accuracy 4.5/5
Legal Knowledge 4.6/5
Value for money 4.5/5

Accreditations

Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp are accredited by

Children Law accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp
Criminal Litigation accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp
Personal Injury accreditation awarded to Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp

Description

Tilly Bailey & Irvine are the largest Solicitors in Hartlepool with 3 offices in York Road. We also have branches in Stockton, Wynyard and Barnard Castle. We can help with house moves, family issues, accidents and injuries, wills, trusts and probate, business issues and much more. Get strength on your side with Tilly Bailey & Irvine.

Rankings by area of expertise

The rankings below show the areas of expertise that Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp offers to clients. You can see how good the service offered is in comparison to all other law firms nationally / locally.

Contact & Locations - Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp

23 John Street, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1 1JG

Reviews

4.5 /5 31 Reviews
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What clients say about Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp

The firm is highly praised for conveyancing, property purchases and sales, remortgages, probate, wills, powers of attorney, family matters and court work. Clients value its thorough legal knowledge, attention to detail and ability to handle complex or urgent transactions smoothly. Soft skills repeatedly highlighted include clear plain-English explanations, prompt communication, professionalism, efficiency, patience, reassurance, friendliness and a proactive approach. Many reviewers felt well informed, supported and confident throughout, with the firm helping to reduce stress and keep matters moving to completion.

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anonymous

Probate

I would give zero stars if i could! TBI have been ‘managing’ my grandparents estate. One passed away THREE years ago and the other nearly two. Probate went through nearly a year ago and TBI have still failed to process the formalities. The lack of communication has been appalling. The majority of the rest of the family have removed their own wills from TBI due to their poor standards. My grandparents trusted TBI to resolve their estate upon passing. They would be furious to know about this farce!

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We apologise that you haven’t experienced the high level of customer service that we pride ourselves upon. We would be grateful if you could contact us with your details so we can discuss this with the team involved as, due to anonymity, we are currently unable to locate the matter. Thank you for taking the time to leave us your feedback.

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Mark

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Housing & Property

Sale of house and probate

Professional, efficient, courteous and compasionate. All that you want when selling your late Mothers house. Highly recommended. Used Maria Northrop's team.

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Paul and Sandra Down

Wills, Trusts & Probate

A1 service

Having dealt with many different solicitors over a lifetime TB&I stand out as an excellent organisation. Through selling a house, setting up "Power of Attorney" documents and updating Wills everything has been dealt with speedily, with minimum stress and to our complete satisfaction.

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Jeremy Stockdale

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Housing & Property

House sale

My brother and I are delighted with the service we received from Tilly, Bailey and Irvine with the sale of our Mum’s property after her sad passing last year. There were a number of challenges with the bottom of the chain and we were kept informed of progress at all times. Particular thanks to Jessica for her professionalism and support.

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Matt Davis

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Housing & Property

Great Service

Tilly Bailey & Irvine have been brilliant managing my house sale on a probate, highly recommended

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Mary Carter

Housing & Property

Mary

Maria Northrop of the Stockton office led me through a long and protracted sale and a complicated purchase. Very professional when dealing with my matters and an unusual scenario purchasing a house in probate. I would recommend.

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Genna

Housing & Property

Genna

I used this solicitors to buy a house. When I bought my first house the solicitors I used would take days to reply to emails and didn’t really explain the legal terminology to me, so I expected the same from TBI, however I could have been more wrong. Alison and her team were amazing, answering any questions I had. All of my emails were answered on the same day. I also got equity from my previous home with the help from Denise, she was brilliant and explained everything simply and clearly. Thank you to all of the teams that I dealt with. Your help is much appreciated and made a stressful time a lot more relaxed ☺️

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Lucy

Wills, Trusts & Probate

Lucy

Excellent service received from Lynda, could not recommend her highly enough. Excellent communication throughout.

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Claire

Wills, Trusts & Probate

Claire

I just want to post that we had a fantastic experience with Michelle in the Hartlepool office last week. We had some missing documents from my late father from a different firm and she went above and beyond to help us. We had limited information and her communication was fantastic. We will definitely return for our own Wills, thank you so much for making a difficult situation so easy

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Julie

Wills, Trusts & Probate

Julie

I would like to thank shelly Hissit and her team at the Hartlepool branch.when my mam passed away shelly took care of everything for me from start to finish and was a big help to me especially when your grieving so thankyou to everyone involved in getting mams estate closed excellent service thankyou .

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4.5 /5 1334 Reviews
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What clients say about Tilly Bailey & Irvine Llp

The firm is highly praised for conveyancing, property purchases and sales, remortgages, probate, wills, powers of attorney, family matters and court work. Clients value its thorough legal knowledge, attention to detail and ability to handle complex or urgent transactions smoothly. Soft skills repeatedly highlighted include clear plain-English explanations, prompt communication, professionalism, efficiency, patience, reassurance, friendliness and a proactive approach. Many reviewers felt well informed, supported and confident throughout, with the firm helping to reduce stress and keep matters moving to completion.

Clear communication
Professional service
Efficient handling
Prompt responses
Kept informed
Friendly staff
Helpful guidance
Thorough advice
Smooth process
Patient support

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Pat Murphy

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House conveyance

Excellent communication and service. Process and communication by email and phone were very good.

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Katie & Joe

Housing & Property

Astounding service

We couldn’t recommend Bethany Smith highly enough. Throughout what turned out to be quite a complex purchase, we were kept extremely well informed at every stage and always felt that we understood exactly where things stood. Bethany was incredibly thorough throughout the whole process and took the time to explain everything clearly, particularly when more complicated issues arose. We really appreciated how understanding, patient and reassuring she was, while still making sure that everything was properly investigated and dealt with before we proceeded. We are extremely grateful to Bethany for all of her hard work and would absolutely recommend her.

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anonymous

Probate

I would give zero stars if i could! TBI have been ‘managing’ my grandparents estate. One passed away THREE years ago and the other nearly two. Probate went through nearly a year ago and TBI have still failed to process the formalities. The lack of communication has been appalling. The majority of the rest of the family have removed their own wills from TBI due to their poor standards. My grandparents trusted TBI to resolve their estate upon passing. They would be furious to know about this farce!

A representative from Tilly Bailey & Irvine LLP responded to this review

We apologise that you haven’t experienced the high level of customer service that we pride ourselves upon. We would be grateful if you could contact us with your details so we can discuss this with the team involved as, due to anonymity, we are currently unable to locate the matter. Thank you for taking the time to leave us your feedback.

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Kris

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Housing & Property

House purchase

During the buying process on a property I was assigned Rachael and Charmaine as my legal team. They were friendly, approachable and helpful in all matters. Any queries I had were answered promptly and fully. The transaction took some length of time through no fault of this legal team but they kept me informed and up to date of any checkpoints and milestones and promptly asked for documents ahead of time making it run very smooth on my side. I have found a great legal team here and will definitely be using them for any future legal matters. Thanks again Rachael and Charmaine, your help was very much appreciated!

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anonymous

Buying my first home

This has been the first experience of buying a home and hopefully it will be my last. Not all issues have been caused by this solicitor as a great deal of issues was caused by the sellers solicitor. However the biggest issue that plagues the team i have is lack of communication. We started this process in march and the problems started there. We were told to pay £100 for the searchs and a link would be sent to us, that link never arrived so after three weeks of waiting, i had to rin up for the links to pay and for the AML searches. Fast forward a few months with no communication unless i rang up, it is now one week before my mortgage offer expires, last week i was sent documentation to sign and send back to the team. This was sent via email, which i sign ditigally with a witness present on 12/08/2026, today i have rang to make sure that the team received the forms and was informed that they need wet signature copies. At no point in the previous week was i told that they need to be hand signed, no where in the original email was this relayed to me and the subsequent phone calls with questions relating to the documents did the team tell me that i need to print them off. 11 days to go before my offers expires and im being sent documents to sign and send back.

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Ian Fletcher

Ian

Great - absolutely great / thanks very much indeed!

Thanks for the 5 star review Ian. Our entire team at Tilly Bailey & Irvine will be over the moon to hear about the experience you had with us. Thank you for choosing to work with TBI Law.

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Steven Keogh

Personal Injury

Steven

Wonderful legal firm who took on our case when others wouldn’t, Amy explained all legal jargon clearly and in plain English and kept us upto date continually from start to conclusion and I would highly recommend using this firm over any other local firms.

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Jennie

Jennie

Fabulous solicitors - excellent customer service, professional and efficient at all times. Would highly recommend.

Thank you so much Jennie for this fantastic 5 star review. Our entire team will be very happy to hear about this. Thanks for choosing Tilly Bailey & Irvine!

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catherine brown

Housing & Property

catherine

We’ve just completed on the purchase of our home and I wanted to leave a review for Kelly Levoir’s Team at Tilly Bailey & Irvine. The whole process has taken a while and there have definitely been a few stressful moments along the way, but the team have always been helpful, professional and responsive. A special mention has to go to Frankie, the paralegal, who has been incredibly patient, friendly and helpful throughout. I know I’ve asked a lot of questions and needed reassurance at various points, but Frankie has always taken the time to explain things clearly and never made me feel like I was being a nuisance. Thank you to Kelly, Frankie and the rest of the team for helping us finally become homeowners. We really appreciate all of your help in getting us over the line.

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Matthew Clarke

Housing & Property

Matthew

Chloe Donkin and her team where assigned to our house purchase by Tilly Bailey & Irvine and we couldn't be more satisfied by the service they provided. Prompt, efficient and professional. 10/10 would recommend both the firm and Chloes team to anybody Thanks guys

Thank you for the 5 star review Matthew. Chloe and the rest of our conveyancing department will be over the moon to hear about your experience. Thanks for choosing Tilly Bailey & Irvine Solicitors for your house purchase and conveyancing needs!

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