Bigger & Strahan > Services

At Bigger & Strahan we offer a full range of legal services as follows:

    Agency Services

    Commercial Clients

    Private Clients

Agency Services

We provide agency services to numerous solicitor's firms who do not have a practice within Northern Ireland and have correspondence throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland registering judgements under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgements Act 1982.

Commercial Clients

For our Commercial Clients we provide a full range of services including:

Asset and share sales and purchases
Preparation and negotiation of documentation.

Banking
Assistance in preparation for facility letters, inter-lender agreements, priority agreements, subordination agreements, preparing and taking all manner of security and securitisation and enforcement of security instruments.

Employment law
All aspects of advice and preparation of employment and services contracts, policies and procedures, discipline, absenteeism, performance, maternity, parental leave, redundancy, discrimination, harassment, dismissals, transfers of undertakings and industrial tribunal proceedings.

Insolvency
Advising creditors on insolvency including petitions for bankruptcy against individuals and for winding up and administration against companies and partnerships.

Land and Property
All aspects of sales and purchases including vetting of title, planning and building control matters, collateral warranties and certifying title for lending institutions.

Leases
Advice on, and preparation of, long-term, short-term and statutory protection under Business Finances Tenancies.

Mortgage repossessions

Recovery
Recovery of receivables for primary creditors and for assignees including all categories of proceedings for enforcement of judgements under the Enforcement of Judgements (NI) Order 1981 and the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

Private Clients

For our Private Clients we provide a full range of services including:

Conveyancing and Property Transactions

Prompt service and advice given to clients, together with pre-instruction estimate of costs, outlay and stamp duty for:

• Buying, selling, re-mortgaging.
• Family transfers and deed of family arrangement.
• Leases and tenancy agreements.

Elderly Client

Should a home visit be necessary, this can be easily arranged by prior appointment. Advice in respect of:

• Legal rights, duties and needs of elderly clients.
• Powers of attorney (general and enduring), appointment of controllers, housing, residential and nursing care advice, testamentary provision.

Employment

All aspects of advice for the private client in respect of:

• Contracts and terms of employment.
• Effect of changes in employment conditions, breaches of terms of employment, disciplinary matters, redundancy, discrimination, harassment and all industrial tribunal proceedings.

Litigation

Advice on all types of litigation including in the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland and County Court arising out of:

• Contractual disputes.
• Lands tribunal for Northern Ireland, dispute references.
• Road traffic and industrial accidents.

Wills, Probate and Intestacy

Advice on:

• Grants of Probate, letters of administration and general administration and distribution of estates.
• Wills, testate and intestate succession, challenging testamentary provision.