This page has contact details for some of the best Legal Aid Solicitors in Ipswich.
Taylor Haldane Barlex LLP
Company History
Taylor Haldane Barlex LLP was incorporated on 29 March 2008 as a limited liability partnership under company number OC336000, with its registered office in Chelmsford, Essex. The firm (also known as THB Solicitors) describes its formation date as 2001, reflecting earlier origins in its constituent practices. Over the years, it has grown to be one of the larger full-service law firms in Essex, Suffolk and East Anglia, with multiple offices including Ipswich, Chelmsford, Braintree, Benfleet, and Shoeburyness.
THB has built specialist teams in a variety of legal areas. Their expertise includes criminal defence, family law (including children law), regulatory and professional misconduct, probate, wills and trusts, conveyancing, and mental capacity / Court of Protection work. The firm is regularly recognised in independent legal directories such as Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500, for several of its departments and individual lawyers.
In the Ipswich office, one partner, Vickie Brazier, is based there and specialises in children law. She is a Fellow Chartered Legal Executive, admitted to the Law Society Children’s Panel, with experience in care proceedings, adoption, emergency protection orders, special guardianship, placement orders, variation of orders, contact disputes, and representing interveners.
Legal Aid Services
THB Solicitors in Ipswich offer certain legal aid-funded services, subject to the usual eligibility criteria (including scope of the issue, financial means, and merits of the case). Based on what is known:
- Criminal Defence: THB accepts legal aid for criminal law work. Their criminal department handles matters from the police station stage through to representation in the Magistrates’ Courts and Crown Courts. This includes regulatory offences and serious criminal charges, where legal aid is applicable.
- Family Law / Children Law: The Ipswich office has a strong family and children law team. Some of their work in this area qualifies for legal aid — for example, care proceedings or urgent matters involving Social Services. Vickie Brazier, based in Ipswich, is able to identify when legal aid is likely to be available and assist with the required evidence and application.
- Police Station / Initial Interview: THB’s criminal law team provides police station representation. In many cases, legal aid covers the right to free legal advice at the police station (or equivalent), and THB is able to offer that support.
- In their Family Law services description, THB state explicitly that “Family Legal Aid” is among the services they offer.
- Limits / Conditions: As with all firms accepting legal aid, assistance is not universal. It depends on whether the particular matter is within those legal areas which legal aid covers, whether the client meets the financial/moral tests, and whether the case merits legal aid. For non-eligible clients, or where legal aid is not available in a specific area, they offer private / fee-paying services.
Address:
32 Silent Street
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 1TF
https://thblegal.com/
Tel: 01473 226 577
Bates Wells & Braithwaite
29 Lower Brook Street
Ipswich
IP4 1AQ
Tel: 01473 219282
https://bates-wells.co.uk/
Kerseys
32 Lloyds Avenue
Ipswich
IP1 3HD
Tel: 01473 213311
www.kerseys.co.uk
National Family Mediation
Outreach service
Brightspace
160 Hadleigh Road
Ipswich
IP2 0HH
Tel: 0300 400 0636
www.nfm.org.uk
Taylor Haldane Barlex LLP
Hubbard Way
2 Civic Drive
Ipswich
IP1 2QA
Tel: 0845 293 7688
https://thblegal.com/