Our legal services for individuals

Residential conveyancing

Whether you are buying, selling, or remortgaging, our conveyancing specialists at Fraser Dawbarns will ensure that you are fully updated about your transaction and the progress being made towards completion.

In addition to sales, purchases, and remortgages, we can advise on ownership transfers, tenancy agreements, and leaseholder services.

If you would like to discuss your property plans and find out how we could help you,  please contact our specialist residential conveyancing team in Downham Market.

Wills, tax planning, probate & estates

At Fraser Dawbarns, we have a strong team of specialists across Norfolk and Cambridgeshire who can help with all aspects of making a Will, drafting Lasting Powers of Attorney (both Property & Affairs and Health & Welfare), and related matters such as estate planning and Inheritance Tax.

We recognise that Will-related matters are not always straightforward and can involve sensitive family issues. Our approach to Will drafting is to support you to ensure that the final document represents your wishes exactly, within the bounds of what is legally possible.

Our solicitors can also assist with Court of Protection matters, obtaining a Grant of Representation and all aspects of probate.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss your individual situation and how we might help.

Divorce & family law

Our specialist family law solicitors provide bespoke advice on all aspects of divorce, civil partnership dissolution, separation and children-related matters.  Many of our clients come to us at a difficult time and need empathetic support as they seek to move on from an unsustainable family situation and obtain a suitable financial settlement.

However, we are also able to help with proactive family legal matters such as preparing prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements, and with change-of-name processes.

Please contact our experienced family law solicitors for individual advice.

Personal injury claims

If you have been injured due to an incident that was entirely or partially caused by someone else’s negligence, our team can help you bring a legal claim against them. Types of claims that we can help with include:

• Personal injury
• Motorcycle accident claims
• Workplace accidents
• Road traffic collisions
• Public liability claims
• Medical injury claims
• Employer liability claims.

We can also advise on non-injury claims, such as professional negligence. Please contact our experienced team to discuss your potential claim and how we might help.

Employment law for employees

If you are in a dispute with your employer, having legal support may well make the dispute process easier and result in a better outcome. At Fraser Dawbarns, we have extensive experience of helping a vast range of employees at all levels, including directors.

We appreciate that work-related issues are likely to majorly impact your life and well-being and, ideally, should be resolved as quickly as possible. Our lawyers will be proactive and supportive, ensuring your questions and concerns are handled promptly and sensitively.

Our lawyers can advise on a wide range of employment matters, from discrimination to unfair dismissal, redundancy to harassment, settlement agreements, and more.

To discuss your individual employment law issue and find out how we might help, please contact our specialist lawyers at Fraser Dawbarns.

Legal claims

Legal disputes come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.  While Court proceedings are sometimes necessary, our team of dispute resolution solicitors will often be able to help you find an out-of-court solution, whether through standard negotiation or alternative dispute resolution methods. If your dispute cannot be resolved by going to Court, we can represent you as necessary.

Our specialist solicitors can offer support with a wide range of legal disputes, including:

• Will & estate disputes
• Power of Attorney disputes
• Inheritance disputes
• Deprivation of liberty.

If you have an ongoing dispute and would like to discuss how we can help, please contact us.

Our legal services for businesses

Corporate and commercial law

We have significant experience across our Norfolk and Cambridgeshire offices in various corporate and commercial law matters. Whether your business is long-established or a start-up, we can advise on matters such as business structures or joint ventures and help you prepare the necessary documentation to protect your interests. This might include partnership or shareholder agreements, general terms of business, agency agreements, and distribution agreements.

We can also advise on buying or selling an established business and will work with other teams at Fraser Dawbarns to support you in all aspects of this. Depending on the nature of the business and your plans, this might include transferring employees with the business, making them redundant, and buying, selling, or leasing commercial premises.

If you have a project or business structure change in mind or know that your contracts or agreements need to be reviewed, please call us to discuss how we might help.

Dispute resolution

Commercial disputes can be very disruptive to a business. Obtaining a satisfactory outcome as quickly as possible, ideally through alternative dispute resolution rather than Court, is usually preferable.

We can help with many corporate disputes, including partnerships, shareholder contracts, debt recovery, employment law issues, and more.

Where possible, we will help businesses resolve their disputes through negotiation, collaborative law or mediation. Nevertheless, if necessary, we will handle your dispute through the Courts if this is required to get an acceptable outcome.

If you think we might be able to help you resolve a current dispute, please get in touch.

Commercial property

We have a large team of commercial property lawyers across the region with strong cumulative expertise. They work with developers, investors, commercial landlords and tenants, providing support with many aspects of commercial property law. For instance, Fraser Dawbarns can assist with purchasing or selling commercial land or premises, taking on or renewing a commercial lease, planning and development, and more.

To discuss how we might be able to assist you, get in touch with our commercial property law team.

Employment law

Our employment law niche continues to grow, and our solicitors who act for employers have extensive experience and expertise in their field. We advise commercial organisations of all sizes on a wide range of employment matters.

Our proactive approach includes preparing or updating contracts, handbooks, and policies. From a problem-solving viewpoint, we regularly deal with settlement agreements, discrimination claims, unfair dismissal, disciplinary and grievance matters, and TUPE.

We have the knowledge to help you safeguard your interests, as well as ensure legal compliance.  If you would like to discuss an employment law issue with us, please get in touch.  You can also sign up to receive our regular employment law newsletter by emailing marketing@fraserdawbarns.com

Agriculture and Renewables Energy

With offices in King’s Lynn, Downham Market, Wisbech, March and Ely, Fraser Dawbarns has solicitors who are well-placed to help farmers and landowners with a wide range of issues that may affect them.

We have been assisting some farming businesses for many years, but are regularly seeing enquiries from new clients as our reputation for this area of law grows.

Agriculture law issues often require specialised legal support. We understand the potential issues that can arise when buying and selling farmland, creating agricultural tenancies, passing on a family farming business or undertaking on-farm diversification.

We continue to advise farmers and landowners, both locally and further afield, who have been approached by developers about using their land for renewable energy projects.

Please contact our specialist solicitors if you would like individual advice for your farming business on any aspect of agricultural law or related renewable energy projects.

How to find our solicitors in Downham Market, Norfolk

Reach us by car

Our Downham Market office is very close to the Tesco car park, which currently offers up to three hours of free parking. Alternatively, we are a few minutes’ walk from free all-day parking at the Howdale Road car park.

Reach us by train

If you are travelling to us by train, the closest train station is Downham Market Train Station which is a 15-minute walk from our office.

Plan your journey

You can plan your journey to our solicitors in Downham Market here.

Accessibility

At Fraser Dawbarns, we are committed to ensuring that our legal services are as accessible as possible and making any necessary adjustments that clients may need.

If you do have any specific accessibility requirements, please contact us to discuss how we can help.

Get in touch with our solicitors in Downham Market, Norfolk

If you require any of our legal services, please get in touch with our solicitors in Downham Market, Norfolk. You can call us on 01366 383171 or fill out our simple contact form to request a call back.