About SolicitorCost.com

Independent UK guide to solicitor costs across every legal service. Real fee ranges from published gov.uk, SRA, and judiciary sources. Last full review: October 2026.

Why this site exists

UK consumers searching for solicitor costs typically land on a mix of Unbiased, comparemymove, MoneyHelper, and the Law Society itself. Those pages are useful starting points but tend to lack two things: a regional drilldown (London partner rates differ from a Newcastle high-street firm by a factor of 4), and worked examples that show how solicitor time and disbursements actually combine into the figure on your invoice.

SolicitorCost.com fills that gap. Every page is built around the published 2026 figures from the Guideline Hourly Rates approved by the Master of the Rolls, the HMCTS Fees Order, the Legal Aid Agency means thresholds, and HM Land Registry fee schedules. Where private market rates differ meaningfully from those guidelines (City of London especially), we quote the prices named firms publish on their own websites under the SRA Transparency Rules, with the date we read each page, rather than an estimate of the market.

Who runs it

SolicitorCost.com is a Digital Signet site. Digital Signet is a one-person research and publishing operation run by Oliver Wakefield-Smith, focused on UK and US consumer cost data. Other Digital Signet sites you may have seen include StampDutyRate.com, NHSDentistCost.com, and PassportRenewalCost.com.

I am not a solicitor and this site is not a law firm. I commission no advertorial content, and no law firm can pay for placement, ranking or coverage. The site carries one labelled partner relationship: an optional get-quotes form provided by reallymoving, a quote marketplace, which pays us a fee per completed quote request and never changes a figure, a listing or a ranking here. A firm can pay for an Enhanced listing, which adds its own words to its own page and is labelled as supplied by the firm; it buys no position, changes no cost figure, and is set out below. Beyond that, links to external services point to gov.uk, the Law Society's SRA Find a Solicitor service (a free public directory), and other Digital Signet cost guides.

Editorial framework

No email gate. Forms only if you choose them. You read, you leave. Two forms collect details, and only when you ask: reallymoving's conveyancing quote form, which loads only if you click for it and sends your details to reallymoving, not us; and our own Get quotes form for divorce, wills, probate and business matters, which asks for your name, email and town so we can introduce you to up to three local firms, with your consent. How we handle those details is in the privacy policy.
No firm pays to be listed, or to rank. Every authorised firm is here from the SRA feed whether it wants to be or not, and nothing a firm can buy changes the order of any list, the SRA record or a cost figure on this site. A claimed firm may pay to add its own description (Enhanced), clearly labelled as supplied by the firm. Position on this site is not for sale at any price.
One disclosed partner, no hidden links. Apart from the labelled reallymoving quote form, every outbound link points to gov.uk, the SRA register, or a Digital Signet site on an adjacent topic, unpaid.
Inline citations. Every cost figure is traceable to its source.
Single-source-of-truth dating. A single LAST_VERIFIED_DATE constant drives every "Updated" stamp on the site. When we re-verify, every page flips together.

Source data

The numbers on this site are drawn from these UK public sources:

Guideline Hourly Rates 2026 (gov.uk/government/publications/solicitors-guideline-hourly-rates) for all hourly-rate figures.
HMCTS Fees Order 2008 and subsequent amendments (gov.uk/court-fees-what-they-are) for court fees.
Legal Aid Agency means thresholds (gov.uk/check-legal-aid) for legal-aid eligibility figures.
HM Land Registry fee schedule (gov.uk/government/publications/registration-services-fees) for conveyancing disbursements.
Office of the Public Guardian fees (gov.uk/power-of-attorney/register) for LPA registration.
HMRC SDLT rates (gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax/residential-property-rates) for conveyancing tax calculations.
Firms' own price pages, published under the SRA Transparency Rules, for private-market rates above and below the GHR figures. Each is attributed to the named firm with a read date.
SRA Find a Solicitor (solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk) for the public solicitor register.

For the detailed methodology and update cadence, see our methodology page.

Not legal advice

Nothing on this site is legal advice. The figures are indicative cost ranges drawn from public data. They are not a substitute for a written quote from a regulated solicitor, and they are not a substitute for legal advice on your specific situation. If you need legal advice, instruct a solicitor registered with the SRA (or the Law Society of Scotland / Northern Ireland) or use one of the free services listed in our cheap solicitor guide.

Contact

Corrections, source disputes, or polite complaints: oliver@digitalsignet.com. We typically respond inside two working days. If you spot a figure that conflicts with a current gov.uk source, please include the URL and we will update it on the next refresh cycle.