Published prices
Under the SRA Transparency Rules, firms offering residential conveyancing, probate and certain other services must publish their prices for that work. McHale Legal Limited publishes these 22 prices on its own website. The figures below are copied as the firm prints them. For your own matter, ask the firm for a written quote that includes disbursements.
What the firm offers:Bridging financeClinical negligenceContentious probateCriminal and motoring offencesDispute resolutionDivorce and family lawEmployment lawInheritance Act claimsPersonal injury claimsPersonal insolvency and bankruptcyResidential propertyWills, LPAs and probateWills and inheritance disputesBusiness acquisitions and salesCorporate lawCommercial property and utilitiesConstruction and engineeringSports lawAs listed on the firm's own website, read 16 October 2026. The areas of law further down are what it reported to the SRA.
| Service | Price | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Divorce - petitioner fixed fee, legal costs[1] | £650.00 | + VAT |
| Divorce - respondent fixed fee, legal costs[1] | £350.00 | + VAT |
| Living together agreement - usual fixed fee, legal costs[2] | £750.00 | + VAT |
| Living together agreement - fixed fee on referral from the conveyancing department, legal costs[2] | £550.00 | + VAT |
| Band | Fee | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| £0 – £200,000.00 | £1,250 | + VAT |
| £200,000.01- £400,000.00 | £1,550 | + VAT |
| £400,000.01- £600,000.00 | £1,850 | + VAT |
| £600,000.01- £800,000.00 | £2,150.00 | + VAT |
| £800,000.01- £1,000,000.00 | £2,350 | + VAT |
| Over £1,000,000 | 0.3% of sale price | + VAT |
| Service | Price | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Residential sale - further fee for an apartment or leasehold transaction[3] | £450.00 | + VAT |
| Residential sale - further fee for a shared ownership transaction[3] | £200.00 | + VAT |
| Residential sale - charging rate for properties priced at £1,000,000.00 or more[3] | £400.00 per hour | + VAT |
| Residential sale - typical additional fee, leasehold[3] | £350.00 | + VAT |
| Residential sale - typical additional fee, unregistered title[3] | £300.00 | + VAT |
| Residential sale - typical additional fee, mortgage redemption[3] | £30.00 | + VAT |
| Probate - banded charging rate A, directors, solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience[4] | £300 to £400 per hour | VAT not stated |
| Probate - banded charging rate B, solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ experience[4] | £250 to £300 per hour | VAT not stated |
| Probate - banded charging rate C, other solicitors or legal executives with less than 4 years’ experience, trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners[4] | £150 to £250 per hour | VAT not stated |
| Probate - banded charging rate D1, legal assistants[4] | £150 to £200 per hour | VAT not stated |
| Probate - small estate, full estate service[4] | £3850 to £7000 | + VAT |
| Probate - more complex estates, full estate service[4] | £15000 to £30000 | + VAT |
| Probate - grant only service, estate where no IHT is due[4] | £995 | + VAT |
| Employment tribunal - unfair or wrongful dismissal claims, low complexity[5] | £7,000 to £11,000 | + VAT |
| Employment tribunal - unfair or wrongful dismissal claims, medium complexity[5] | £11,000 to £20,000 | + VAT |
| Employment tribunal - unfair or wrongful dismissal claims, high complexity[5] | £20,000 to £50,000 | + VAT |
| Employment tribunal - hourly rate, head of department[5] | £360 per hour | + VAT |
Some figures on the firm's page do not agree with each other; the table follows the page as printed.
From the firm's published price information at these pages, read 16 October 2026:
- [1]mchaleandco.co.uk/solicitors-for-you/divorce-family-law/divorce/divorce-fixed-fees
- [2]mchaleandco.co.uk/solicitors-for-you/divorce-family-law/co-habitation-issues/living-together-agreements-fixed-fee
- [3]mchaleandco.co.uk/rates/residential-sale
- [4]mchaleandco.co.uk/rates/probate
- [5]mchaleandco.co.uk/rates/employment-tribunals
Key facts
- Authorisation
- Licensed body (ABS)
- Organisation type
- Licensed body (alternative business structure), authorised
- Constitution
- Incorporated company (limited by shares)
- Practising offices
- 7 (6 branches)
- Branch towns
- Heywood, Altrincham, Solihull, London
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 10: Personal Injury, Landlord and tenant, Family, Commercial property, Criminal, Litigation, Residential property, Corporate (non-listed), Employment, Wills and trusts
- Companies House status
- Active (08291839, file 1 May 2026)
- Incorporated
- 13 November 2012
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Trading names
- McHale & Co Solicitors; Waldron & Schofield Solicitors; McHale & Company Solicitors; MCH Legal; The Biker Lawyers
- Previous names (SRA)
- McHale Muldoon Limited
- SRA firms in Trafford
- 79 (36 residential property)
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | 19-21 High Street, Altrincham, WA14 1QPDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Trafford | 0161 928 3848 |
| Branch | 25 York Street, Heywood, OL10 4NNDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Rochdale | 01706 624029 |
| Branch | 19-21 High Street, Altrincham, WA14 1QPDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Trafford | 0161 865 2267 |
| Branch | 25 York Street, Heywood, OL10 4NNDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Rochdale | 0161 653 5299 |
| Branch | Central Boulevard, Blythe Valley Business Park, Blythe Valley Park, Shirley, Solihull, B90 8AGDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Solihull | 0161 928 3848 |
| Branch | 1st Floor, Ealing Cross, 85 Uxbridge Road, London, W5 5THDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Ealing | 0161 928 3848 |
| Branch | Suites 5 & 6, Warrant House, 1 High Street, Altrincham, WA14 1PZDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Trafford | |
| Registered office | 19-21 High Street, Altrincham, WA14 1QP | not a practising office |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Because McHale Legal Limited reports residential property work, it must publish its conveyancing price, charging basis, disbursements, VAT treatment and timescales on its website. This firm's published conveyancing prices are shown above, read 16 October 2026 from its website. Check the firm's own page at mchaleandco.co.uk for any update before instructing it. Compare against the national average of £1,575 plus VAT and the disbursements you will pay on top.
Comparing conveyancers? Compare conveyancing quotes from reallymoving's panel, free and with no obligation.
Get conveyancing quotesQuotes are provided by reallymoving, not by SolicitorCost and not by the firm on this page; firms on reallymoving's panel are not vetted or ranked by us. We earn a fee if you complete a quote request; it never affects any figure or listing on this site.
Companies House record
MCHALE LEGAL LIMITED, company number 08291839, private limited company, incorporated 13 November 2012. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Last accounts made up to 31 May 2025 (total exemption full). Registered office town: ALTRINCHAM. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.
Companies House also lists 1 earlier registered name, most recently MCHALE MULDOON LIMITED.
McHale Legal Limited in gold at Altrincham WA14 1QP, its 6 other practising offices in navy, and the 5 nearest SRA-regulated firms in slate.
Outline: no outline drawn; fitted to the plotted offices.
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearest SRA-regulated firms
- MLP Law Limited · Altrincham · residential propertysame postcode
- Hale Family Law Ltd · Altrinchamsame postcode
- Land Law LLP · Altrincham · residential propertysame postcode
- Hilton Law · Cheshiresame postcode
- Hill and Company Solicitors · Altrincham · residential property100 m
Hover a firm to find it on the map above. Distances are straight line from head office to head office.
solicitorcost.com includes data supplied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 3 November 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.