Published prices
Under the SRA Transparency Rules, firms offering residential conveyancing, probate and certain other services must publish their prices for that work. HM Legal Services Limited publishes these 21 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:Corporate and commercial lawCommercial propertyEmployment law and HRDispute and commercial debt recoveryConveyancingFamily and relationshipsWills and probateDisputing a willAs listed on the firm's own website, read 19 October 2026. The areas of law further down are what it reported to the SRA.
| Service | Price | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Selling a freehold property - example based on a sale price of £133,000[1] | from £1,950 | + VAT |
| Buying a freehold property - example based on a purchase price of £250,000[1] | from £1,950 | + VAT |
| Employment law hourly rate (varies with the experience of the lawyer)[2] | £250 to £350 per hour | + VAT |
| Unfair or wrongful dismissal claims - simple case[2] | £0 to £5,000 | + VAT |
| Unfair or wrongful dismissal claims - medium complexity case[2] | £0 to £10,000 | + VAT |
| Unfair or wrongful dismissal claims - high complexity case[2] | £0 to £15,000 | + VAT |
| Unfair or wrongful dismissal claims - additional charge for attending a Tribunal Hearing, per day[2] | £250 to £1,000 | + VAT |
| Will - standard Will for one person[3] | from £500 | + VAT |
| Will - standard mirror Wills, per pair[3] | from £650 | + VAT |
| Lasting Power of Attorney - packages[3] | from £600 | VAT not stated |
| Probate - extraction of the grant where there is no inheritance tax account[3] | £1000 | + VAT |
| Probate - extraction of the grant with IHT217 transfer of nil rate band[3] | £1200 | + VAT |
| Probate - extraction of the grant where inheritance tax is payable[3] | £1500 to £2000 | + VAT |
| Estate administration hourly rate[3] | £185 to £350 per hour | + VAT |
| Deed of Renunciation - standard[3] | £350 | + VAT |
| Deed of Variation[3] | £750 | + VAT |
| Will trusts - creation of a Life Interest Trust[3] | from £1,250 | + VAT |
| Will trusts - creation of a Discretionary Trust[3] | from £1,800 | + VAT |
| Will trusts - Deed of Appointment and / or Retirement of Trustees[3] | from £350 | + VAT |
| Will trusts - Trust Registration[3] | from £400 | + VAT |
| Commercial debt recovery - worked example: recovering a £1000 debt less than 12 months old[4] | £200 | VAT not stated |
From the firm's published price information at these pages, read 19 October 2026:
Key facts
- Authorisation
- Licensed body (ABS)
- Organisation type
- Licensed body (alternative business structure), authorised
- Constitution
- Incorporated company (limited by shares)
- Practising offices
- 4 (3 branches)
- Branch towns
- Birkenhead, Altrincham, Liverpool
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 10: Family, Residential property, Children, Litigation, Wills and trusts, Commercial property, Probate, Corporate (non-listed), Employment, Intellectual Property
- Published conveyancing prices
- Prices published hm3.legal found 28 August 2026
- Trading names
- HM3 Legal; Hillyer McKeown; HM Legal
- SRA firms in Cheshire West and Chester
- 67 (37 residential property)
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | Gorse Stacks House, George Street, Chester, CH1 3EQDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Cheshire West and Chester | 01244 318131 |
| Branch | 6 Abbots Quay, Monks Ferry, Birkenhead, CH41 5LHDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Wirral | 01244 318131 |
| Branch | Suite 3 Floor 3, Charter House, Woodlands Road, Altrincham, WA14 1HFDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Trafford | 01244 318131 |
| Branch | Exchange Station, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool, L2 2QPDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | Liverpool | 01244 318131 |
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 HM Legal Services Limited reports residential property work, it must publish its conveyancing price, charging basis, disbursements, VAT treatment and timescales on its website. The prices shown above, read 19 October 2026 from the firm's website, are for other services and do not include conveyancing. Its conveyancing price page is at hm3.legal (located 28 August 2026). Compare against the national average of £1,575 plus VAT and the disbursements you will pay on top.
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The SRA record carries no company registration number for this firm even though its constitution is recorded as incorporated company (limited by shares), so no Companies House record is cross-referenced.
HM Legal Services Limited in gold at Chester CH1 3EQ, its 3 other practising offices in navy, and the 5 nearest SRA-regulated firms in slate.
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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.