JUDGE AND PRIESTLEY LLP

We have been advised by Judge&Priestley Solicitors for our home sale and purchase transactions. The team led by Mrs Brooke Stevens acted in a very professional manner, quick , polite , helpful and supportive. We highly appreciated their intervention to protect our interests, even though we were inclined to compromise.

Thank you Brooke and Hyaah for your excellent work!

I highly recommend working with Mrs Brooke Stevens at J&P!

Sweta Chhantyal and James Ray did the conveyancing of my property sale.
I was impressed with the efficiency of the process.
They responded quickly if I had a query and they sent out relevant documents well on time. They helped complete the sale with no hitches.
I guessed they would be good at their job when I made initial queries before taking them on. They responded quickly with clear information about what they would do. Other solicitors that I approached did not respond with the same rapidity or clarity.

We worked with James Ray and his team on the sale of my Mum's house and were very pleased with the service. We had originally started work with another firm, but found them very difficult to work with as they seemed to be using very junior staff who didn't know what they were doing. By contrast, James and his team were very knowledgeable, straightorward in their approach and a pleasure to work with. Highly recommended.

My wife and I recently moved house from Sidcup in Kent, where we had lived at the same address for over 50 years, to Lichfield in Staffordshire.

The conveyancing was dealt with by Mr James Ray, who is now a Partner in the firm. It was not an easy ride, taking just under two years from commencement in August 2023 to completion in early July this year. Mr Ray was a rock and anchor of stability throughout, and supported us through a long and tortuous process during which we lost two sets of buyers and two properties in Lichfield, all for reasons completely beyond our or Mr Ray's control.

We are now happily settled in to our new home, and will be ever grateful to Judge & Priestley in general and Mr Ray in particular for making it happen.

James Ray was our solicitor for the sale of our house and our onward purchase. He has been exceptional from start to finish! I’d highly recommend Judge & Priestley Sidcup. James has been very helpful in explaining all of the law jargon and keeping us up to date at every step, he’s very good at answering the phone and will always call you back extremely quickly if he’s not available. James would reply to my numerous emails within 24hrs which was very much appreciated! It’s hard to find such a good solicitor who has great communication and doesn’t take weeks to reply! He was excellent at chasing up both our sale and purchase. Even on the odd occasion when James was out of office there were other employees such as Brooke Stevens who would update you and call the onward solicitors to get an update - everyone at the office has been very friendly and easy to deal with! There was an enquiry on our onward purchase that was more complicated than we had hoped but James was great at chasing up information and pushing back on the solicitors to ensure we got the best legal outcome and weren’t just palmed off. Thank you very much, we will definitely be using your firm in the future and really appreciate your patience and excellent communication (hopefully we won’t be moving house anytime soon!)