ALFRED NEWTON SOLICITORS

They need to stop asking for everything in the post. It’s 2026. Other firms don’t do that anymore and it’s really inconvenient for most people.

Although I thought the actual firm was okay, (sometimes a little slow at dealing with things and emails etc when you need them to), it was actually the barristers that were a total let down.
I think I would have been better represented by my paralegal, Charlotte Kerr, during my hearings instead of unprepared barristers who stepped in and made some mammoth errors.
The advice Charlotte had been giving me for months was consistent and made a lot more sense than the advice given to me by the barristers prior and during the hearings.
My guess is that the barristers were giving advice based on what made their jobs easier, however they aren't being paid thousands to have an easy ride.
The barrister who represented me for the final hearing, Georgia Griffiths, was threatening me with what could have been a potential 'shared care' arrangement for a 17 month old breastfed baby who had never spent a night away from her mother. I am struggling to see what judge would order a baby under 2 be taken from their mother, not to mention the proven safeguarding issues with the fathers side, involving chronic substance misuse, social services restrictions, an incident and a chronic excessive test result only 8 months prior to this hearing. If the barrister does not even know how to secure a majority care for the mother in a case as such, this is very concerning. Aside from this the mother was not at work and the father working full time therefore unable to care for the baby.
Even before the father's chronic excessive alcohol test result, many legal experts had said the case would never be one of a shared care.
The barrister also contradicted herself by claiming that if the mother was to oppose the Cafcass recommendations, then custody could go more in favour of the father, even though it was clear I was a genuiely concerned mother, and was not suddenly going to trust a proven alcoholic with my baby unsupervised. However, at the same time she claimed that the father's abusive behaviour and false allegations as well as proven contempt of court, would not go against him since the courts do not care about these things?
On top of this, the same barrister had not read the cafcass recommendations properly before negotiations and so gave the father an extra full day with the baby. The recommendations were from wed eve till Fri morning and she negotiated until 6pm on a Friday, which would have drastically shortened my weekend with my daughter, meaning I could never spend Friday nights with her. This also would have made my life incredibly inconvenient.
I reiterate, this barrister was being paid to represent me but made every effort to get a much better deal for the father which seemed very odd indeed. Rather than apologising for this and trying to redeem her mistake she actually tried to bully me into accepting it... Claiming 'the judge would say "Make it work"', which really wasn't a good attitude.
There were other things such as trying to gain him more access on Christmas day unnecessarily, shaming me for booking holidays with my daughter when I was always told by paralegals, solicitors, barristers, support workers that the 'live with order' would be in the bag, as was originally recommend by Cafcass until the father showed only a few months worth of reduced alcohol consumption.
I apparently had to make all of his time up to him, however the same did not need to be reciprocated. Ensuring he had long weekends but almost preventing me from the same luxury.
I definitely would not recommend this barrister and I think the firm should stick to using their own team.

We have recently used Alfred Newton Stockport services for conveyancing when selling and buying our property.
Danielle and Joanne were amazing, it was a long road with ups and downs, we wouldn't be in our new home without them.
Excellent communication throughout process.
Highly recommend their services.

Alfred Newton have been professional and responsive in the two years that I have employed their services. My main solicitor was Janine Murphy who has been consistently proactive, turning around responses within a day. I have had contact with a number of other partners and associates within the firm and found the communication to be second to none on every occasion, which is often not the case with some other legal practices. I would have no hesitation in recommending Alfred Newton.

ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING ! I sincerely hope nobody chooses this firm. Never met a place so dismissive, insensitive, rude and all round uncaring to their client's needs and requirements. I genuinely hope people find a better firm to avoid such upset and disappointment.

The client has paid for a service and support. Only to be discriminated against their protected characteristic after James gave an incorrect medical diagnosis of disability and won't even speak to the client that has paid for a service.

Discriminating against disability is an apparent value of this firm?