Founded in 1875, the firm has a strong heritage of results, with a dedicated and specialist team who have earned a reputation for excellence, value and customer service.
Trusted by generations, the firm is continuously recognised as one of the UK’s leading law firms by the Legal 500.
The team are award-winning in the fields of Family Law, Private Client, Contentious Probate, Disputed Inheritance, and challenging Wills, and pride themselves on their client-first approach.
Bell and Buxton’s family law team is headed by Demelza Wrigley. Demelza is a highly experienced and well-regarded Sheffield family law solicitor who won the Family Law Award at the 2017 Yorkshire Legal Awards.
Demelza and her team specialise in all family law matters and pride themselves on being legally knowledgeable, accessible and ready to fight your case. They take the time to understand what you want to achieve and work hard to achieve the best resolution for you and your family.
We have a reputation for working with clients to resolve a wide range of family law issues, from pre-nuptial agreements to more specialist areas involving same-sex relationships and foreign jurisdictions. Whilst we try to keep disputes out of court where ever possible, sometimes this is unavoidable, and we have experience of taking complex and difficult cases to the Court of Appeal.
We offer all clients a free initial appointment and have a range of fixed fee ‘divorce only’ packages to suit all budgets and requirements.
Transparency on the issue of legal fees is guaranteed, with clear costs breakdowns provided from the outset and throughout the duration of your case.
Bell and Buxton’s private client team has a long-established and highly-regarded reputation for their expertise in Wills and Probate work. The firm is recommended in The Legal 500 for its expertise in personal tax, trusts and probate and won the Private Client Award at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2021.
We are trusted legal advisors and work closely with our commercial department to provide a holistic service for clients. Our approach is praised by clients, who highlight the ‘depth and breadth’ of the ‘one stop shop’ offering – The Legal 500. Our team of lawyers regularly handle probate and inheritance planning, and lasting powers of attorney, in addition to wills and probate matters with multi-jurisdictional aspects and overseas assets. Several of our solicitors are recommended Legal 500 Lawyers with the team being described as ‘courteous, knowledgeable and experienced.’
When it comes to choosing a law firm to advise you on business and corporate transactions it’s important to be confident in not just the legal expertise of your lawyers, but also the service you will receive.
Our expert lawyers pride themselves on providing a service that’s responsive, commercially astute and on budget. We are recommended by The Legal 500 2020 within Sheffield and South Yorkshire for providing corporate and commercial legal services. Our clients comment that we ‘provide an excellent service and work closely with the client to ensure its best interests are followed through to completion’ – The Legal 500 2020.
We ensure that we listen carefully to what you want to achieve and understand your individual business circumstances to ensure that you achieve your business goals and protect your commercial interests. Clients feel that we ‘never let clients down in terms of efficiency and the general process’ – The Legal 500 2020.
By helping clients to flourish we naturally develop long-term working relationships and become trusted legal advisors to those who instruct us.
Whether you are buying or selling a property, our conveyancing solicitors combine a strong working knowledge of the regions property market with outstanding communication skills to deliver a first-class service to clients.
Bell and Buxton Solicitors have been accredited by the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme since 2013. This scheme recognises law firms who demonstrate professional excellence for their conveyancing services. It means you can be confident that you are using a law firm that is experienced in all aspects of residential conveyancing and who provide a high-quality service.
We have developed a unique residential conveyancing fee structure which enables you to cherry pick the service you receive depending on your needs and budgets. Our open and honest approach to conveyancing costs gives you control of the purse strings at a time when you need it the most.
Whether you have a management role in a company or you’re an employee, getting timely and expert advice on employment law issues can be critical. At Bell and Buxton Solicitors we are committed to providing authoritative, practical and expedient advice to all our clients.
We have a broad experience of employment law that includes not only litigation at Employment Tribunal, but also providing advice to clients regarding non-contentious issues (such as Contracts of Employment, Directors Service Contracts and redundancy/dismissal procedures) which may help to avoid or limit disputes in the future.
Our employment law solicitors, based in Sheffield, provide advice and representation to either employers or employees on the following issues:
Sheffield and its neighbouring towns have a rich heritage and world-wide reputation of innovation and creativity across a wide range of sectors. Protecting the rights of what a business or individual has created requires specialist legal knowledge, and we have a team of expert solicitors who can advise on patents, trademarks, copyright, and design rights.
Many businesses are unaware of the variety of Intellectual Property rights that are available, or which may affect their business. If your business involves the creation of original work of any kind, whether that’s a new product, design or service, then you need to be taking steps to protect your most asset.
We advise clients in the initial stages of any potential clash of rights as well as advising on Intellectual Property audits, general protection, and various registration matters.
Any individual or business can find themselves involved in disputes whether they are customers, suppliers, advisers or with colleagues/staff within an organisation. Dealing with those disputes can tie up valuable management time, damage reputation and commercial relationships as well as involving significant financial outlay.
Bell and Buxton’s key focus is to seek to resolve client disputes as quickly and as commercially as possible. We are recommended in The Legal 500 2020 for our expertise in this field. Our team are described as having an ‘in-depth knowledge of the local market’ and for being ‘extremely understanding and reassuring, giving clients confidence in its ability to fight their corner’.
We work with our clients to quickly understand the issues involved in the dispute and to assist you in devising a strategy that will meet your commercial objectives, as well as being both realistic and cost effective.
We offer a clear and transparent approach on costs, as well as a range of funding options. Our approach will not be limited simply to progressing the matter via the Court, quite the contrary. Our commercial litigation lawyers provide assistance by way of direct negotiations between the parties, mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Given the time and financial commitment involved in Court action, we very much see it as an option of last resort. However, if Court proceedings are unavoidable, our skilled litigators always handle court cases with the diligence and robustness they deserve.
In addition to dealing with disputes which have already arisen, we are also firmly committed to the premise that “prevention is better than cure”. As a result, we always provide our clients with commercially aware advice, designed to reduce the risk of similar disputes occurring in the future.
Our dispute resolution services cover a broad spectrum of disputes and our solicitors have extensive experience of both procedure and practice of litigation as well as property, corporate/commercial, intellectual property and employment matters.
