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Welcome

Burnetts Solicitors is one of the largest law firms in Northern England with offices in Carlisle, Penrith, West Cumbria and Newcastle, but our growth is not just down to our nationally recognised legal expertise.

Our real strength is in our approachable and accessible lawyers who are genuinely committed to looking after your interests, be they professional or personal. What’s more, our twin centres in Carlisle and Newcastle guarantee expert advice, tempered by good measures of Cumbrian nous and Geordie humour.

Whether you’re setting up a company, breaking up from a relationship, dismissing an employee or buying a new home, our solicitors will be beside you until the job is done because for us, it’s not just business, it’s personal.

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Business

Burnetts Solicitors in Carlisle, PenrithWhitehaven & Newcastle offers legal advice for businesses, as well as individuals.

For businesses and the public sector, our grounded and accessible lawyers offer advice on: debt recovery, commercial property, corporate & company law, dispute resolution, construction and engineering, employment law, planning advice and licensing.

The business team’s experience covers the private, public and voluntary sectors with particular specialisms in industries such as education, IT, professional services, transport, hospitality and tourism, charities, manufacturing, construction, energy and agriculture.

Whether you’re setting up a company, breaking up from a relationship, dismissing an employee or buying a new home, our solicitors will be beside you until the job is done because for us, it’s not just business, it’s personal.

Personal

Burnetts Solicitors in Carlisle, PenrithWhitehaven & Newcastle offers legal advice for individuals (private clients) as well as businesses.

Services for private clients include legal advice on: family matters like relationships and children; inheritance planning with will writing and trust creation; buying and selling houses through our Conveyancing department and dispute resolution.

Burnetts also has a team of medical lawyers, advising nationwide on cases of clinical negligence and a Personal Injury department with a particular expertise in compensation claims for catastrophic head injuries.

Burnetts' in-house financial advisor helps clients with their financial planning.

Whether you’re setting up a company, breaking up from a relationship, dismissing an employee or buying a new home, our committed and expert solicitors will be beside you until the job is done because for us, it’s not just business, it’s personal.

Specialist legal services

Burnetts Solicitors has developed an unrivalled specialism in legal services for the public sector In Cumbria. Our clients include local authorities such as Allerdale Borough Council, residential social landlords such as Riverside and education establishments beyond the County boundaries such as UCLan and Blackburn College. In the Legal 500, the annual guide to UK law firms, Burnetts is the only law firm in Cumbria to be recommended for its expertise in the public sector. The firm is nationally recognised in Chambers & Partners for its education law advice.

Our solicitors have a special understanding of this sector where attention to detail, reliability of service and, of course, consistently high quality of advice are critical. This understanding has been developed not just through our experience of working with the public sector, but in many cases our experience of working within the sector. Amongst our ranks are former workers from county councils, local authorities and education.

As well as our expertise in the public sector, Burnetts' solicitors also have niche specialisms in the tourism and charities sectors.

News

Brussels Bout for Burnetts’ Lawyer

A trainee solicitor from Cumbria has secured a six month secondment at the Law Society’s office in Brussels as part of this training. Ross Galbraith is employed by Burnetts in Carlisle and saw the opportunity advertised on the professional networking site Linked In

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Events

May
23
2013

Landlords Legal Update

Burnetts Penrith Office

This session will be hosted by Chartered Legal Executive and Head of Burnetts' Debt and Property Recovery team, Rob Winder.

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Online Tools

Burnetts have created a resource of online tools, including a redundancy pay calculator and a new legal insurance premium calculator.

Get an instant quotation for legal insurance should an employee bring a tribunal claim against you.

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Spotlight on Time to Pay with Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips

Towards the end of April 2013 the Government finally put legislation before Parliament explaining what it had in mind for Employment Tribunal (ET) fees.

The stated aim behind the shift away from the long-held principal that access to ET processes should be free is the Government’s wish to transfer some of the approximate £84m cost of running the ET system away from taxpayers and move more of that cost onto the users of that system. With that in mind, the Government has decided that those users who can afford to pay fees should do so if they want to take their workplace dispute to an ET.

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