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Nick Gutteridge

Grounded and expert legal advice for individuals, businesses and the public sector

  • Business

    Exceptional legal expertise for your business

    We specialise in the banking, property, tourism, education and charity sectors and can provide your business with legal advice on everything from commercial property, construction, procurement and planning law, to employment, HR, dispute resolution, landlord and tenant matters, debt recovery and company commercial issues.

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  • Personal

    Expert legal advice for individuals

    We can support you with family law matters, will writing, trust creation, buying and selling houses, medical negligence issues, employment and HR issues and dispute resolution.

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  • Dispute Resolution

    The best course of action towards the most positive outcome

    We can advise you through commercial and private disputes, including contract matters, shareholder and director issues, professional negligence, inheritance act claims, partnership disputes and education matters.

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  • Medical Negligence & Serious Injury

    Specialist practitioners, experienced in clinical negligence

    Our team is caring, passionate and has a wealth of experience, specialising in medical negligence and serious injury, with a strong focus on complex neonatal, brain injury and spinal injury cases.

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  • Agribusiness

    We know the industry inside out

    We work with everyone, from farmers and estate owners, to tenant farmers and smallholders. We pride ourselves on cutting through the jargon and delivering a comprehensive, fast and agile service in order to get things done.

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  • Family

    A trusted, helping hand for family matters

    Our Family Team specialises in divorce and its financial implications, financial guidance for married and unmarried couples and cases involving children. It frequently handles divorce cases which involve one or both parties running their own business in the farming, industrial or services sectors.

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  • Commercial Property

    Buying, selling, leasing land and property

    We can help you with all aspects of commercial property transactions and are particularly recognised for our expertise in portfolio management, the leisure and tourism sector, landlord and tenant work, commercial and residential development projects and SIPP/SASS property transactions.

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  • Banking and Property Finance

    Specialist support for lenders

    We advise lenders and their customers on a wide range of facility agreements and different security packages, including charges against commercial and residential properties and development sites.

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Grounded and expert legal advice for individuals, businesses and the public sector.

Welcome to Burnetts. We provide grounded and expert legal advice to individuals, businesses and the public sector.

We are one of the biggest law firms in Northern England, with offices in Carlisle, Cockermouth and Newcastle, but our growth isn’t just down to our legal expertise: our real strength is our approachable, accessible solicitors who are genuinely committed to looking after your interests, be they professional or personal.

Our team is nationally recognised and accredited and provides specialist legal advice, tempered with good measures of Cumbrian nous and Geordie humour.

We are accredited by the Law Society for the quality of our advice and our solicitors have also been recognised by prestigious national guides to the legal profession, including the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Whether you’re setting up a new company, leaving a relationship, managing a poor performer, or buying a new home, whatever your needs, we will provide a trusted, guiding hand throughout the process until the job is done.

Meet our team
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Our Locations

Carlisle (Head Office)

Victoria House
Wavell Drive
Rosehill
Carlisle
CA1 2ST

Tel: 01228 552222
Fax: 01228 522399
DX 63005 CARLISLE

Cockermouth

3a Lakeland Business Park
Lamplugh Road
Cockermouth
CA13 0QT

Tel: 01900 510366
Fax: 01900 823701
DX 324701 COCKERMOUTH 2

Newcastle

Milburn House
Dean Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 1LE

Tel: 0191 300 1833
Fax: 0191 285 2058
DX 61027 NEWCASTLE

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Our vision, mission & values

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Core Values

These are the values we live by in our day-to-day work, the things that set us apart. For you, they result in specialist legal advice which is always accessible, expert solicitors that are always approachable and a dedicated service which is always efficient.

Accessible

Accessible

Committed

Committed

Expert

Expert

Grounded

Grounded