How we help you live better

Planning for the future with confidence

Drafting bespoke Wills to protect your assets and ensure your wishes are honoured. Creating Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) so trusted individuals can make decisions on your behalf if needed. Advising on Advance Decisions (Living Wills) to ensure your voice is heard in future medical treatment.

Protecting your rights and dignity

Representing vulnerable individuals in Court of Protection applications. Supporting clients with mental capacity assessments and ensuring lawful, respectful decision-making. Defending your interests in disputes over care, capacity, and best interest decisions.

Securing your family’s future

Advising on inheritance planning, lifetime gifts, and family trust creation. Helping resolve family disputes through sensitive but firm legal strategies. Supporting blended families and non-traditional arrangements with clear, legally binding solutions.

Navigating difficult times with support

Providing guidance in bereavement: probate, estate administration, and challenging unfair wills. Advocating for survivors of historic abuse or institutional failure, giving voice to those who were silenced.

Championing client autonomy and empowerment

Empowering clients with knowledge of their legal rights in healthcare, housing, and social care. Helping clients choose attorneys who align with their values and ensuring decisions meet the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice. Offering plain English advice so clients can make informed choices, not just legal ones.

A trusted legal partner for life

Flexible appointments in person, by phone, or online, tailored to your needs. A firm built on integrity, compassion, and professionalism, acting in your best interests.

Helping you make legal choices

We turn stressful legal to-do lists into clear plans with progress you can see

Your Needs

Linley James Solicitors is built on a simple idea: legal help should make life easier, not heavier. We work quietly in the background so you can get on with living.

With Linley James, you leave feeling:

  • Sorted. Stress removed. A clear plan, clear steps, and a clear finish line.
  • Protected. Risk reduced. The right documents and decisions in place before they’re needed.
  • Proved. Tangible evidence of progress. Not vague updates – completed outcomes.
  • Complete. A visible achievement. Done properly, documented, and ready when it matters.

Our lawyers are seasoned specialists – bringing calm, certainty, and results to every matter we handle.

Our Expertise

We don’t just practise this work—we help set the standard for it. One of our solicitors writes the legal textbooks other lawyers use in everyday practice. That expertise means you get:

  • Sorted. Clear advice, clear steps, and a clear finish.
  • Protected. The right safeguards in place, properly drafted.
  • Proved. Robust documentation and tangible progress at every stage.
  • Complete. A finished outcome you can rely on—and feel good about.

Craig Ward of Lundie is the author of Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents: Powers of Attorney (Vol 31, LexisNexis, 2021) and Lasting Powers of Attorney: A Practical Guide (4th ed., The Law Society, 2019).

For You

Linley James Solicitors turns legal problems into clear outcomes—so you can get back to living.

We help you leave feeling:

  • Sorted. Stress reduced, steps clarified, decisions made.
  • Protected. Risks anticipated and covered before they become problems.
  • Proved. Tangible progress and proper documentation you can rely on.
  • Complete. A finished result—properly done, properly recorded.

You can meet us at our Euston office, or we can arrange a home visit if that’s easier. If you’re facing a legal issue—or simply want a calm, expert review of your position—get in touch and we’ll map out the next steps.

From Legal Problem - to Finished Outcome

Legal Solutions

Safeguarding

Safeguarding

What are the problems Vulnerable Adult Disputes Disputes often arise over care, contact, money, residence, capacity or safeguarding, leaving families uncertain, professionals cautious, and vulnerable adults exposed to delay, pressure, …

LPA and Deputys

LPA and Deputys

What are the problems Lasting Powers of Attorney LPAs protect decisions if capacity is lost, but poor drafting, unsuitable attorneys, unclear preferences or family conflict can create confusion, delay, safeguarding …

Trusts

Trusts

What are the problems Types of Trusts Choosing the wrong trust can create tax problems, inflexibility, beneficiary disputes, poor asset protection or unnecessary administration, especially where family circumstances, business assets …

Probates

Probates

What are the problems Conducting Probate for You Probate can feel burdensome after bereavement, with forms, tax, estate accounts, beneficiaries, banks and deadlines creating pressure when executors need practical help, …

Coroners’ Inquests

Coroners’ Inquests

What are the problems Coroners’ Inquests Inquests can leave families facing unexplained deaths, incomplete records, conflicting accounts, medical uncertainty and unanswered questions, requiring focused preparation before important evidence, witnesses or …

Emergency Wills London – 0800 011 2070

Emergency Wills London – 0800 011 2070

Ideally when we come to the end of our lives we have made a will. Sometimes for many different reasons we have not but would like to make one. Linley …

End of Life

End of Life

What are the problems Will Review A will review identifies outdated gifts, missing beneficiaries, executor problems, tax risks, marriage, divorce, property changes or capacity concerns before disputes arise, ensuring intentions …

Disputes

What are the problems Civil Litigation Disputes over contracts, property, money, negligence or professional conduct can escalate quickly, requiring clear evidence, realistic strategy and decisive action before costs, delay and …

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Craig Ward of Lundie
Solicitor craig.ward@linleyjames.co.uk
Jeremy Taylor
Paralegal jeremy.taylor@linleyjames.co.uk
Peter Maughan
Solicitor contact@linleyjames.co.uk

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Assisted Dying

Legal Developments and Parliamentary Movement Assisted dying has once again re-emerged as a live issue in UK Parliament following political and public attention. Despite its legal prohibition under Section 2 …

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Probate Changes

As of January 2025 changes in the UK’s inheritance tax (IHT) laws are set to impact probate processes, particularly concerning non-UK domiciled individuals. Here’s an overview of the key updates: …

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LINLEY JAMES SOLICITORS

We provide legal advice you to help you make the right legal choices.

Civil Litigation, Court of Protection matters, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Probate and Contentious Probate resolutions. We also draft Lasting Powers of Attorney, Wills and Trusts, contracts and commercial documents.

Linley James Solicitors helping resolve your legal problems.



Contact Us

Linley James Solicitors
105a Euston Street
London
NW1 2EW
07943 160955
contact@linleyjames.co.uk