Our Accreditations and Memberships

Law Society accreditations

Our Law Society accreditations recognise the high standards of our legal services across a number of specialist areas.

Conveyancing Quality Scheme

Our property team have been recognised by the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) for the reliable, effective service we offer for various types of property transactions, including buying and selling property, remortgaging and transfer of equity.

Family Law Advanced

This accreditation reflects our expertise in more challenging areas of family law, including dealing with complex financial settlements, cohabitation and international family law matters.

Jayne Chandler is a member of the Law Society Family Panel and Family Law Advanced Panel.

Children Law

This accreditation shows we have the skills and experience to effectively deal with all areas of children law and to effectively represent children in legal matters.

Julianne Hamling and Rhian Parsons are members of the Law Society Child Care Panel.

Criminal Litigation

This accreditation shows we have demonstrated through independent assessment the knowledge, skills, experience and practice needed for criminal litigation.

Paul Philpott is accredited in Criminal Litigation.

Ben Waters is accredited in Criminal Litigation with higher courts rights.

Lexcel

hpjv solicitors has been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel accreditation in recognition of our excellent practice management and client care.

Lexcel is the Law Society's legal practice quality mark promoting a quality management approach for client service and how to run a legal practice. It provides a flexible, supportive management framework to help practices develop consistent operational efficiencies and client services, manage risk effectively, reduce costs and promote profitability.

Lexcel sets the required Standard in seven different areas: structure and strategy, financial management, information management, people management, risk management, client care, file and case management. Lexcel scheme rules outline the design, principles and governance processes of the scheme.

Practices and organisations accredited against the Standard have the flexibility to implement procedures that are appropriate to their circumstances.

The Lexcel scheme enables us to achieve consistent levels of client service across our practice, reduce the number of client complaints and increase overall satisfaction levels among clients.

Professional memberships

Resolution

Resolution works to remove conflict from dealing with family legal matters, providing training and support to family lawyers and promoting Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) including mediation and collaborative law.

Ashleigh Woodward is a Resolution member and has also recently joined the Young Resolution Committee.

Regulation

hpjv solicitors is independently regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).