About Us

Thank you for visiting our website.

I founded Bedfords in 1996 with the aim of providing innovative services to clients at affordable prices. We are a small practice based in Somerset dealing with customers and clients Nationwide. With the aid of technology we have been able to cut out the bureaucracy, administrative cost and delay often associated with the more traditional practice and bring a fresh approach to legal problems.

Our philosophy is simple;

to provide legal services of excellent quality at a fair price;

to be transparent, open and up front about costs;

to make it as easy and convenient as possible for people to obtain legal help;

The idea of an online law shop is borne out of this philosophy. We are all familiar with purchasing goods and services in relation to most areas of our daily lives - why not legal help? It is perfectly understandable that we want to know in advance the exact cost of something we are thinking of buying, yet for so long clients have been offered only hourly rates. Whilst such time-costing is certainly appropriate in some cases it does often leave clients very much in the dark about their potential liabilities and can of course lead to problems.

Our solution is to provide a starting point for legal assistance based on pre-determined fixed cost. If it is necessary at a later stage to revert to hourly rates (only after agreement with you) then so be it. In this way you, the customer, are empowered to make an informed choice without risk of a 'bottomless pit' of legal costs. Moreover it is a quick and convenient method of obtaining legal help - because all online services are dealt with by post/email/telephone there is no need for clients to attend any meetings so wherever you live we can offer you extremely competitive rates.

We would hasten to add that this is not a 'dumbing down' of legal services; the quality of services we provide is second to none. It is merely a response to the growing demand by consumers for greater transparency in relation to legal costs and a greater convenience in relation to the provision of legal services.

There are other sites which offer similar services. However with us there is a fundamental difference - everything offered on this site in the law shop is provided directly by Bedfords. In this sense you always know who you are dealing with and you can be secure in the knowledge that we are regulated by the Law Society of England and Wales and have full Professional Indemnity Insurance cover. We believe this to be important.

I very much hope that you find our law shop useful and please do contact us if you have any comments on the website or wish to discuss any of our services.

Rupert Bedford MA, Solicitor