London boroughs
- Barking and Dagenham Barking
- Barnet
- Bexley Bexleyheath
- Brent Wembley
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich Greenwich, Woolwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham Hammersmith
- Haringey Wood Green, Tottenham
- Harrow
- Havering Romford
- Hillingdon Uxbridge
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames Kingston
- Lambeth Brixton
- Lewisham
- Merton Morden, Wimbledon
- Newham Stratford, East Ham
- Redbridge Ilford
- Richmond upon Thames Richmond
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets Whitechapel
- Waltham Forest Walthamstow
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Names without a link do not have their own page yet.
How the borough pages work
This page is the starting point for london solicitors by borough, so you can reach the guide for the part of London that matters to you. Every borough page shows how to check a solicitor and find the local court. However, it also lists where free help may be available and common reasons for legal advice. Because each page covers one borough, you can go straight to the one you need.
Courts are a good example. Find a Court or Tribunal on GOV.UK gives each court or tribunal’s address, opening times, what it handles and contact details. Therefore, a borough page can point you to it rather than guess.
Boroughs with their own page
Guide pages exist for 30 London boroughs. For example, you can read the guide for Bromley, Merton, Croydon or Harrow. You can also open the guide for Newham.
Each page follows the same pattern, so once you have read one, the others are easy to follow. However, the detail belongs to the borough itself, which is why this page does not repeat it. If you are not sure which area of law you need, the practice areas page is a useful place to begin.
Boroughs without a page yet
Three boroughs are named on the boroughs page but have no page of their own yet. They are City of London, Kensington and Chelsea and Southwark. Although they have no guide today, this page still describes how to check a solicitor. You can use those steps whether you live or work in one of them.
Finding a solicitor in any borough
The same tools work wherever you live in London, because they search by name, place or subject rather than by guide page. The SRA Solicitors Register lets you look up the records of the solicitors and law firms the SRA regulates, and check whether somebody is a solicitor and where they work. The Law Society’s Find a Solicitor service searches its database of legal professionals by organisation or person, name or SRA ID, location, area of practice and legal issue.
If cost is the worry, the legal aid adviser service finds advisers in England and Wales by postcode. They ask about your problem and finances to work out if you can get legal aid. The Law Centres Network says Law Centres help people in poverty overcome legal problems, and it lists every Law Centre across the UK on one page. When you have a name to hand, the check-a-solicitor page shows how to confirm it.