It is astonishing how often errors in papers received from American clients in the names and/or addresses of Companies to be served result in delay and unnecessary costs. We actually had instructions in one case where the name and address was 40 years out of date!

Under British rules, we do not have "Registered Agent", ie the official person for service, we have "Registered Office", the 'official' place for service. If you go to our Companies House website, you can check out the correct title and registered office address of any Company you believe to be British for yourself (and if you cannot find the name you are looking for, beware! - the company, if it IS British, cannot exist in the name you have, and we cannot serve a company that does not exist).

Or - Send us the name and address of any company you anticipate that you might need service on and we will check it out for you - free of charge.

Send us any address for service that you have in advance and we can at least check out that it is a valid UK street address.

We offer a pre-service trace enquiry. Please contact us with the details you have and we shall quote you a fee for a simple trace to give you a good indication of the likelihood of the Defendant still being at the address. This is particularly pertinent in mortgage foreclosure matters. So often the mortage payments have fallen into arrears because the customer has had a change of circumstances and address. Our pre-service trace will always cost less than an unsuccessful attempt at service at an old address.