Avoid at all costs. I only give 1 star beause I can't give 0. Having previously used Crosse Wyatt to assist with witnessing a statutory declaration, and Slee Blackwell having merged with Crosse Wyatt, I attempted to use Slee Blackwell to witness a signature and provide a certified copy of a drivers license. Clearly Slee Blackwell do not care a fig for assisting the local community with such small matters and *refused* to assist. Such basic access to legal services is an essential need, no longer available to anybody in the locality as a result of the merger and Slee Blackwell’s refusal to accept such fiddling small jobs where, presumably, large profits can't be made. I suggest you avoid Slee Blackwell at all costs, if you have transport then more helpful, community spirited, and less money oriented solicitors are to be found.
Responding to the owner response: Your careful words may be true, you may swear statutory declarations, I did not ask to swear a statutory declaration on this occasion, I merely mentioned I had done so with Crosse Wyatt before, more showing that service has gone downhill after the merger. Similarly with regard to a "generic ID checks" I did not ask for such a service. I require a solicitor to witness a signature, and a solicitor to certify a copy of a drivers license. Yes you can get a certified copy at the post office, no a post office copy is not acceptable in all instances, as you will well know, and in this instance I need a solicitor to provide a certified copy. All this was explained in the call to your firm who *refused* to provide these services. Now, if you would like to stop weaselling and concede you did indeed refuse reasonable requests for business and apologise, I could accept that a mistake has been made, until then I must assume that you do not, as I originally stated, support local people in taking on the smaller jobs required of solicitors from time to time - probate and conveyancing being far from small matters to most of us.