Independent Cardiff solicitors · Est. 2009
Straight answers,
fixed fees, and a
solicitor who
picks up.
Clear legal advice in plain English — no jargon, no open-ended hourly bills, no chasing for an update. Serving Cardiff, the Vale and South Wales. Croeso i chi siarad Cymraeg.
4.9 / 5 from 180+ client reviews Regulated by the SRA
What we do
A full-service firm, at a
high-street scale.
Big enough to handle the complicated matters, small enough that you deal with the same solicitor from first call to completion.
For you & your family
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Residential conveyancing
Buying, selling, remortgaging, transfers of equity, shared ownership and new-build purchases. Fixed fee agreed before we open the file.
From £900 + VAT & disbursements
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Wills, trusts & estate planning
Single and mirror wills, trusts, inheritance tax planning, and advice on protecting the family home.
Single will from £195 · Mirror wills from £310 + VAT
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Probate & estate administration
Grant-only applications where you handle the estate yourself, or full administration where we handle everything.
Grant-only from £850 + VAT (plus £526 probate fee)
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Lasting powers of attorney
Property & financial affairs and health & welfare LPAs, drafted and registered with the OPG.
From £400 + VAT (plus £82 registration per LPA)
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Family & relationships
Divorce and dissolution, financial settlements, children arrangements, cohabitation and pre-nuptial agreements. Fixed-fee first meeting.
Initial fixed-fee consultation £150 + VAT
For your business
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Employment law
For employers and employees alike — settlement agreements, unfair and constructive dismissal, redundancy, discrimination and tribunal representation.
Settlement agreement review from £350 + VAT
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Commercial property
Leases and lease renewals, freehold acquisitions and disposals, licences to assign, and landlord and tenant advice.
Quoted on scope — estimate within one working day
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Company & commercial
Shareholder and partnership agreements, terms of business, share sales and purchases, and day-to-day commercial contracts.
Fixed fee or capped hourly rate — your choice
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Dispute resolution
Contract and property disputes, professional negligence and debt recovery. We will tell you plainly when a claim is not worth running.
Business debt recovery from £250 + VAT per claim
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Contested wills & probate
Inheritance Act claims, challenges to validity, and disputes between executors and beneficiaries. Conditional fee funding considered.
No win, no fee available on eligible claims
Not sure which of these you need? That is what the free case review is for — twenty minutes, no obligation, and we will tell you if you do not need a solicitor at all. Book a free case review
Price transparency
You will never get a
bill you did not expect.
Every quote is confirmed in writing before we open your file, and it sets out our fee, the VAT, every disbursement, and what is not included. If the scope of the work changes, we tell you what that costs before we do it — not afterwards.
Get a written quote- Fixed fees as standardOn conveyancing, wills, LPAs and settlement agreements — the figure we quote is the figure you pay.
- Capped hourly ratesWhere a matter genuinely cannot be fixed-fee, we agree a ceiling and we do not pass it without your say-so.
- Disbursements itemisedSearch fees, Land Registry fees, the £526 probate application fee — listed individually, at cost.
- No charge for updatesWe do not bill you for a five-minute call asking where things are up to.
Who you will be dealing with
Two partners who still
run their own files.
Elis & Wright was founded in 2009 by Carys Elis and Thomas Wright, both of whom had spent a decade in larger regional practices and had grown tired of watching clients get handed down to whoever was free that week.
The firm was built around a simple rule that still holds: the solicitor you meet at the first appointment is the solicitor who runs your matter through to the end. No case-handler churn, no being bounced between departments, and no wondering who is actually responsible for your file.
We are a Welsh firm and we practise in both languages — you are welcome to deal with us entirely in Welsh, in writing and in person.
What clients say
4.9 out of 5, across
180+ reviews.
★★★★★
Sold and bought within eleven weeks with a chain of four, which I am told is nothing short of a miracle. What I appreciated most was being told the truth about the delays rather than being managed. Fee was exactly what was quoted.
★★★★★
I went in expecting to be talked into a claim and was told, politely, that I did not have one worth running and why. That honesty is the reason I have since sent them two pieces of company work.
★★★★★
Dealt with my mother's estate at a point when I could not face the paperwork. Everything was explained once, clearly, and then simply handled. They also took the whole thing in Welsh, which mattered a great deal to my father.
★★★★★
Settlement agreement reviewed and renegotiated inside forty-eight hours, and they got a materially better number out of my employer than what was on the table. Fixed fee, and it paid for itself many times over.
Find us
Two minutes from
Cardiff Central.
Seventh Floor, Southgate HouseWood Street
Cardiff CF10 1GR
Opening hours
- Monday – Thursday
- 9.00am – 5.30pm
- Friday
- 9.00am – 5.00pm
- Saturday
- 9.30am – 12.30pm, by appointment
- Sunday
- Closed
Evening and home appointments can be arranged for wills, LPAs and probate where getting into the office is difficult.
Tell us what has happened.
We will tell you where you stand.
Twenty minutes, free, and no obligation to instruct us afterwards.