holdenslaw.co.uk

2.9
2.9 Based on 13 reviews

Holdens Solicitors with offices in Lancaster and Kendal have been providing legal services to clients in Lancashire, Cumbria and beyond for over 170 years. We are a team of experienced and dedicated professionals who offer expertise in a diverse range ......

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Neil David Mellor
I would like to express my sincere thanks to David and Miss Facet at Holdens Law in Lancaster. Throu

I would like to express my sincere thanks to David and Miss Facet at Holdens Law in Lancaster. Throughout my matter, they were professional, knowledgeable, and extremely supportive. Their clear communication, attention to detail, and reassuring manner made a difficult situation much easier to manage. I am very grateful for their expertise and would not hesitate to recommend Holdens Law to anyone seeking reliable and professional legal advice.

5
Date of experience: Feb 06, 2026
Neil David Mellor
I would like to express my sincere…

I would like to express my sincere thanks to David and Miss Facet at Holdens Law in Lancaster. Throughout my matter, they were professional, knowledgeable, and extremely supportive. Their clear communication, attention to detail, and reassuring manner made a difficult situation much easier to manage. I am very grateful for their expertise and would not hesitate to recommend Holdens Law to anyone seeking reliable and professional legal advice.

5
Date of experience: Jan 13, 2026
John Mellor
I would like to express my sincere…

I would like to express my sincere thanks to David and Miss Facet at Holdens Law in Lancaster. Throughout my matter, they were professional, knowledgeable, and extremely supportive. Their clear communication, attention to detail, and reassuring manner made a difficult situation much easier to manage. I am very grateful for their expertise and would not hesitate to recommend Holdens Law to anyone seeking reliable and professional legal advice.

5
Date of experience: Jan 13, 2026
Ben Toh
Very rude

Very rude. Wrote to them twice but no reply.

1
Date of experience: Aug 20, 2025
Andrea
Hannah / Family department is absolutely unhelpful and inexperienced

Hannah Brook is inexperienced and unhelpful. She doesn't listen or care: she likes to write lengthy letters and talking and explaining for long but she is not listening. She is lacking certain knowledges too and instead of trying to look into it, she is telling you off if you do.I don't feel supported and that she understands my situation like my kids are my priority. Rather adding more stress to the anyway hard situation.

1
Date of experience: Aug 15, 2025
Enoch Reed
Excellent Client Support.

Excellent Client Support.Jennifer Larton who specialises in Will’s & LPA sorted both for me at a very competitive rate…10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMEND

5
Date of experience: Oct 09, 2024
Jcshy33
I had to constantly chase things up!

I bought a property and used Holdens Solicitors. I was constantly having to chase things up! I never received any updates unless I rang to see if there was any news and it was always the same answer - no. The solicitor would 'then' email the sellers solicitor. Weeks would pass and the solicitor hadn't chased anything up or checked to see if they had received the paperwork they were waiting for or even if they had received replies to their emails. Then suddenly we were exchanging contracts and completing within a few days! Then I received a phone call to say I could collect the keys from the estate agents, luckily I rang them first to check, I was told they were still waiting for confirmation from the sellers solicitors so had to wait about 4 hours before collecting them! I am still not able to move in to the property due to the exchange of contracts taking so long; the carpets, furniture, etc had to be ordered and as we only exchanged 3 days before completion this has caused me so many problems! If the solicitor had chased things up we could have exchanged contracts much earlier, even if the completion wouldn't have been for ages at least I would have been able to order the carpets, furniture etc and had it arrive sooner! I was so looking forward to moving in to my new home but it has all been ruined! I have been caused so much stress, to the point of being ill! I would not recommend Holdens Solicitors again!

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Date of experience: Jul 30, 2021
Ebony Cooper
Please do not use them, unprofessional and discourteous

If I were able to give then zero stars I would, they have been appalling. They are executors of my aunts will, since I informed them she had died on the 2nd of January this year, they have only answered the phone to me once and none of us have had any contact from them. This is despite numerous emails and voice mails being left by myself, my cousin, my estate agent (left six voicemails, no response) and the buyers’ solicitors. 6 weeks ago, my sister rang (from a nonlocal number) and was able to speak with the ‘solicitor’ who was apparently dealing with the case. My sister referred her to Holdens website which said we should have received a full break down of costs, been kept informed and been told what ‘type of probate' our aunts is (a simple one according to the website) Rebecca apologised and assured my sister she would send out the aforementioned break down of costs by email that night. My sister received nothing and no one has answered my sisters phone calls since.I am a qualified Barrister and have been executor unofficially for several friends (pre and post 'covid') as well as for my mums, so I am aware as to how long it takes and what is involved. Last week the buyer’s solicitors finally after numerous attempts to contact Holdens, got a short email to say, 'they are waiting for probate and some information from the lender as the property has Equity Release registered against it’. This is the first we have heard about ‘Equity Release’, no one from Holdens has attempted to contact us to inform us and they are still not answering our calls or responding to any of our voice or emails. We are all very distressed and disgusted with Holdens and would not recommend them as executors to anyone else.

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Date of experience: Jun 21, 2021
Valarie Morgan
DONT USE THEM you will regret it!!!

DONT USE THEM you will regret it!!!! Terrible service not pleasant at all and a waste of my time. Mr Holden had a stinking attitude and clearly didn’t want to deal with my case unless I handed him more money. He’s unapproachable, rude, arrogant, obnoxious. He was disorganised with his paper work and he kept rolling his eye, not letting me speak and constantly taking over me. The worst service I’ve ever experienced, so glad I didn’t do business with him. AVOID like the plague people!!!!!

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Date of experience: May 17, 2021
Nathanael Foster
Great experience so far

I just wanted to write a positive review of my experience so far with Holden's law. Jemma Higson who is dealing with our sale and purchase has been fantastic, great at communicating and has dealt with things very fast compared to our buyers and vendors solicitors being quite slow! Unfortunately our house sale fell through, Jemma showed empathy and support. We are now back on track to sell and I have no doubt Jemma will be fantastic, and from previous experience in buying with a different company who were very abrupt and not very good at communicating. I highly recommend and hope Jemma receives some recognition for her fantastic work so far.

5
Date of experience: Jul 24, 2020

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  • Holdens Solicitors with offices in Lancaster and Kendal have been providing legal services to clients in Lancashire, Cumbria and beyond for over 170 years. We are a team of experienced and dedicated professionals who offer expertise in a diverse range ...

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