Our personal injury solicitors are experienced in providing the very best support, advice and representation through each step of the claims process to help you get your life back on track. We are specialists in both complex and straightforward personal injury cases, with specific expertise in claims related to brain and head injuries and catastrophic injuries, which can change your life forever. We understand that in serious injuries, this is hard to deal with, especially in the accident was not your fault. Serious injury can happen in all sort of way, such as Road Traffic Accident, Workplace Accident and even Criminal Assault. Serious injuries include amputation, assault injury, burn injury, head injury, fatal injury, loss of sight and spinal injury. We are one of only a handful of experts in fatal accidents claims.

Taj Mughal Solicitors is renowned for its extensive experience in litigation and personal injury and dispute resolution, representing plaintiffs and defendants in a range of matters relating to personal injuries claims. These include all forms of motor vehicle, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle, drink driving, boating and construction accidents; medical negligence; workplace injuries, animal attack claims, criminal injuries, defective product injuries, industrial disease.

Medical negligence or clinical negligence is where a patient receives substandard care. It can happen several ways from the misdiagnosis of an illness or condition.

When a medical mistake occurs, it can have a devastating impact upon the patient and their loved ones. impacting not only upon their health. But also potentially on the individual’s personal and working life. Our team of Clinical and Medical Negligence experts will look to help ease the burden during this difficult time by also considering care plans, home adaptations, corrective treatments, counselling and  rehabilitation where appropriate.

Our medical negligence solicitors will provide you with legal assistance on any case to do with injury or harm that you have suffered due to negligence by a health practitioner like a dentist, doctor, midwife, nurse or anaesthetist, physiotherapist, psychologist, osteopath and opticians.

Debt Recovery

When a company or an individual owes you money, we can help to collect the debt. Whether your business is small or large, any delay in receipt of payments due is unwelcome. We act as debt recovery solicitors for a wide range of clients and work with them to find the best possible solution to their problems.

Family Law:

 

Family Law

We Provide The best family law and divorce solicitor stoke on Trent. Family Law is a specialist area of law that focuses on all aspects of the family. It is an area that has become increasingly more complicated as the ‘family’ continues to evolve. We offer a sensitive and personal family service by supporting and advising through what is, for many people, a very difficult and traumatic time.

Our team of sensitive professionals, who are accustomed to dealing with the many complexities of modern family life. Modern dynamics and shifting cultural attitudes, as well as additional pressures of everyday life, make Family Law more complex and more important than ever.

Taj Mughal Solicitors are on hand to give you the help you deserve in tackling these issues and more, from support and guidance to expertly honed legal advice that will make your entire journey more comfortable, we cover all angles of Family Law.

Criminal Law:

 

Criminal Law

If you are worried about a criminal investigation, have been called for an interview, or have already been arrested and charged, then Taj Mughal Solicitor’s criminal defense lawyers can provide you with specialist legal advice. When facing an allegation of criminal conduct or behaviour. It is essential to get clear and transparent legal advice from experienced criminal defense lawyers who will protect your rights.

Our expert knowledge and vast experience of the criminal justice system means that you can be confident knowing that your case is in the most dedicated and experienced hands. We will provide clear advice in plain English along with sympathetic personal support to help you through your difficult time.

EMPLOYMENT LAW:

 

Employment Law

In the current climate, employment law issues are high on everyone’s agenda. Whether it is redundancy or workplace disputes, you need a lawyer you can trust.

Employment law gives all UK workers a wide range of rights and entitlements in relation to their jobs. This covers everything from how redundancy, dismissal or disciplinaries should be handled, to wages, working hours, sickness, holidays and time off work. Problems at work as a result of your rights being denied can be extremely emotive and stressful.

At Taj Mughal Solicitors, we will ensure that you know where you stand, every step of the way. We support employee clients by providing specialist advice and guidance on employment rights and responsibility when dealing with complex work situations.

Our team can advise you on all aspects of employment law and can represent you in the Employment Tribunal. In relation to a range of claims from unfair dismissal to discrimination and harassment.

Whether you are an employer needing HR support or employment law guidance or an employee (or ex-employee) looking to resolve a dispute, our team can advise you on all aspects of employment law and HR regulation, at any stage.

LEASES & TENANCY AGREEMENTS:

 

Leases and Tenancy Agreements

 

Whether you’re a landlord or a tenant – for residential or commercial property – knowing what’s in your lease and how that may affect and protect your rights and property, is essential.

The law in these areas frequently changes and if not carefully considered against your circumstances may present complex legal issues that you have to take the time to rectify.

Don’t let that happen. Instruct Taj Mughal Solicitors

At Taj Mughal Solicitors we have a dedicated team of Solicitors to handle all aspects of residential and commercial leases and tenancy agreements. Whether you are a landlord or tenant, we can assist on both sides of the spectrum.

Taj Mughal Solicitors can act for you either as landlord or tenant on all types of premises including offices, factories, warehouses, garages, hotels, public houses, restaurants, takeaways, shops, flats and houses.

Taj Mughal Solicitors take a practical and commercial approach aimed at helping you and keep pace with the regulations and case law to ensure that your best interests are protected at all times.

Taxi Licensing & Appeals Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles – Licensing & Appeals

 

To grant a taxi license to you, the local Council must be satisfied that you are “a fit and proper person”.

These powers are strictly applied in order to ensure public safety and fair competition. But sometimes unfairness results and operators, proprietors or drivers have their licenses revoked or suspended, often with catastrophic effects on their livelihoods.

Before refusing a new application, or revoking an existing license. Your local Council will usually invite you to appear before a taxi licensing panel or sub-committee.

Miscellaneous Services:

 

1- Statutory Declaration

A statutory declaration (commonly known as a “stat dec”) is a written statement of fact that is signed in the presence of either a solicitor, notary public, magistrate or commissioner for oaths.

The statement itself can be anything but is usually some kind of evidence to satisfy a legal requirement.

We cannot witness you sign a Statutory Declaration that we have prepared, but we can witness one prepared by another firm.

Statutory declarations uses:

• By people who wish to change their name as a method of legally adopting their new name so
• they can use it on documents such as passports and driving licences
• By financial institutions to transfer money to people legally entitled to deal with the estate of a
• person who has died, such as executors of a will
• Declarations of identity, nationality or marital status when documentary evidence is unavailable
• By company directors declaring solvency when going into voluntary liquidation
• Affirming the provenance and nature of goods for export or import
• Declaration statements of originality of an item as part of a patent application

2- Change of Name Deeds

Change of Name Deed is a legal document required in order to amend or update the name you were given at birth.

We’ll also provide advice on compliance with HM Passport Office, who have their own rules on acceptable names.

Who can change their name?

Anyone over the age of 16 is legally entitled to change their name, so long as the intention is not to defraud

anyone in doing so. As, anyone below the age of 16 can change their name. But they must have official parental

consent to do so.

How do I change my name?

The first step in changing your name is getting in touch with a member of our team. Our solicitors will need to see your birth certificate along with two forms of identification such as a driving license and a recent bank statement.

If divorced, it’s vital you bring your decree absolute granted to you by the Court. Once our solicitors have reviewed these documents, we will help you draft the Deed Poll. As soon as you sign the Deed Poll in the presence of our solicitors and your two witnesses your new name then will become official.

3- Immigration Accommodation Reports

Taj Mughal Solicitors prepare Accommodation Reports for Entry Clearance purposes. To verify that the sponsors accommodation satisfies the current requirements. Under, the Housing Act to accommodate an individual or individuals upon their entry into the United Kingdom.

To enter the UK as spouses, civil partners, fiancé, proposed civil partners, unmarried and same sex partners, children, parents and dependent relatives and visitors.

 

4- Sponsorship and accommodation Declaration

Do you have a marriage celebration or family event coming up? Would you like to invite your friend(s) or family member(s) to visit you from outside the EU under the Visitor visa category?

If so, it is advisable to provide them with a ‘Sponsorship Declaration’, which in summary. Details the financial support and accommodation available to them. In the UK and also acts as an undertaking from the ‘sponsor’ confirming. They shall ensure the visiting person(s) onward return to their home country.

 

5- Documents Certification

As solicitors, we are often asked to certify that a photocopy of an original document is a true copy of the original.  Some organisations won’t accept a certified copy unless it has been certified by a solicitor.

 Our Solicitor can also provide certified copies of original documents. The range of services we can
offer are in this area is as follows:

• Verifying affidavits
• Witnessing signatures on other legal documents
• Draft Power of Attorney or witness signatures
• Draft a Change of Name Deed or witness signatures of the deponent
• Certify copy of a document as a true copy of the original
• We can witness the signatures on statutory declarations
• ID1 Land Registry Form completion
• Certifying Driving License, Passports and Passport size Photos

6- Power of Attorney

What is a power of attorney?

A power of attorney is a legal document that allows someone to make decisions for you, or act on your behalf. If you’re no longer able to or if you no longer want to make your own decisions.

There are a number of reasons why you might need someone to make decisions for you or act on your behalf.

 

Different types of power of attorney

There are different types of power of attorney’s however mostly two of them are commonly used. These are General power of attorney and Special Power of Attorney.

General Power of Attorney

A General Power of Attorney is governed by Section 10 of the Powers of Attorney Act 1971. It gives the Attorney(s) power over the Donor’s affairs in entirety. Also, it should therefore be used with great care. If the donor loses mental capacity this will automatically terminate the power. So, you need to consider a Power that covers incapacity.

Special Power of Attorney

Special Power of Attorney is a lasting power of attorney form used. When the Donor wishes the Attorney(s) to have limited powers. Covering a single transaction or specified purpose.

Power of Attorney for Overseas Pakistanis

Many overseas Pakistanis investing in Pakistan need to send a power of attorney to someone living in the country. You will need a solicitor in the UK, who can draft the required documents and attest the documents for you.

A competent Solicitor like Taj Mughal Solicitors can help prepare the paperwork and avoid unnecessary delays. We cannot advice you on overseas law. But we can draw up a power of attorney for common wealth (or former common wealth) countries and where power of attorney are made in UK are accepted.

A principal (the one granting the power of attorney) can also authorize someone to move. The court or make an appearance in the civil court on their behalf. They can authorize them to buy, sell, lease, or take possession of property on their behalf. Indeed, this is one of the primary methods through which overseas Pakistanis, unable to visit Pakistan, conduct their business.

Three parts of process:

• Draft the Power of Attorney, Signed and stamped by your solicitor
• Attestation of the power of attorney in consulate/embassy of Pakistan
• Registration of the power of attorney in Pakistan.

Attestation of Power of Attorney

Before a power of attorney can be registered in Pakistan. There needs to be an attestation of power of attorney at the respective consulate or embassy of Pakistan in the country of the principal’s residence.

Requirements for Power of Attorney for attestation in the U.K Pakistani Consulate:

• Original power of attorney and a few copies.
• Application form for attestation of power of attorney.
• Your original passport along with its copy.
• Your original Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) or National Identity Card
•  for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) along with its copy.
• Two recent passport size photographs affixed on power of attorney next to the place of signature.
• In case the document of power of attorney extends to more than one page, each.
• Copies of your CNIC and that of the witnesses.