header-logo header-logo

Hart Brown Solicitors

31 October 2019
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
printer mail-detail
Surrey firm celebrates its centenary

Surrey firm Hart Brown is celebrating its 100th anniversary, after founder Cecil Hart opened its first office in Godalming in 1919.

In 1958, the firm welcomed the arrival of Kenneth Brown, and became known as Hart Son and Brown; it moved to its current headquarters in Guildford in 2000. Today, the firm employs more than 100 staff members, including 15 partners, across five offices.

As part of its centenary celebrations, Hart Brown is sponsoring the Start-Up of The Year category in this year’s Surrey Business Awards in November. It also recently sponsored four performances by the Guildford Shakespeare Company, and organised a 100-mile charity cycle ride to raise money for the Woking and Sam Beare Hospice.

Partner Roderick Campbell commented: ‘We keep the founder’s ethos alive of top quality service with a personal touch. The firm has obtained an average 97% customer satisfaction rating over the past year. Many of our clients have been with us for generations and we are very proud of that. What was a sole practice a hundred years ago has grown to be one of the leading law firms in Surrey.’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Francis Ho, City of London Law Society

NLJ Career Profile: Francis Ho, City of London Law Society

Francis Ho, Charles Russell Speechlys partner, was recently appointed chair of the Construction Law Committee of the City of London Law Society. He discusses the challenges of learning to lead, the importance of professional ethics, and the power of the written word, withNLJ

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
In this week's NLJ, Bhavini Patel of Howard Kennedy LLP reports on Almacantar v De Valk [2025], a landmark Upper Tribunal ruling extending protection for leaseholders under the Building Safety Act 2022
Writing in NLJ this week, Hanna Basha and Jamie Hurworth of Payne Hicks Beach dissect TV chef John Torode’s startling decision to identify himself in a racism investigation he denied. In an age of ‘cancel culture’, they argue, self-disclosure can both protect and imperil reputations
back-to-top-scroll