A package of documents and spreadsheets designed to provide a simple case management system for Mediators. This package was developed in consultation with a local firm of mediators and can be customised to your specific requirements. Briefly, the package consists of:-

Price *: The basic package as described is available for a total of £700.00. Please contact me for a quote on individual parts of the package or additional and/or customised documents.

Price *: £60.00

Developed in association with a local Law Costs Draftsman, this EXCEL-based package allows self-adding bills to be created with correct layout and itemisation of costs incurred etc. The Bill Paper Suite comes with complete instructions and includes a VAT calculator and a calculator to quickly convert time spent at any chosen charging rate into total costs. [As the suite is designed to produced "red-lined" bill paper, a colour printer is required].

Price *: £60.00

Price * (blank for use on pre-printed paper): £100.00;

(for customised headed paper to print on plain paper, individual quotes will be given)

Save the costs of buying pre-printed headed paper by printing your headings on blank paper. Particularly with the falling costs of colour laser printers, producing professional headed paper is a viable alternative to paying a stationer (and remembering to re-order and have him change the details of partners etc.). Our headed paper can be created to most simple requirements and comes complete with headed "continuation sheets" which automatically generate when required and address boxes positioned for standard window envelopes. Once bought, you will be able to alter the template yourself whenever the need arises.

Price *: starts at £100.00 (depending on complexity of requirements)

For any small law firm needing a simple no-nonsense client database and timecosts package, this set of two linked EXCEL-based programs may be the answer. The Client Database is used to record all basic client data and will also display file closure archive references. The Timecosts program uses the client reference number to generate the client name from the Client Database and multiplies the number of recorded units by any one of a number of chosen rates to give costs. Individual client or fee earner printouts can be generated, rates can be altered as required and costs limit warnings set when needed.

Price *: £1,000.00

Over the years we have developed a number of simple stats packages, mainly in response to LSC requirements. These include:-

Price *: £60.00 each (discounts available for multiple purchases)

Most of our legal forms and documents at access law are developed in-house using WORD and EXCEL, including:-

We also produce a large range of standard pro-forma letters and documents such as wills and statements etc. Whilst copyright restrictions prevent the direct sale of many of these in-house documents, G. L. Hewstone is available on a consultancy basis to assist firms develop their own in-house versions, customised to their own needs. Such development assistance is priced on a per-form basis and there is an optional annual retention fee which ensures further assistance should the form require alteration during the period covered by the retention fee. A full list of available forms (currently numbering over 300) is available on request.

The Form E
As anyone who has had to fill out a Form E Financial Statement will no doubt certify, completion of this form can be something of an ordeal. My EXCEL-based version is available with the following features:-

- it is set up so that either blank hard copies may be printed (eg to be handed to Clients or for completion by hand) or it may be completed on-screen and saved at any stage;
- fully self-calculating and automated so that, for example, completion of the front page also completes the cover sheet and attestation pages;
- includes a navigation bar for quick movement between the major sections;
- to take account of the fact that many clients may have, for example, more than one pension scheme I have included additional duplicate pages for these items which automatically feed into the final calculations.

If purchased separately, the Form E is available for £50.00 for unlimited use

Price *: £20.00 per form; £2.00 per annum per form retention fee
[NOTE: Form E is £50.00 if purchased separately;
Form H & H1 is £40.00 if purchased separately]

Basic Training Packages are available on EXCEL and on using Outlook as a Case Management tool. Other packages may be devised on request. Training may be given in person in the Southampton area only or the training notes are available by post or email.

Price *: £100.00 per person (for in-person training); £20.00 per set of training notes

Price *: £100.00 per page