I would ask them about your first condition on your shpo mine originally was ment to be written almost the same as your but it was the judge who actually pointed it out and said having to notify social service was unnecessary kept it to just notifying the parents.

Spoke to a few more today, in the end I’ve went with the first one as they have no time limit on the consultation.

I’ll ask about the smith compliant thing, I’m also going to see if I can get clarification on a few points, alongside this with the mention of polygraph testing last year I’m going to see what he has to say.

They said they would go through anything I wanted in relation to the SHPO. Any suggestions on what else I should ask? Use my lovey wisely kind of thing.

Yeah I’ll hopefully have a reply from the other one this coming week.

If you think £750 for an email is bad I had to pay over £6k for my solicitor to sit next to me during a no comment interview. My solicitor was great but some times there fees are enough to make you cry. If the £180+Vat is not time limited then it definitely sounds an ok enough deal but would still wait to hear what the other one says.

I’m going to see if the other solicitor replies.

I told the chap that I would let him know.

The advantage is, there’s no time limit, they said the consultation would take as long as it would take to get through everything i want to discuss.

I sat and spoke with one solicitor who kindly gave me 1 hour 30 mins of her time to discuss my SHPO in detail. At the time I didn't know what I know now in regards to whether the SHPO was smith compliant. She never even mentioned it herself which makes me wonder how well known being smith compliant really is, but she did have issues with some of my restrictions. Eventually she told me for her to proceed and get my SHPO clarified it was going to cost me £750. Another firm wanted the same money for just reading an email detailing my SHPO restrictions.

They are probably charging you an hour minimum charge. £180 sounds quite reasonable for a lawyer for something simple like this it’s probably not worth getting an expensive lawyer.

Just an update, the lad rang me back and said it couldn’t be covered on legal aid. It would cost me £180+VAT.

Is that normal? Or should I shop around more.