Defined work such as a decision review, chronology, evidence review, complaint preparation or agreed document package.
Independent case preparation & permitted support
Whatever the problem.
Arrive prepared.
Bring us the decision, the papers and the deadline. Wolfe & Black turns complicated evidence and procedure into a structured case you can understand and present. We Prepare. You Conduct.
Wolfe & Black is not a firm of solicitors. We provide independent case preparation, evidence analysis and other permitted support.
A wide front door. A clear boundary.
Wolfe & Black is not a firm of solicitors. We support a broad range of disputes, decisions, hearings, reviews and complaints through non-reserved case preparation and permitted support. Where reserved or separately regulated work is required, we identify that boundary and the need for an appropriately authorised professional.
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What are you facing?
Open a matter below. You will see examples of the problems we can assess and the practical work Wolfe & Black may be able to undertake.
Family & ChildrenChildren arrangements, contact restrictions, reports, allegations and hearing preparation.+
Situations we can assess
- Contact stopped, reduced or supervised
- Child arrangements disputes
- Section 7 / CAFCASS report concerns
- Social worker recommendations disputed
- Domestic abuse or safeguarding allegations
- Variation or enforcement of arrangements
- Handovers, travel and indirect contact
- Parental responsibility issues
- Fact-finding or final hearing preparation
What we can do
- Review orders, reports and correspondence
- Build a clear chronology and issue schedule
- Compare allegations against source evidence
- Identify inconsistencies and missing evidence
- Organise disclosure and hearing papers
- Assist with permitted case documents, questions and hearing preparation
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Social Services & SafeguardingAssessments, safeguarding records, complaints, disclosure and evidence-led challenges.+
Situations we can assess
- Child in Need involvement
- Child Protection processes
- Section 47 enquiries
- Inaccurate social work assessments
- Historical allegations presented as current risk
- Failure to consider contrary evidence
- Stage 1 or Stage 2 complaint problems
- Missing records following an SAR
- Decisions based on unclear or undisclosed information
What we can do
- Forensic comparison of records and allegations
- Chronology of professional involvement
- Identify evidential gaps and conflicting records
- Complaint and escalation preparation
- Disclosure and SAR analysis
- Prepare a structured evidence pack
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
SEND, EHCP & EducationEHCPs, exclusions, provision failures, placements and Tribunal preparation where permitted.+
Situations we can assess
- EHC needs assessment refused
- EHCP refused or delayed
- EHCP does not describe needs properly
- Section F provision not delivered
- Named placement disputed
- Annual review problems
- Local authority deadlines missed
- Permanent or fixed-term exclusion
- Tribunal proceedings contemplated or underway
What we can do
- Review EHCP and professional evidence
- Map needs against specified provision
- Identify missed statutory steps and evidence gaps
- Organise school, medical and professional records
- Complaint, mediation and Tribunal preparation where permitted
- Build chronology and evidence schedules
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Taxi & Private Hire LicensingDriver and operator licensing decisions, committees, investigations and appeals.+
Situations we can assess
- New licence or renewal refused
- Licence suspended or revoked
- Immediate revocation
- Points, convictions or medical issues
- Passenger or safeguarding complaints
- Police information relied upon
- Fit and proper person decision
- Licensing committee hearing
- Operator licence or compliance action
- Magistrates Court appeal preparation
What we can do
- Review the decision and council policy
- Analyse evidence and proportionality issues
- Prepare chronology and representations where permitted
- Committee preparation and question planning
- Organise appeal evidence and bundles
- Identify deadlines and procedural issues
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
DVSA, Operator Licensing & Traffic CommissionerHGV/PSV operator licensing, Public Inquiries, DVSA enforcement and compliance.+
Situations we can assess
- DVSA investigation
- Traffic Commissioner correspondence
- Public Inquiry or preliminary hearing
- Operator licence application or variation
- Suspension, curtailment or revocation risk
- Transport manager repute or competence
- Maintenance and roadworthiness shortcomings
- Prohibitions
- Drivers hours or tachograph issues
- Undertakings, audits or impounding
What we can do
- Analyse DVSA and operator records
- Build compliance chronology
- Review maintenance and roadworthiness evidence
- Prepare Public Inquiry evidence structure
- Organise transport manager and systems evidence
- Support remediation and hearing preparation within permitted scope
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Housing & HomelessnessHomelessness decisions, suitability, reviews, disrepair and public-body complaints.+
Situations we can assess
- Council says you are not homeless
- Temporary accommodation is unsuitable
- Homelessness application refused
- Housing decision requires review
- Medical needs not properly considered
- Placement far from school, work or support
- Disrepair affecting the household
- Council complaint has stalled
- Ombudsman escalation required
What we can do
- Review decision letters and housing records
- Analyse suitability and supporting evidence
- Organise medical and property evidence
- Build chronology of council contact
- Prepare review or complaint material where permitted
- Ombudsman evidence preparation
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
NHS, CHC & Social CareCHC funding, assessments, care disputes, evidence scoring, reviews and complaints.+
Situations we can assess
- CHC Checklist disputed
- Decision Support Tool concerns
- CHC funding refused or withdrawn
- Needs incorrectly scored
- Evidence overlooked
- MDT disagreement
- Care package dispute
- Local authority charging issue
- NHS complaint or Ombudsman escalation
What we can do
- Compare assessments against underlying evidence
- Create domain-by-domain evidence schedules
- Identify inconsistencies and missing records
- Prepare review and complaint materials
- Organise medical and care evidence
- Build a clear funding decision chronology
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Employment & WorkplaceDisciplinary, grievance, dismissal, workplace allegations and Tribunal preparation.+
Situations we can assess
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Grievance
- Suspension
- Performance or capability process
- Workplace allegations
- Dismissal
- Redundancy dispute
- Contract or pay dispute
- ACAS-related preparation
- Employment Tribunal preparation
What we can do
- Review correspondence and policies
- Build employment chronology
- Organise documentary evidence
- Identify conflicting accounts and missing material
- Prepare structured response material where permitted
- Tribunal bundle and hearing preparation support
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Civil, Consumer & ContractMoney claims, contracts, consumer and business disputes and hearing preparation.+
Situations we can assess
- Money claim
- Contract dispute
- Poor workmanship
- Consumer dispute
- Vehicle dispute
- Business-to-business disagreement
- Letter before action received
- Claim form received
- Document-heavy dispute
- Settlement or hearing preparation
What we can do
- Review claim, response and contract documents
- Build chronology and evidence schedule
- Organise correspondence and supporting records
- Assist with permitted drafting and response preparation
- Prepare hearing documents and bundle structure
- Identify key factual and evidential disputes
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Complaints, Councils & Public BodiesProcedural failures, maladministration, complaints, reviews and Ombudsman escalation.+
Situations we can assess
- Council complaint
- NHS or public-body complaint
- School or local authority complaint
- Stage 1 or Stage 2 escalation
- Failure to follow published procedure
- Unreasonable delay
- Conflicting responses
- Failure to investigate evidence
- Ombudsman escalation
What we can do
- Reconstruct what happened from the paper trail
- Compare procedure against what actually occurred
- Build complaint chronology
- Identify unanswered points and contradictory responses
- Prepare escalation material
- Organise evidence for Ombudsman review
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Regulatory & ProfessionalRegulatory investigations, professional discipline, licensing and decision challenges.+
Situations we can assess
- Regulatory investigation
- Professional regulator complaint
- Disciplinary process
- Licence or registration concern
- Compliance investigation
- Enforcement correspondence
- Decision challenge
- Evidence request
What we can do
- Review allegations and regulatory correspondence
- Map evidence against the issues raised
- Build chronology and response structure
- Identify procedural and evidential gaps
- Prepare supporting material within permitted scope
- Organise hearing or review evidence
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Data, SAR & DisclosureIncomplete disclosure, missing records, inaccurate data and ICO escalation.+
Situations we can assess
- SAR response incomplete
- Emails or records appear missing
- Heavy or unexplained redactions
- Personal information inaccurate
- Conflicting records between organisations
- Disclosure chronology required
- ICO complaint contemplated
What we can do
- Index and compare disclosure sets
- Identify missing periods and apparent gaps
- Build disclosure chronology
- Schedule contradictory entries
- Prepare complaint evidence
- Organise material for ICO escalation
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Benefits & WelfareDecision reviews, evidence schedules, reconsideration and appeal preparation.+
Situations we can assess
- Benefit decision disputed
- Evidence overlooked
- Mandatory reconsideration
- Assessment evidence disputed
- Appeal preparation
What we can do
- Review decision and evidence
- Build chronology and evidence schedule
- Identify unanswered factual points
- Organise reconsideration material
- Prepare appeal evidence within permitted scope
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Business & RegulatoryInvestigations, licensing, compliance remediation and administrative disputes.+
Situations we can assess
- Regulatory action
- Compliance investigation
- Trading standards issue
- Local authority enforcement
- Licence problem
- Internal investigation
- Policy or procedure dispute
- Compliance remediation required
What we can do
- Review regulatory correspondence
- Organise business and compliance records
- Build investigation chronology
- Identify evidence gaps and action points
- Prepare remediation plan
- Support permitted response and hearing preparation
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Hearings & AppealsFocused preparation when a hearing, review or appeal is approaching.+
Situations we can assess
- Hearing approaching
- Appeal deadline
- Large disorganised bundle
- Chronology required
- Questions need preparing
- Evidence needs prioritising
- Case position needs structuring
What we can do
- Build case theory and chronology
- Create issue and evidence schedules
- Organise bundle structure
- Prepare questions and hearing notes
- Identify weak or missing evidence
- Practical hearing preparation within permitted scope
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Inquests & CoronialSensitive chronology, evidence, disclosure and hearing preparation support.+
Situations we can assess
- Large medical record set
- Disclosure requires organisation
- Chronology unclear
- Questions or issues need identifying
- Hearing preparation required
What we can do
- Create sensitive factual chronology
- Index and organise records
- Identify evidential themes and gaps
- Prepare issue schedules
- Support hearing preparation within permitted scope
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Criminal Case SupportNon-reserved document and case preparation alongside appropriately authorised representation.+
Situations we can assess
- Evidence needs organising
- Large disclosure set
- Chronology required
- Documents need comparing
- Preparation support required
What we can do
- Index and organise evidence
- Build factual chronology
- Compare documents and accounts
- Create evidence schedules
- Work alongside authorised representation where required
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Estate & Probate SupportEstate administration preparation and document support, excluding reserved probate activity.+
Situations we can assess
- Estate papers disorganised
- Asset and liability records required
- Correspondence needs structuring
- Administration evidence needs organising
- Reserved probate work may be required
What we can do
- Organise estate records
- Build asset and document schedules
- Prepare administration chronology
- Structure correspondence and evidence
- Identify where an authorised professional is required
Ways to instruct us
Fixed feeTime costedCase packageOngoing support
We assess scope first and confirm the appropriate charging basis before substantive work begins.
Practical case preparation
What can we actually do?
Review the decision
Read the decision, order, assessment, report or regulatory correspondence and identify the issues that need answering.
Analyse the evidence
Compare allegations, records and source documents; identify inconsistencies, evidential gaps and material that has been overlooked.
Build the case structure
Prepare chronologies, issue schedules, document structures, evidence schedules and practical case plans.
Prepare for the next stage
Assist with permitted document preparation, questions, bundles, complaints, reviews, representations and hearing preparation within our lawful scope.
Ways to work with us
Clear scope. Appropriate pricing.
Not every matter should be priced the same way. We assess the papers and proposed work first, then confirm the scope and charging basis before substantive work begins.
Complex, substantial or evolving matters where the volume and issues cannot sensibly be fixed at the outset.
A defined combination of review, evidence analysis, preparation and support for a particular stage.
Continuing document review and preparation where the matter develops over time.
Availability of a fixed fee, package or ongoing arrangement depends on the nature and scope of the matter. A published service description is not a promise that Wolfe & Black can undertake a particular matter.
Decisions & developments
Recent cases. Practical meaning.
Relevant service areas will include published judgments, tribunal decisions, regulatory decisions and Ombudsman findings, with Wolfe & Black analysis explaining the issue and why it may matter in practice.
Published cases discussed on this site are provided for information. Wolfe & Black did not necessarily act in those matters and does not imply that it did.
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One route in. The right route forward.
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Tell us
Explain what happened, upload the key documents and tell us about any hearing, appeal or response deadline.
02
Triage
We identify the issues, evidence, urgency, permitted scope and whether an authorised professional is needed.
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Scope & price
Where we can assist, we confirm the work, charging basis and next steps before substantive work starts.
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Prepare
We organise the material and undertake the agreed preparation and support. You conduct formal proceedings unless a lawful alternative applies.
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