Salisbury lawyers, Bonallack and Bishop, have teamed up with The Happy Relationship Company to offer a new and unusual free service for ‘Relationships in Distress’.

'The new service will be launched on Tuesday, April 22 alongside Bonallack & Bishop's long established free weekly legal surgery when Nigel and Jenny Heath from The Happy Relationship Company will offer a free 20min consultation for clients and non- clients. 

“We are really excited to offer this new approach to those with real relationship problems," said Colin Carnegy, partner at Bonallack and Bishop. “The end of any relationship is a stressful time for everyone involved. Often we find individuals struggling to come to terms with what is happening to them, let alone being able to give instruction to a Solicitor” continued Colin. “We are keen to promote a holistic view of our clients’ difficulties. 

Nigel and Jenny have enormous experience in relationship counselling and we have already referred family clients to them with considerable success. We feel strongly that our role in family cases is to solve the client's problem, which apart from guiding them through the divorce process, also involves explaining their rights, particularly on financial aspect and advising them of the options open to them, this may include the possibility of saving their relationship, or at least helping them deal with the relationship breakdown in as sensible and stress free a way as possible. As a firm we are already strong supporters of the much less adversarial Collaborative Law approach to divorce, with two of our family team trained as Collaborative Lawyers and another as a Family Mediatior and we feel that this additional service at our regular Tuesday evening surgery fits in perfectly with that approach. "

Nigel Heath from The Happy Relationship Company says “Having met with the firm’s divorce law team, we are delighted to offer a ‘Relationships in Distress’ free consultation at their legal surgery, which run every Tuesday 5.15pm – 7pm. Just like Bonallack and Bishop's existing surgery, our service will be on a drop-in basis, so no appointment is necessary,” Jenny commented. “It gives individuals or couples the chance to talk to us in a non-threatening environment to see if we can help them work through any relationship issues. Our approach fits in really well with the sensitive and refreshing attitude towards family problems shown by Bonallack and Bishop”.

For more information please contact Nigel or Jenny Heath on 0800 298 5938 or Colin Carnegy , or for details of our Wiltshire and Dorset family mediation service call  Amanda Harper on 01722 422300.