"Thank you Efrat for my UK Skilled Worker visa"

Thank you Efrat for your assistance for me to getting UK Visa. I am Ukrainian and I needed to open a Skilled Worker visa for 3 years. Efrat was super nice, provided very important information on each stage preparing documents. She answered to all my questions very quickly and I will be always thankful to her help in my difficult time.

"Fantstic Results!"

Our Company worked with Efrat Shemesh from Branch Austin McCormick LLP and we highly recommend them. We found Efrat's service to be very effective and we recieved a positive outcome very swiftly. We will definetly use them in the future, highly recomended!

"Excellent service from Efrat Shemesh"

when we first contact Eftrat we were worried and confused about the process of applying for a spouse visa. Efrat explained and simplified everything, reassuring us all the way. we could clearly see that she knows her job and all the rules and laws top to bottom, managing the process thoroughly and leading us to a successful result!
we are extremely thankful.

"Mr Elliot Hammer"

After a lengthy hearing - and a gruelling cross examination I had to endure, the Judge ruled in our favour!
For me, having never appeared in a court before (except Jury service), the whole journey has been edifying and somewhat daunting, and certainly an emotional roller coaster!
At times over the months, I wanted to jack the whole thing in, when I realised how much of my own time and effort was required, and indeed costs that I have had to bear, with the thought of how much more it would cost me if we lost.
However, Elliot Hammer addressed my questions and anxieties admirably as we went along, with his easy and relaxed manor and assurances.
It took nearly four hours to conclude, as it ran overtime and the Judge had to go to another case and come back while we waited. Towards the end of the judge’s summing up and adjudication, (which she did so eruditely), I started to realise we were going to win – against all my expectations! The Judge even refused them leave to appeal, but as we would expect from these people they are already applying for permission to appeal.
So the journey is NOT OVER, and we brace ourselves for their appeal - if and when it comes.
My everlasting gratitude to those who have supported me throughout, friends and strangers alike, and especially to Elliot our Solicitor who did a brilliant job putting the brief together and arguing in Court, forensically defeating the other side blow by blow.
Tom Walter - on behalf of Hampstead Pianos Ltd.

"I am very grateful with their service"

I am very grateful with their service, Efrat help me out with the process of my BRP in a very short period of time. She was always following me in every step and if it was not for her, it may have took so long.
Totally recommended, they are a very serious company to trust!

"Dream Team"

It is with great pleasure, and a large dollop of gratitude, that I write this review of Messrs Branch Austin, a law firm that is packed with talented and empathetic professionals.

I am disallowed on reviewing the circus parading as a law firm which acted, but didn’t act, for a company I was previously a director of, and then, in a conflict of interest, sided with what became 50% of the board of directors and the belligerents in this sorry tale of a group of family businesses and Board rooms gone terribly wrong.

Nevertheless, upon their taking up our cause, Messrs Branch Austin - with dream team Hal and Harender Branch at the front line - after 18 months of the Covid crisis affecting previous solicitors’ performance via burn out or indeed, most unfortunately, illness, renewed my faith not only in the competency of those involved in this tricky section of company law, but also in humanity.

What the belligerents and the previous law firm did to almost erode my faith entirely in lawyers, accountants and people over the nearly two years of bitter dispute, was within 3 months restored by Hal and Harender and their team, with wary experience now the only difference between now and those naïve concepts that were manifest pre-Covid.

What had been so sorely missing under the Circus Masters (and Mistresses) of the previous shower, along with their inability to run a bath, was now all too clear and as abundant the produce farmed in Mpumalanga, Mzanzi’s fruit basket of the East: competency; honesty; integrity; passion; empathy; courtesy; professionalism; comprehension; wisdom; knowledge; expertise; SAVOIR FAIRE.

What can I say? Branch Austin were Olympic Gold. And the others? Why, they were the pits, man. Truly.

Honorary mention: Frances Steel

"Excellent service from Miriam Spero on…"

Excellent service from Miriam Spero on will drafting. Would highly recommend!

"Understanding and thorough"

My husband has Alzheimers and we were referred to Miriam Spero at Branch Austin as a solicitor who has expereince with Dementia clients. We needed someone who could manage the will preparation in a understanding and sympathetic way. Miriam was excellent and put my husband at ease and helped him through the process. I would thoroughly recommend her. We visited the office on 2 occasions and encountered a friendly and helpful team.

"Branch Austin"

Tania Austin has guided me succesfully through several complex property transactions in recent years. I am happy to recommend her firm.

"Outstanding solicitors"

Outstanding solicitors. In particular, Elliot Hammer, who represented me in my Employment Tribunal case, scored a very easy (and fast) win on a case that was considered by some as being "complex". Elliot is very experienced and can turn complicated issues into simple, straightforward matters, to the benefit of his clients. I would very highly recommend the firm, having worked with them on several matters. Hal Branch and Elliot Hammer and two of the most experienced and no-nonsense solicitors I have ever had the pleasure of working with.