About Us
Scotts Wright is a firm of Solicitors with offices spreading from Hawes in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to our Catterick Garrison office situated in the centre of Europe's largest British Army Garrison.
We pride ourselves on supporting the local community and are ideally located to serve the legal needs of
the Dales, Catterick Garrison and North Yorkshire and we do have long term relationships with many clients extending
on a nationwide basis.
The firm has a long legacy and can trace its roots back as far
back as 1831. In more recent times, Mr Malcolm E Scott
opened his legal practice in 1931 and we have traded as Scotts Wright since our merger with Christopher Wright in 1998.
We provide a range of legal services from all
aspects of property law, to specialist inheritance tax planning, matrimonial finance advice and child care law to
debt recovery, personal injury and court martial.
We have extensive local knowledge which allows us to offer our clients the specialist service they require. The location
of our office at Catterick Garrison means we also have considerable experience dealing with matters specific to military clients.
Our News
Into The New Decade
New decades bring new challenges and demands and an ever increasing need for change if success is to be maintained. Over
recent years the firm’s policy has been to recruit, train and retain solicitors to take the firm into the future. One of our
young team qualified three years ago, two qualified last summer and a fourth (already a Fellow of the Institute of Legal
Executives) will qualify later this year when she completes her Legal Practice Course. These four young lawyers are central
to the firm’s determination to provide its clients with the services that they will need as we all move into the new decade.
To enable the firm to concentrate with renewed vigour on its legal services a decision had to be taken to withdraw
from property sales and lettings. Scotts Wright had taken a leading role in solicitors’ move into property sales back
in 1998 when the Solicitors Property Shop moved south over the border with Scotland to set up facilities for solicitors to
sell houses, as they were already doing in Scotland. Promoting both sales and rentals through its four offices and
employing a qualified surveyor the firm was actively engaged in all aspects of property transactions on a “one stop” basis
for ten years but the new decade makes new demands and requires a different structure – one that is specialist and dedicated
yet flexible and versatile. The coming months will see developments to meet this challenge.
