Haringey or Harringay? The borough spells its name one way and the neighbourhood along Green Lanes spells it another, a fair introduction to a borough that rarely agrees with itself. The west, Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End, is leafy, Edwardian and expensive; the east, Tottenham and Northumberland Park, contains some of the most deprived wards in England. Between them sit Wood Green, Hornsey and Harringay. Haringey's solicitors are spread accordingly: legal aid and high-street practices along Wood Green High Road, Turnpike Lane and Tottenham High Road, and smaller firms in Crouch End and Muswell Hill handling property, wills and family work.
Two boroughs in one
The legal needs follow the geography. In the west, conveyancing on Victorian and Edwardian houses split into flats, lease extensions and share-of-freehold arrangements, inheritance tax planning on homes that have soared in value, and divorces in which a Muswell Hill house is the main asset. In the east, housing law: possession claims, disrepair, overcrowding, temporary accommodation and landlord licensing, together with the criminal, family and immigration work that legal aid firms on Tottenham High Road have done for decades. Tottenham's Caribbean and West African families, the Turkish and Kurdish businesses of Green Lanes and West Green Road, Greek Cypriots in Harringay, Latin Americans around Seven Sisters, Orthodox Jewish families in South Tottenham and newer arrivals from Eastern Europe all bring their own patterns of work.
Wood Green, the stadium and the Palace
Wood Green is the borough's centre: the shopping centre, the civic centre and Wood Green Crown Court on Lordship Lane, which hears jury trials from Haringey and much of north London. The borough's own magistrates' courts closed some years ago, so summary cases are mostly listed at Highbury Corner, and housing and family matters go to the county and family courts serving north London. Employment claims go to the tribunal's London Central office. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium employs thousands on match days and has driven regeneration along the High Road and at Tottenham Hale; Alexandra Palace, run by a charitable trust with the council as trustee, is a venue and an employer in its own right.
Fees and legal aid in Haringey
Haringey has more legal aid firms than most boroughs, a legacy of Tottenham's needs, and legal aid remains available for crime, housing cases involving possession or disrepair, family cases with domestic abuse and care proceedings. Otherwise, fixed fees are normal for conveyancing, wills and uncontested divorce and hourly rates for disputes, and many firms offer a short free first meeting. Check home insurance for legal expenses cover, and read whether you can get legal help for free. Every firm on the site is regulated by the SRA; featured firms have also passed the site's verification checks.
Finding a solicitor in Haringey
Each area of law below explains how the work is done in Haringey, with its firms listed underneath, verified first. The Haringey search finds solicitors near a particular address, from Highgate to Northumberland Park; the neighbouring boroughs have their own pages, Best Solicitors in Enfield to the north and Best Solicitors in Barnet to the west. Best Solicitors in London and the London boroughs page cover the rest of the capital, and the legal insights articles are a good place to start.
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