About Mustoe Shorter Solicitors & Advocates

We aim to offer a friendly, professional and helpful legal service to the population of Weymouth and West Dorset.

Formed in 1999 by the merging of two well-established Dorset Firms, Howe & Shorter and Cousins Coombe & Mustoe, whose history can be traced back over 100 years.  We have considerable experience of dealing with the requirements of both business and private clients, in many areas of law.

The firm has 3 partners and offices in Weymouth and Dorchester.

Our Philosophy

We believe in individual attention to clients as well as the traditional values expected of solicitors:

• Competence
• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Time can be important when dealing with some issues. Prompt and immediate advice, combined with the right sort of action, can resolve long-term conflicts as well as avoid lengthy (and costly) litigation.

Our services to you

To all clients, we aim to offer friendly and helpful advice in a relaxed environment.

Many years of practising in Dorset have given the firm a reputation unsurpassed in the local community.

Mustoe Shorter Solicitors & Advocates are:

• Contractors to the Community Legal Service (Legal Aid for civil and family cases)
• Contractors to the Criminal Defence Service (Legal Aid for criminal cases)
• Members of the Law Society Children Panel

We are commited to providing legal services to all, whether funded by legal aid, no win no fee or on a private paying basis.

Legal Statement

Our website and what we say in it are intended as a general guide to the firm and we who work in it.  What we say here is not legal or professional advice. When we give you that, then you can rely upon it. We do not accept responsibility for what is given in information found in the content of any of the links in this website on to other websites.

Privacy Statement

We do all we can to protect your privacy, on or off-line.

We may ask you to provide us with personal details that help us to gain a better understanding of how we can advise you.

This information is confidential and will only be passed on to people in the firm who need to know about it. Any information passed to us by any means will not be disclosed to any third parties without your permission.

Please note that the internet (including e-mail systems) is never a totally secure medium.  Because of this, we cannot guarantee the permanent confidentiality of information supplied to us electronically