For solicitors, chambers, legal advisers and McKenzie friends
The evidence work your fee earner should not be doing.
Chronology, indexing, bundle preparation and gap analysis are essential, chargeable at your rate, and rarely the best use of it. We do that work to your instruction, at a flat fee, and hand it back referenced and ready to use.
You keep the client, the conduct of the matter and the advice. We never touch any of the three.
First instruction is quoted before you commit, and we will tell you if the file does not need us.
What we take off your desk
Instructed work, delivered to your standard
Chronology and index
Every dated event pulled from the file into one continuous, page-referenced timeline, with a numbered document index behind it.
Bundle preparation
Indexed, paginated and consistent, in the order the tribunal or court reads it, ready to file.
Disclosure examination
What was disclosed, what was withheld, what has been altered and what the metadata shows. Findings, with the limits stated.
Statement and application support
Your client's account structured, dated and tied to documents, for you to review, advise on and settle.
Witness Room preparation
Your client rehearsed under structured questioning before they are asked for real, so their evidence holds up.
Gap and risk note
The short document nobody has time to write: what is missing, what is weak, and what the other side will go for.
Rate card
A flat fee that covers most matters, then tiers
One price for the ordinary file, so you can quote your client with confidence. Larger files move to the next tier and nowhere else — no hourly creep, no surprise uplift, and the tier is confirmed in writing before we start.
Flat fee
The standard instruction. Most private family, employment and small commercial files sit here.
- Referenced chronology and document index
- Written gap and risk note
- Up to 500 pages of material
- Delivered in 10 working days
Tier 2
Heavier disclosure, several parties, or a matter that has been running for years.
- Everything in the flat fee
- Conflicting-account comparison
- Sub-chronologies by issue
- Delivered in 10 working days
Tier 3
Large or long-running files. Above 3,000 pages we quote, and the quote is fixed.
- Everything in tier 2
- Full written evidence report
- Index built for the hearing bundle
- Named point of contact throughout
Add to any instruction
Bundle preparation
£250 per bundle. Indexed, paginated, consistent and ready to file.
Statement drafting support
£250 per statement. Your client's words, structured and evidenced, for you to settle.
Witness Room session
£295 per client session. Structured questioning before they are asked for real.
Volume and standing instructions
Firms sending us work regularly move onto a monthly account with agreed turnaround rather than a fee per matter. Tell us the volume and we will price it.
McKenzie friends and lay advisers
A reduced flat fee, because your clients are paying out of their own pocket
You are usually the only support a litigant in person has, and you are working without a firm behind you. The work you need is the same work: a chronology that holds, a bundle a judge can follow, and a note of what is missing.
Adviser rate
The flat fee at the adviser rate, for McKenzie friends, lay advisers and not-for-profit support services.
- Referenced chronology and document index
- Written gap and risk note
- Bundle preparation available as an add-on
- Same standard of work, lower fee
Work in your name
The pack is a working document for you and your client. We do not contact the court, the other side or anyone else in the matter.
We will say what we cannot do
Where a matter genuinely needs a solicitor or counsel, we will tell you and your client plainly, in writing.
How instructing works
Four steps, no account to open
1. Send the matter
Email us the scope and an approximate page count. No portal, no onboarding, no minimum spend.
2. Fixed quote and tier
We confirm the tier, the fee and the delivery date in writing before any work starts.
3. Secure transfer
You send the material by a route you are satisfied with. We are ICO registered and will sign your data processing agreement.
4. Delivered referenced
Chronology, index and gap note, every line traceable to a page, in a format you can drop straight into your file.
The boundary, stated plainly. ORVIA Oversight Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA. We do not give legal advice, we do not conduct litigation, we do not act as an advocate and we do not hold ourselves out as an expert witness under Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules. We carry out factual evidence work to your instruction; the advice, the conduct of the matter and the client relationship remain entirely yours.
Send us one file and see.
Most firms start with a single matter at the flat fee. If the work is not better than what you would have produced under time pressure, do not send a second one.