About

The firm which became Mears Hobbs & Durrant was founded at the end of the 19th Century by Daniel Havers whose family have a strong legal background and counts amongst its members Sir Michael Havers (a former Attorney General), Baroness Butler-Sloss (the first female judge to sit in the Court of Appeal) and Sir Michael's son, actor Nigel Havers. Daniel Havers later took into partnership Bernard Durrant and by 1930 the firm had become Daniel Havers and Durrant. Bernard Durrant’s son Michael succeeded his father in the practice after the second world war.

Since then the Lowestoft office of Mears Hobbs and Durrant has developed into a well respected High Street firm dealing with non-contentious work.