- SRA number
- 486954
- Authorisation
- Recognised body
- Authorised since
- 1 November 2011
- Organisation type
- Recognised body, authorised
- Constitution
- Incorporated company (limited by shares)
- Practising offices
- 4 (3 branches)
- Head office
- Hove BN3 3ED
- Branch towns
- Eastbourne, St. Leonards-On-Sea, Worthing
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 2: Mental Health, Criminal
- Website (SRA record)
- bishopandlight.co.uk
- Head office phone
- 01273 732733
- Companies House status
- Active (06553927, file 1 May 2026)
- Incorporated
- 3 April 2008
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Trading names
- Bishop & Light Solicitors; Bishop & Light Incorporating Hunters
- SRA firms in Brighton and Hove
- 74 (34 residential property)
Bishop & Light Solicitors Limited is a recognised body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since November 2011 and recorded under SRA number 486954. The SRA record lists 4 practising offices: the head office at Cambridge House, Hove, BN3 3ED, plus 3 further offices in Eastbourne, St. Leonards-On-Sea and Worthing. It also trades as Bishop & Light Solicitors and Bishop & Light Incorporating Hunters. Its constitution is recorded as incorporated company (limited by shares).
In its most recent annual return the firm told the SRA it delivered work in 2 areas of law: Mental Health and Criminal. Residential property is not among the reported areas, so the firm does not appear in the conveyancing lists on this site's town and city pages.
The head office postcode BN3 3ED falls within Brighton and Hove (South East), where the SRA register lists 74 authorised firms with a practising office, 34 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are O'Sullivan Family Law LTD (100 m, Hove), Whitefields (Bidco) Limited (400 m, Hove), recLAW LLP (500 m, Hove), Goodlaw Solicitors LLP (700 m, Hove) and Eversfield & Co (700 m, Hove). 2 of those 5 report residential property work.
Companies House records the firm as BISHOP & LIGHT SOLICITORS LIMITED (company number 06553927), a private limited company incorporated on 3 April 2008, 18 years before this snapshot. Its status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026 is "Active". The registered office town is HOVE, the same as the head office.
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | Cambridge House, Cambridge Grove, Hove, BN3 3ED | Brighton and Hove | 01273 732733 |
| Branch | 5 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, BN21 4PN | Eastbourne | 01323 434822 |
| Branch | 66 Bohemia Road, St. Leonards-On-Sea, TN37 6RQ | Hastings | 01424 793015 |
| Branch | Rowland House, 65 High Street, Worthing, Worthing, BN11 1DN | Worthing | 01273 732733 |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Companies House record
BISHOP & LIGHT SOLICITORS LIMITED, company number 06553927, private limited company, incorporated 3 April 2008. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Last accounts made up to 31 March 2025 (total exemption full). Registered office town: HOVE. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.
Nearest SRA-regulated firms
- O'Sullivan Family Law LTD · Hove100 m
- Whitefields (Bidco) Limited · Hove · residential property400 m
- recLAW LLP · Hove500 m
- Goodlaw Solicitors LLP · Hove · residential property700 m
- Eversfield & Co · Hove700 m
solicitorcost.com includes data supplied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 28 August 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.