- SRA number
- 596443
- Authorisation
- Recognised body
- Authorised since
- 8 May 2013
- Organisation type
- Recognised body, authorised
- Constitution
- Partnership
- Practising offices
- 1
- Head office
- Poole BH14 0JR
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 1: Criminal
- Website (SRA record)
- jamesmoore-solicitor.co.uk
- Head office phone
- 01202 710000
- Trading names
- Waters Moore at the Law Chambers
- SRA firms in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- 56 (33 residential property)
Waters Moore is a recognised body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since May 2013 and recorded under SRA number 596443. The SRA record lists 1 practising office: the head office at 23 Briggs House, Poole, BH14 0JR. It also trades as Waters Moore at the Law Chambers. Its constitution is recorded as partnership.
In its most recent annual return the firm told the SRA it delivered work in 1 area of law: 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 BH14 0JR falls within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (South West), where the SRA register lists 56 authorised firms with a practising office, 33 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are G & T Solicitors (same postcode, Poole), Coles Miller Solicitors LLP (1.5 km, Poole), Clarke Rowe Solicitors LTD (1.6 km, Poole), ILA Law Ltd (1.6 km, Poole) and Simmonds (1.8 km, Poole). 3 of those 5 report residential property work.
The SRA records the firm's constitution as partnership, a structure with no Companies House registration, so there is no company record to cross-reference; the SRA authorisation record is the only public register entry for the firm.
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | 23 Briggs House, 26 Commercial Road, Poole, BH14 0JR | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 01202 710000 |
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.
Nearest SRA-regulated firms
- G & T Solicitors · Poolesame postcode
- Coles Miller Solicitors LLP · Poole · residential property1.5 km
- Clarke Rowe Solicitors LTD · Poole · residential property1.6 km
- ILA Law Ltd · Poole1.6 km
- Simmonds · Poole · residential property1.8 km
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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.