Crockett & Co Solicitors was formed in 1991 by Helen Crockett who was at the time the only female Sole Practitioner/Solicitor in Leeds. Helen is a member of the Children Panel and also the Family Law Advanced Panel. The practice was based in Park Square in the centre of Leeds until 1993 when it moved to its present location in Harehills, being at the heart of the Leeds community it serves to help.
Here at Crockett & Co we know that even choosing and making that first contact with a solicitor can be a daunting and scary prospect. No doubt if you require our services, you are already going through a difficult time in your private and family life. We pride ourselves in providing a personal service, so from the moment that you make contact with us, you can be assured that you are in a safe and caring pair of hands. All our teams, from our receptionist to our most senior solicitors, are friendly, approachable and down to earth. We aim to provide sensible, honest and jargon free advice at all times, whilst maintaining the highest level of professionalism and dedication to your case. Our team has a wealth of experience dealing with the most complex of matters that can come before the family court.
The practice includes our Principal Solicitor, Helen Crockett and our team listed on our team page.
The firms primary focus is childcare law, including care proceedings where children are removed from their parents due to neglect, injury, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or beyond parental control, plus non-molestation injunctions, private law children proceedings and divorce.
We are able to take on urgent legal work and represent you in a court hearing, often the same day. We believe passionately that everybody, whatever their circumstances or background, has the right to be represented to keep them safe from harm and injury. Crockett & Co are based in Harehills, Leeds and take on clients from Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield, across West Yorkshire and beyond.
The firm accepts instructions from both publicly funded and private paying clients. Please speak to a member of our team to discuss potential costs and packages available.
The practice has formed close ties with Womens Aid and Gipsil, has connections with many local primary schools and operates a drop in centre for the local community at the office on a daily basis.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilises various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilise an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilises an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimises its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimisation: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimisation: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to