Across The Pond Process Service
Specialising in Serving American and Canadian Process in the UK for over 35 years.
Specialising in Serving American and Canadian Process in the UK for over 35 years.
Reliable service of process in a fraction of the usual timeframe and with the expertise to ensure the lowest possible risk of later legal challenge.
Across the Pond Process Service is UNIQUE. Our sole focus is on serving process within the UK for American and Canadian clients.
If you have transatlantic process that needs serving in London, England or anywhere else in the UK, our mission is to make what can be a very time-consuming, complicated and frustrating process run as smoothly, quickly and efficiently as possible for our clients.
Having been serving process in the UK for transatlantic clients since 1990, we have developed the experience and professional expertise to enable us to take on even the most daunting of process service challenges.
The Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (“the Hague Service Convention”) is an international treaty that you need to have in mind the moment you foresee the possibility of serving American or Canadian process in the United Kingdom.
The Convention sets out specific permissible methods to get service effected across international boundaries. We work closely with the Central Authority for England & Wales, the Senior Master of the High Court of Justice in London, as well as our UK Solicitor, to enable us to carry out Hague compliant service on a daily basis.
We offer three alternatives for process service in England and Wales, with different degrees of risk as to subsequent legal challenge – our GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE services. Our Services page will help you decide which service is most appropriate to your circumstances, and you can find out more about each type of service on its own page, through the links below.
We can also help you to navigate the complex process of serving subpoenas in the UK, where there are completely different considerations to the above.
We also offer professional skip trace services in London and the UK, should you need assistance in locating an individual for legal proceedings.
GOLD service – Article 5 of the Hague Service Convention: ENGLAND and WALES only.
SILVER service – Article 10 of the Hague Service Convention: ENGLAND and WALES only.
BRONZE service – provides for service via private process server: ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN, THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.
For Hague compliant service in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, each has its own Central Authority to whom you should apply.
We pride ourselves on the speed with which we can get your process served.
SILVER and BRONZE service can be very quick indeed – for RUSH serves we drop everything and even for ROUTINE we generally begin attempts at service within two or three working days of receiving the papers.
Proofs of service will follow within typically one to five working days.
GOLD is slower, but only slightly! On average, service takes one or two working days longer than the other two methods, but for NO other reason than that we have to wait for the court to give the go-ahead at the outset.
Because we have to liaise with the court to obtain the Hague Certificate of Service, we generally expect to be able to return the Certificate to you three weeks or so after service is achieved. But we can send you a copy of the proof of service that we submit to our court more or less immediately.
Please contact us with full details for advice and a specific quotation.
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We are a professional Process Serving Firm that has been helping American and Canadian clients serve legal papers in the UK since 1990.
If you have process that needs serving in the UK, and particularly if you are not sure which method you need, or you have never served “across the pond” before, Across The Pond Process Service can provide the solution.
Our Commitment to You
We shall meet, and endeavor to exceed, the needs and expectations of all our transatlantic clients with the highest level of professionalism.
