This one did not arrive in our inbox. It arrived in our search box. This week, visitors to our website started searching our scams directory for “Jones Hedley”, and nothing came up. So we looked.
What we found is a trademark website, joneshedley.co.uk, registered on the evening of Monday 26 October 2026 and using the name and address of a real firm of solicitors in Cardiff. It is built in the same way, and sells the same packages at the same prices, as the Applegate Legal Services and Hear Law websites we have already written about.
Nobody has forwarded us an email or letter from it yet. If you have searched for Jones Hedley because one landed with you, we would like to see it, and we will update this page as we learn more.
Is Jones Hedley a real law firm?
Yes. Jones Hedley Limited is on the SRA register as a recognised body, SRA number 647731, and has been authorised since 2017. It has been registered at Companies House since February 2018, company number 11230647, and its accounts and confirmation statements are filed on time. Its registered office, and its head office on the SRA register, is 54 Kimberley Road, Cardiff, CF23 5DL.
That is the address on joneshedley.co.uk. The Cardiff phone number on the website matches it too.
The firm’s SRA record lists no website, email address or phone number, and we have not found a website of its own anywhere online.
What does the joneshedley.co.uk website say?
It sells UK trademark registration in three packages, Basic at £199, Deluxe at £299 and Premium at £449, each plus the UKIPO fee, along with trademark searches and monitoring. It gives the Kimberley Road address, the phone number +44 2922550420 and the email address info@joneshedley.co.uk.
It also says:
- “100% Trademark Approval Rate”, alongside “95% Client Satisfaction Rate”, “88% Cost Savings Delivered”, “76% Global Client Coverage” and “85% Trademark Disputes Resolved”, with no explanation of how any of them were worked out.
- “We guarantee that your application is correct and has the best possibility of being accepted.”
- Eight reviews, each with a first name and an initial, and nothing else.
What do the registers show?
The website is days old. joneshedley.co.uk was registered at 8.04pm on Monday 26 October 2026, through the registrar Dynadot, on Namecheap shared hosting. A free WHOIS lookup shows the date to anyone who checks. The firm whose name it carries has been authorised for nine years.
The website is not on the firm’s SRA record. The record lists no website at all.
Jones Hedley has never acted on a UK trademark. The UK trademark register shows no trademark representative of that name, and no trademark owned by Jones Hedley. A firm selling trademark registration would normally appear as the representative on its clients’ applications.
No SRA number, no company number. SRA-regulated firms must show their SRA number and regulated status on their websites under the SRA Transparency Rules. joneshedley.co.uk shows neither, and no company number or VAT number either. It names no solicitor, director or member of staff.
The website says it is not a law firm. Jones Hedley Limited is an SRA-authorised law firm. The terms and conditions on joneshedley.co.uk say: “We are not a law entity. We do not provide, and are not qualified to provide you with legal advice.” They describe the business as “a technology platform that aids in the creation of forms and not a law entity or legal service provider”. That second sentence is word for word the one on the Applegate Legal Services website.
Nobody can guarantee approval. Nobody can promise that the UKIPO will accept an application. The examiner, and anyone who opposes it, decides that.
The terms were written for somewhere else. They include a class action waiver, a jury trial waiver and a release clause based on California’s Civil Code, none of which fit a UK trademark service.
Is this connected to Applegate Legal Services and Hear Law?
The websites are built the same way. All three were bought through Dynadot on Namecheap shared hosting with the same email set-up, all three sell trademark packages at £199, £299 and £449, and their terms share sentences, some of them word for word. The Jones Hedley website sits on a different web server address from the Applegate one.
| Hear Law | Applegate Legal Services | Jones Hedley | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firm authorised by the SRA | 2 Oct 2026 | 28 Sep 2026 | 2017 |
| Website (.co.uk) registered | 13 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Registrar and hosting | Dynadot, Namecheap | Dynadot, Namecheap | Dynadot, Namecheap |
| Packages | £199 / £299 / £449 | £199 / £299 / £449 | £199 / £299 / £449 |
| Terms say “not a law entity” or “not a law firm” | yes | yes | yes |
| Website on the firm’s SRA record | none | none | none |
| Notice or letter seen by us | yes | yes | not yet |
We do not know who is behind any of these websites, or whether they are all connected. We are gathering more information.
One thing has changed. Hear Law and Applegate Legal Services had both been authorised by the SRA only weeks before their names were used. Jones Hedley has been authorised since 2017. What the three firms have in common is that none has a website on its SRA record, and we have found no website of Jones Hedley’s own anywhere. A firm like that is easy to borrow, because when someone searches its name, the borrowed website may be the only thing they find.
Did Jones Hedley build this website?
We cannot say who built it. Nothing on the public registers links Jones Hedley Limited to joneshedley.co.uk, and we cannot rule out that the firm set it up itself. But a firm of solicitors does not usually describe itself as “not a law entity”, leave its SRA number off its own website, or sell trademark registration having never acted on a UK trademark.
Have we contacted the firm?
We have tried. The firm’s SRA record gives no phone number, email address or website, Companies House gives only its registered office, and we have found no other contact details for it online. If you are at Jones Hedley, or know how to reach the firm, please get in touch. If the firm, or anyone else named here, would like to respond, we will publish the response in full.
What does this mean for an established law firm?
Until now, the firms whose names were used in this pattern were brand new. This one is not. Nine years of authorisation, accounts filed on time, and then a stranger buys a domain in the firm’s name on a Monday evening and starts selling trademark services under it.
If your firm has no website, or a very small one, three things help. Put your website on your SRA record, because “is this website on the firm’s record?” is the first question anyone should ask. Search your own firm’s name now and again, and look for domains you did not register; if you find one, a website takedown request to the host and registrar is usually the quickest route. And register your firm’s name as a UK trademark. Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service does not strictly require one, but it is the simplest proof of your rights that you can hand over.
Is AI making these harder to spot?
Yes. This website follows the Applegate one closely, down to the prices and sentences in its terms, and a site like it can be put together in an afternoon. Polish is no longer a signal.
What still gives it away is the practice behind it: a law firm’s name on a website that says it is not a law entity, no SRA number where the rules require one, a guarantee nobody can give, and a domain registered this week for a firm that has existed for nine years.
How do you spot your own name being used like this?
Nothing checks, when a domain is registered, whether the buyer has any right to the name. Here, the first sign was people searching for the firm on somebody else’s website. That is why TMH Monitoring covers domain registrations and social media accounts as well as the trademark registers. A trademark watch tells you about applications; it does not tell you about a domain registered on a Monday evening.
What to look out for
- The firm’s own record. Search the SRA register for the firm by name. Does its record list the website you are looking at?
- An SRA number on the website. A regulated firm must show one. If it is missing, ask why.
- How old the website is. A free WHOIS lookup shows when a domain was registered. This one was registered on 26 October 2026.
- The terms and conditions. Read them before you pay. These say “we are not a law entity”.
- A guarantee of approval. Nobody can guarantee the UKIPO will accept an application.
- A correct address. It proves nothing. Registered addresses are public, and this one is accurate.
The same pattern runs through our warnings on Applegate Legal Services, Hear Law, Fenrick & Stone and RSK Legal. Our guide on how to spot trademark scams before they cost you covers it in full, and the complete directory is at trademark scams.
What to do if you have been contacted
- Don’t pay, and don’t reply to a deadline. Check first.
- Send it to us. Call 0161 833 5400 or forward it, and we will tell you what the registers show. No charge, no obligation.
- Report it. The IPO publishes guidance on misleading trademark payment requests and collects these at misleadinginvoices@ipo.gov.uk. If money has changed hands, contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040. If a law firm’s name has been used, tell the SRA.
- Want a trademark registered? Check the name first with our free trademark search, and use a representative you can find on the UK trademark register and, for a law firm, on the SRA register.
- Stop the letters arriving. Our Care of Address service puts our address on your trademark record instead of yours.
Have you heard from Jones Hedley?
If you searched for Jones Hedley because an email, letter or call reached you, please send it to us. Redact whatever you like. It will help us, and the firm whose name is on the website, work out what is going on, and we will update this page as we learn more.
Questions about this
Is joneshedley.co.uk the website of Jones Hedley Limited?
We cannot say who runs it. Jones Hedley Limited is a genuine firm of solicitors in Cardiff, authorised by the SRA since 2017, and its SRA record lists no website. joneshedley.co.uk was registered on 26 October 2026, uses the firm’s registered address, shows no SRA number, and its terms say it is not a law entity. Nothing on the public registers links the two.
Answered by Jonathan Paton, Founder & CEOIs the Jones Hedley website connected to Applegate Legal Services and Hear Law?
The websites were bought through the same registrar on the same shared hosting, use the same email set-up, sell the same three packages at £199, £299 and £449, and share sentences in their terms. We do not know who is behind any of them, and the law firms whose names were used are all real.
Answered by Jonathan Paton, Founder & CEOHow can I check whether a law firm’s website is genuine?
Search the SRA register for the firm by name and check whether its record lists the website. Look for the SRA number and regulated status on the website itself, which regulated firms must show. Run a free WHOIS lookup to see when the domain was registered. And read the terms before paying anything.
Answered by Jonathan Paton, Founder & CEO
