It provides business and family law services and has offices in Eastbourne, Bexhill-on-Sea and Hastings, East Sussex.
In March 2011, Gaby Hardwicke was the first British law firm to serve a court summons via Facebook.
[2] The firm was founded in 1889 by Dr Frederick Goodwin, a former Gladstonian candidate for Bury St Edmunds, who three years later was joined in practice by Ralph Hale Gaby.
[3] Goodwin left the partnership in 1894,[4] most probably due to ill health (he died in 1897 of heart disease),[5] leaving Gaby to continue alone.
He was joined by other partners, including J. M Baldry, G. G. Herbert and A. J. Arscott,[10] and was still practising law at the time of his death at age 83 in 1965.