Yes, lots of certification options, some free. Unfortunately most think only of a solicitor. It's like going to a restaurant and automatically choosing the most expensive item on the menu.
Also, you got unlucky with your solicitor. If you think they've been very unfair/greedy, ask for a part-refund unless too long ago. If they refuse and you're prepared to put in time and effort then say you'll contact the Law Society (they might then part-refund). I don't know today's procedure in detail, but contacting the Law Society involves a small non-refundable fee and submitting paper evidence - details probably on their website. That the solicitors advertised their fees and you agreed in advance to pay could count against you but won't necessarily do so. I've reported a solicitors to the Law Society so I speak from a little experience*.
Acting as an Attorney (three times) I had to get bank statements certified, but I didn't use a solicitor, nor even a free certifying option. I sent photocopies, with a covering letter saying they were photocopies and if they wanted certified copies to send me a cheque for £amount to cover it, or apply direct to my solicitor and to pay him direct, or they could contact the bank at their own expense; all several recipients accepted the photocopies without query and none chose those options. With the Lasting Power of Attorney document that eventually went to 100+ organisations, I got the solicitor to certify a small number (yes it was expensive) as certain organisations accept (or actually just say they accept) only original certified copies; then I sent out the photocopies, saying they were photocopies of a certified copy; I also sent them out redacted (and said so) as certain pieces of info in an LPA are gifts to ID-thieves. There's often no need to pay a solicitor or to pay anyone.
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The one and only time I reported a firm of solicitors to the Law Society was. on being unwillingly elected to the volunteer board of my residents association, when I noticed the solicitors had taken my residents association's case to the High Court where only (expensive) barristers are allowed audience = you must hire a barrister, as the solicitors had mistakenly included the VAT in the sum, yet the ex-VAT sum could be dealt with in a lower court (less expensive). My predecessor had allowed the case, in monetary terms, to start exceeding the sum contested so I had to act. The Law Society ordered the solicitors to refund us all £Ks fees except £100 + VAT for the initial interview. I sacked the solicitors. I negotiated with the other party's solicitors until we came to a mutually unsatisfactory agreement, while both knowing the court option remained.
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