About
Provided by Susan Howarth & Company Solicitors
A highly trained, considerably deep and experienced bench, the Lexcel-accredited and award-winning Family Law team:
- offers a full range of services to private & publicly funded clients - key experience in finance, children, family & injunction matters.
- efficiently delivers to those eligible for legal aid by means of a Family Law Contract with the Legal Aid Agency.
- is recognised by clients/peers/counsel/members of the judiciary/council safeguarding as a leading niche family practice (North).
- is consistently recommended, with high retention rates.
- fully embodies the firm ethos; everyone has the right to access to justice.
Susan Howarth - strategic direction in all family law & high-value financial remedy matters.
Victoria Poole - Resolution & FMC accredited; expertise in complex high-net-worth complex matters, agricultural & pension-related disputes, children, family & injunction cases.
Nicola Deakin – Resolution-accredited; specialises in family & children; work highlights incl. representation in Parental Responsibility applications, child relocation proceedings, complicated Child Arrangement Orders.
Deborah Turner - specialises in all family law, with a portfolio of high-value financial remedy mandates.
David Bannister - highly active on a range of family & divorce cases involving complex financial remedies.
Sonia Rickard - Law Society Children Panel member, specialist in Child Care law; complex cases incl. care proceedings, adoption, special guardianship, discharge of care.