Vincents Solicitors boost to family team

By Vincents Solicitors

10 Apr 2014

Preston-based Vincents Solictors has expanded its family law team.

Allan Pickup joins the family team and will be based at the Vincents headquarters in Winckley Square, Preston. He follows former colleague Val Shaw who joined Vincents last year.

Both have been members of the Children’s Panel for more than 15 years, a status also recently achieved by colleague Kathryn Dodds. Only solicitors who undertake specialist training, and demonstrate significant experience of children’s cases and care proceedings, can be invited to the panel by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority.

The family team also welcomes new legal executive Sarah Lloyd to assist with the growing workload.

Allan, who sits as a Deputy District Judge in the North West, is an expert in care proceedings. He also undertakes a substantive amount of courtroom advocacy on behalf of family clients.

He said: “I’m delighted to be working with such an experienced team here at Vincents, and pleased to bring my expertise to a fast growing business. I’m looking forward to building on existing relationships with officers of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and working with new clients across the county.

“Children’s law is an extremely specialised area and there is no substitute for experience. In almost 30 years of practice I have worked on some difficult, and complex, cases acting for parents in some cases, and for the children in others, when instructed by their court appointed guardian, to ensure the best interests of the child are always at the forefront of the case.

“Understanding the psychological and emotional impact on families who become involved in family proceedings, particularly those involving children, and helping all parties through the process, is as important as the principles of law. We have three specialist experts in the firm all of whom have considerable understanding of the issues and the experience to support parents, the children, grandparents or other family members and in some cases even the foster carers who require advice, assistance and advocacy in relation to the issues which arise.”

Allan is the latest in a string of new appointments as the firm expands right across the business.

Director Mark Mosley, head of family law at Vincents, said: “As a firm we are having to grow in order to meet the demands of new instructions across all our departments. In particular we identified the benefits both Val and Allan would bring to the family team for our existing clients, and have confidence their reputation will see them bring in new business and referrals from across the region. I’m also delighted to congratulate Kathryn on her appointment to the Children’s Panel.” In addition to the family law team, Vincents is investing heavily in its service to residential property customers and is seeking to recruit upto eight people, a mix of lawyers and administrative staff, to deal with an increase in residential conveyancing. Other priorities include the specialist elderly services team – Carepal – based in Colne, and additional support has recently been announced for regional offices in Longridge, Garstang and Lytham.

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