Percy Hughes & Roberts Solicitors / Our People

• Alison Beech
  Originally from Warwickshire, Alison moved to the North West when she studied law at the University of Liverpool and the College of Law in Chester. Afterwards she trained with solicitors, Percy Hughes & Roberts in Birkenhead, qualifying as a solicitor in 1989.
  
  In 2001, Alison became Partner and the Practice Director, where her role is to run the practice which includes marketing and business development. In addition she is the firm's compliance and quality standards partner.
• Mark Bland
  Mark has been with Percy Hughes & Roberts for more than 30 years, having qualified as a solicitor in 1977.
  He specialises in Employment Law and Business Services. He has a wealth of experience as an advocate in the Employment Tribunal and has also lectured many times on Employment Law subjects.
  He also deals with Probate and Inheritance disputes.
  Mark has also been active in the voluntary sector for many years with the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), Council for Voluntary Service and Victim Support organisations: acting as a trustee and management committee member.
• Carol Edwards
  Carol is Wirral born and bred. She has worked for over 20 years in the legal and property sector as a secretary / assistant in the fields of domestic Conveyancing and Wills Trusts and Probate. Carol joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in July 2005.
  
  She is a Wills Trusts Probate Executive dealing with day to day administration of Probate files and Probate property sales.
• Gareth Edwards
  Gareth qualified in 1998 after undertaking his training contract with Percy Hughes & Roberts.
  
  He specialises in property transactions and heads the property department.
• Vicky Evans
  Vicky joined Percy Hughes & Roberts after qualifying as a solicitor in 2005.
  
  She works in the property department where initially she dealt with both commercial and residential property transactions, including volume plot purchases and sales. She now deals exclusively with commercial property transactions including lease drafting, sales and purchases of businesses and commercial premises.
• John Hassall
  John qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and has over 25 years experience acting for claimants in personal injury cases. He handles claims arising from accidents at work, public liability, exposure to asbestos, industrial disease and serious road traffic accidents.
  His work includes serious brain and spinal injury cases, fatal accidents, claims against the police and professional negligence litigation.
• Lindsey Knowles
  Lindsey qualified in 2007 having completed her training contract with Percy Hughes & Roberts. Lindsey specialises in all aspects of employment law and represents both employers and employees in Tribunal. Lindsey is an active member of the Employment Law Committee of the Liverpool Law Society and gives legal seminars to local businesses.
• Sarah Marriott
  Sarah joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in 2002 and is a Conveyancing Executive in the Property department.
  
  Sarah specialises in relation to all aspects of buy to let transactions and represents a portfolio of both private and commercial landlords.
• Vanessa Oldfield
  Vanessa is a Licensed Conveyancer. She has worked in the Property Department of Percy Hughes & Roberts since 2000.
  
  She deals with residential conveyancing including sales, purchases, transfers of equity and remortgages on behalf of private clients.
• Tony Parkins
  Tony Joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in July 2007 and is a solicitor dealing with Commercial Dispute Resolution Debt Recovery.
  
  After completing his Law degree at Lancaster University Tony went to work for a Hedge Fund Management Company in London and then went on to work in South Korea and Japan before returning to undertake the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Chester. During his studies at the College of Law Tony was part of the Legal Advice Center offering pro bono advice.
• Wendy Randall
  Wendy qualified as a solicitor in 1988 and has been with Percy Hughes and Roberts since 2002.
  
  Wendy specialises in the preparation of wills and trusts, administering estates and preparing Lasting Power of Attorney deeds and dealing with applications to the Court of Protection.
• Jackie Smith
  Jackie qualified as a solicitor in 1981. She has been with Percy Hughes & Roberts since 1986 and is the firm's Managing Partner.
  
  Jackie also heads the Dispute Resolution Department and specialises in spinal and brain injuries, insurance litigation and commercial disputes.
  
  The firm has a long history of working closely with the Liverpool Law Society and Jackie has been a member of the Society's Civil Litigation Committee since 1998.
• Lynne Swanson
  Lynne is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives. She joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in 1987
  Lynne has vast experience of debt collection, law and procedure. She has a acquired a reputation with national and international clients for recovering debts from 'won't pay debtors' and over the years has recovered millions.
  Lynne also specialises in residential possession proceedings and recovery of rent and service charge arrears.
• Ruth Tibbett
  Ruth Tibbett qualified in 1989 and joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in 2003. Ruth specialises in all areas of family legal work particularly financial and children issues upon divorce or cohabitation breakdown. Ruth is an accredited member of Resolution, a group of family law specialists following an approach that encourages solutions rather than confrontation and takes into account the needs of the whole family - and in particular the needs of any children.
  
  Ruth is a member of the Law Society and is on the Family Business Sub-Committee of the Liverpool Law Society. Ruth is also a member of the Birkenhead Court Users Committee and the Birkenhead Court family Users Forum.
• Helen Townley
  Helen qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and joined the Personal Injury Department at Percy Hughes & Roberts in February 2005.
  
  Helen acts for clients all over the country bringing claims against their former employers for Industrial Diseases. She also acts for clients who have had accidents at work and deals with Professional Negligence cases.
• Nicki Welch
  Nicki joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in 2001 and is a Family Law Executive.
  
  Nicki specialises in children law both in private and care proceedings. She also deals with divorce and injunctions.
  
  Nicki is a member of Resolution (formerly Solicitors Family Law Association).
  
  Nicki attends the Zero centre in Birkenhead which is Wirral's only dedicated domestic abuse drop in centre. The Zero centre supports abused women, children and males under 18 and run programmes which help abused women and children.
• Emily Dejon-Stewart
  Emily joined Percy Hughes and Roberts in 2008. She qualified as a solicitor in 2010 and specialises in Wills, Trusts and Probate.
  Originally from Paris, Emily studied French law at the Universities of Avignon and Lille. Emily is a native French speaker and also speaks conversational Danish. She moved to the UK in December 1999 and studied British law with the College of Law Birmingham and Chester. She has successfully completed both her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course.
• Karl Veidman
  Karl joined Percy Hughes & Roberts in June 2011 as an employment adviser working with Mark Bland.
  
  Karl completed his Law Degree in 2007 and his LPC in 2009, studying part time at Liverpool John Moores University whilst working full time.