Forces Covered
Professional Profile
Louise is a Solicitor based in our London office on Chancery Lane. Louise advises clients concerning divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, ancillary relief, cohabitation and children matters. She represents officers from Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire and Northampton as well as Metropolitan Police officers.
As a member of Resolution, Louise is committed in resolving matters on a non-confrontational basis but will not hesitate to commence Court proceedings when required. She is also mindful of clients' costs and therefore adopts a progressive approach to matters as well as providing practical advice to her clients. Louise is also aware of the sensitive nature of her work and the difficult path leading up to her clients coming to her for advice.
Louise obtained her law degree from Birmingham University. She also understands basic Cantonese.
Louise's recent work includes:
Being involved in a range of matters being heard in local County Courts to the Royal Courts of Justice. She has also dealt with complicated Children Act applications concerning residence, contact, guardianship, leave to remove a child from the jurisdiction and advised an ex-pat how to recover their child removed from their home in Spain.
Police client
Our client was married for approximately 21 years. This matter involved a great deal of correspondence and issues being raised by the other side concerning disclosure, namely accusations that our client was witholding information. Wife issued ancillary relief proceedings and sought an actuaries report on the basis that if a pension share was granted then the CETV provided by the pension providers were not an accurate reflection of it's value and that future values should be sought. Both agreed amicably to commission an actuaries report whilst wife's solicitor continued to bombard us with correspondence claiming lack of disclosure and conduct and a clear lack of understanding of how the police pensions work. Upon the production of the actuaries report it was confirmed as we had indicated in correspondence that the CETV provided by the pension provider should be used if a pension share was to take effect. Total costs at that point for wife were approximately £25,000 and they sought to raise conduct to seek costs for the wife. Our client's costs were able to be kept at a minimum after extensive disclosure, production of an actuaries report and various offers being sent back and forth to approximately £11,000 due to our refusal to be drawn into tit for tat style correspondence and issues that were being raised merely to create issues. Judge indicated that wife would not be entitled to her costs due to conduct. This matter was settled at FDR and thankfully due to the expertise of RJW in ancillary relief and, in particular, police pensions, husband's costs were kept at a minimum and hald of wife's!
