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Latest newsNew Agricultural ConveyancerJune 21st 2010 Kirby Simcox has appointed specialist property lawyer Liz Haydon-Turner to help develop its agricultural and commercial property practice in its Thornbury Office. Kirby Simcox, already has a successful private residential sales team but is keen to provide a specialist agricultural and business service, particularly for the South Gloucestershire region. Liz has extensive experience in the property sector. After qualifying, she specialised in commercial property within the Planning and Development team at TLT Solicitors.
She went on to work as part of the Agricultural Property team at Burges Salmon undertaking freehold and leasehold work for public bodies, private clients and public companies in connection with agri-business and small residential developments, rural conveyancing and carrying out property security reviews for major institutional lenders.
Liz joins Kirby Simcox from her most recent roles at AMD Solicitors and Peter Browne Solicitors in Bristol where she dealt with residential conveyancing, commercial property transactions and advised on the property aspects of small business sales and start ups.
Commenting on her appointment Liz said, “I am delighted to be joining the conveyancing team at Kirby Simcox which has an excellent reputation for high quality service in the region. We are keen to develop a rural/agricultural business particularly in the Thornbury area where clients will benefit from our specialist agricultural property expertise.”
Photocaption: Liz Haydon-Turner, Conveyancing Specialist at Kirby Simcox Solicitors
Kirby Simcox Team Run Bristol 10K for Tall ShipsMay 14th 2010 Six members of Kirby Simcox’s team took part in the Bristol 10K recently and raised over £350 to boost the firm’s corporate charity fundraising this year, for The Tall Ships Youth Trust. Pictured from Left to right - Jim Gridley, Jeremy Johnson, Kim Pratt, James Bell, Joelle Allen and Tom Sharkey all met up before at the start of the race for a team talk, before setting off at their different paces. The team had varying degrees of training under their belts. For example, Jim Gridley is a seasoned runner where as Tom Sharkey describes his previous running experience as gained whilst running for a bus!
All six completed the race successfully and they all thoroughly enjoyed the run which took place over a 10K circuit around Bristol City centre. Commenting Tom Sharkey said, “Although I am probably the most inexperienced of our team, I thoroughly enjoyed it. With over 8,500 runners it was a really inspiring event and I have totally caught the bug now. I have given up smoking and I am determined to continue to run.”
“Collectively we have raised approx £350 which will go into the pot for our 2010 Corporate Charity, The Tall Ships Youth Trust. It will certainly help us in our aim to raise enough funds to enable one disadvantaged youngster from Bristol, possibly one of the region’s many young carers, to take part in a life changing voyage with the Trust.
The Tall Ships Youth Trust is the world’s oldest and largest sail training charity dedicated to the education and personal development of young people through the crewing of ocean-going sail training vessels.
Accreditation for KirstenApril 30th 2010 Following a stringent test of her legal expertise, Kirby Simcox’s family lawyer Kirsten Hale is celebrating Kirsten, who qualified in 2003, has worked as part of Kirby Simcox’s large family law team since she joined the firm in 2007. She achieved the specialist accreditation status with particular specialisms in Advance Financial Provision, Private Children Law and Domestic Abuse.
To gain the accreditation Kirsten had to provide two summaries of cases she had conducted in each of her specialist areas, as well as answering detailed questions on a fictional case study for each of her specialist areas. The second stage of the assessment required Kirsten to answer detailed questions on four additional fictional case studies covering any area of family law. This examination section is made harder as it has to be completed over a weekend period with the question papers arriving with the candidate on a Friday and the completed answers having to be handed in on the following Monday.
Commenting Kirsten said, “I am delighted to have gained this Resolution Accreditation status. It was very hard work trying to combine studies with a busy full time job but is has been worth it. We now have five Resolution Accreditated Lawyers in our family team, which is one of the largest specialist family departments in the region.”
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having achieved Resolution Accreditation as a Specialist Family Lawyer.