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Jane Simpson is a family lawyer who specialised in complex ancillary relief cases and those involving children. [1] Simpson is a trained marriage guidance counselor and collaborative lawyer. She was the founder and head of the family law department at Manches LLP, a UK law firm, as well as its chairwoman.
May 20, 2021 · For part 3 of this series we hear from Jane Simpson, who was a senior solicitor and Chair of the SFLA during the Ancillary Relief Procedural Scheme. My story begins in 1982 when John Cornwell (now sadly deceased) invited me to help him launch the Solicitors’ Family Law Association (SFLA), now known as Resolution.
Jane Simpson is a family lawyer who specialised in complex ancillary relief cases and those involving children. [1] Simpson is a trained marriage guidance counselor and collaborative lawyer. She was the founder and head of the family law department at Manches LLP, a UK law firm, as well as its chairwoman.
- A Long Line of Penningtons Partners
- Lewis & Lewis Joins Forces with Pennington & Son
- Manches Set Up by Pioneering Husband and Wife Partnership
- Expanding Out of London
- Into The 21st Century
In 1855, Richard Pennington was admitted to Mr Scott’s firm, Cookson, Wainewright and Co, and, after ten years as managing clerk, he became a partner. By 1893 he had become the President of the Law Society and the firm, now called Pennington & Son, moved to 64 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Following Richard’s death in 1910, his son, Herbert, ran the practi...
In 1964, another firm with a long and illustrious history joined forces with Pennington & Son to form Penningtons and Lewis & Lewis. The latter was founded in 1834 by two brothers, James Graham Lewis and George Coleman Hamilton Lewis. James’ son, George Henry Lewis was one of the most famous solicitors in the history of the profession. He was a par...
Manches was founded in 1936 by Sidney Manches in a single room in what is now Broadgate. He and his wife Judith were the first husband and wife to practise in partnership. In 1956 they moved to Wigmore Street and in 1990 the firm's London office moved to Aldwych House. Peter Angel opened the Oxford office in 1982 and the Reading office was opened i...
Penningtons sold its lease in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1971 and moved to 99 Aldwych. In 1972 part of the firm moved out of London to Godalming where we built our own office in 1984. A merger with Ward Bowie in 1986 brought with it more ‘out of London’ offices in Newbury, Bournemouth and Basingstoke. Following mergers with Lincoln’s Inn firm Gamlens ...
The new century started with a major rebrand and the introduction of the P logo as the core distinctive element of the Penningtons corporate identity. In 2005, after centuries of being an unlimited liability partnership, the firm converted to a limited liability partnership (LLP) in step with many other professional practices. The next major change...
This is a brief guide to help you with your research into coroners’ inquests. The majority of post mid-18th century records of inquests are held at local archives and not The National Archives....
Solicitor Kevin Winters, of KRW Law, said he has now been instructed by a “number of the close family relatives”, including Ms Simpson’s parents, to take legal action “over police failings ...
Jul 19, 2020 · Her father died in an accident on the London Underground when she was nine and, in 1945, she moved to Merthyr Tydfil when her mother married Russell Evans, a solicitor, and the family settled in Cefn-Coed, with the young Shirley taking her step-father’s surname and adopting Jane as her first name.
