Family/Matrimonial
UK Guide 2025 : North West
Band 2
About
Provided by Slater Heelis
The team is respected by peers for providing legally and commercially sound advice, sensible case management, and empathetic client care. It is well known for its strong financial work across the North West and further afield, with a strong foothold in the South East for its competitive edge, ability, and expertise in complex financial matters.
The team offers a full range of family law services, including:
- Matrimonial finance
- Wealth protection with pre and post-marital agreements
- Schedule 1 of the Children Act (financial)
- Children disputes
- Property disputes between unmarried couples
- Inheritance Act disputes
- International family law
- International Child Abduction
- Fertility Treatment and IVF
- Islamic & Jewish Divorce
- High Net Worth Divorce
The team frequently acts for clients in multiple jurisdictions, evidencing the firm’s wide-reaching reputation. Key clients include sports and media personalities, business owners with complex company structures, and CEOs. Clients also benefit from Mark Heptinstall’s significant judicial experience as a recorder and deputy district judge.
The team is an active partner of the LGBT Foundation, providing pro-bono advice through the Foundation’s Legal Clinic and Resolution’s family legal clinic in Manchester.
All qualified fee earners are members of Resolution, and all senior fee earners are ADR trained.
Chambers Review
Slater Heelis offers family law services from offices in Manchester and Cheshire, advising on financial remedies and child residence and contact issues. It also regularly handles wealth protection agreements and inheritance claims. The team is skilled at alternative dispute resolution methods, including collaborative law, arbitration and mediation, as well as being well equipped to handle cross-border cases concerning non-UK residents and overseas assets.
Strengths
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"Slater Heelis showed a great level of expert knowledge, helping me understand the process better. They handled what was an extremely sensitive matter for me with a great level of dignity."
"Slater Heelis is very sound - a big team with consistent quality."
"The lawyers at Slater Heelis all seem well versed in their subject and they always seem to be able to help."
"I can see how invested Slater Heelis is in its clients; there's a very strong connection there."
"Slater Heelis showed a great level of expert knowledge, helping me understand the process better. They handled what was an extremely sensitive matter for me with a great level of dignity."
"Slater Heelis is very sound - a big team with consistent quality."
"The lawyers at Slater Heelis all seem well versed in their subject and they always seem to be able to help."
"I can see how invested Slater Heelis is in its clients; there's a very strong connection there."
Notable Practitioners
Mark Heptinstall heads the Slater Heelis family department in Manchester. He advises both UK and international clients on their financial and children arrangements following divorce and separation.
"Mark put me at ease instantly - I felt confident in his knowledge and professionalism."
Charlotte Beck is recognised for her experience in private children law and financial remedy proceedings.
"Charlotte does very good prep for her cases and provides very good client care."
Kim Aucott is an experienced family lawyer who is noted for her expertise in Children Act proceedings and financial remedy cases.
"Kim is very pleasant to deal with and popular with clients."
Ranked Lawyers at
Slater Heelis
North West
Members
Provided by Slater Heelis
Alexandra Goldrein
Amy Price
Andrew Scott
Chloe Huggins
Claire Higham
David Wilkinson
Dorota Beange
Gabriella Basiuk
Jodi Tuson
Kaleel Anwar
Louise Richardson
Head of Department
Phil Joy
Rebecca Muirhead
Rebecca Lang
Ruqayyah Ahmed
Vicki McLynn