Chambers Review
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Family/Matrimonial - North West
What the Team is Known For
Stephensons in Manchester is recognised for its expertise in handling a wide range of public law work related to children, including complex care proceedings. The team is also well versed in handling private children cases and financial remedy matters.
Strengths
Stephensons has highly skilled staff with considerable expertise and sensitivity in complex and difficult cases. The team are helpful, professional and go above and beyond.
They are dealing with life-changing work on a daily basis; it is highly sensitive and pressurised. They send detailed instructions and go the extra mile on each and every case.
They are extremely well organised and do fantastic work in complex cases. They have excellent instructing experts and are capable of doing document-heavy cases easily.
Stephenson have always provided exceptional service. They bring excellent knowledge and skills which has assisted greatly in achieving the right and safest outcomes.
Stephensons is always my go-to as I know someone will always be able to assist me, sometimes at extremely short notice. Advocates at Stephensons are all excellent and experienced professionals.
Notable practitioners
Jackie Price is an expert in children law, with experience handling both public and private proceedings. She is especially skilled in representing clients during complex care proceedings.
She's always on top of every development in a case, reacts to changes immediately and does what's required before it needs to be done.
Jackie is excellent.
Jackie is really good and efficient. She is very good with people, from professionals to clients. She knows what she is doing and is very experienced.
Jackie Price is a really solid, safe pair of hands.
Victoria Gethin is head of family law at Stephensons. She specialises in child care proceedings and has broad experience working across matters involving children and domestic abuse.
She is fiercely efficient, works incredibly hard and really gets to grips with the case at an early point, figuring out what it needs from the outset. She's always well prepared and ahead of the game.
Victoria is very organised and experienced; you can rely on her to do the job properly.
Rachel Bennet is sought after for her deep expertise in children law. She is particularly adept at representing clients in matters involving children's safety.
Rachel is a rising star - she is absolutely fantastic.
Rachel is thorough, has a really good legal brain and always presents the documentation excellently.