Liam Brooke has joined Ramsdens Solicitors as a partner to lead its growing will, trust and estate disputes practice.

The recent case of Langley v Qin has brought even further attention to the Court’s lack of jurisdiction on the issue of ‘predatory marriages’.

Whether that adoption should be “open” (i.e. providing or permitting some form of direct contact and/or more frequent indirect contact to continue between a birth parent and the child) or “closed” (as in none or minimal contact), is a very difficult topic both for social work and legal professionals.

Ramsdens Solicitors is continuing to build its real estate team with the appointment of Ian Hartley as partner based across the firm’s Leeds and York offices.

We are happy to announce that we have recently promoted two of our team members; Ian Miles to Senior Associate and Kirsty Dunn to Associate.

With over 20 years’ experience as a private client lawyer, Mr Knowles joins from the York office of Knights, where he was a partner in the tax and wills and estates teams. He also spent more than two years as a partner with Langleys Solicitors and over six years at Weightmans.

We tackle the very important but often avoided topic of what happens to your stamp collection after you are gone.

Ramsdens Solicitors is strengthening its Company and Commercial practice by appointing Adam Cockcroft to step up to take the reins of the nine-strong team, supported by former head Stephen Newman.