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=== Foundation and early decades ===
=== Foundation and early decades ===
The firm was established in 1929 on Great Prescot Street in Aldgate, in the [[East End of London]].<ref name="NLJ95" /> According to the firm, its founder, Thomas Victor Edwards, was an early specialist in criminal defence work whose clients included members of the [[Kray twins|Kray]] organisation and one of the participants in the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]].<ref name="NLJ95" /><ref name="TVE95" /> His brother, Roland Edwards, handled personal injury claims for dockworkers during the period when the [[London Docklands|London docks]] were in full operation.<ref name="NLJ95" />
The firm was established in 1929 on Great Prescot Street in Aldgate, in the [[East End of London]].<ref name="NLJ95" /> Its founder, Thomas Victor Edwards, was an early specialist in criminal defence work whose clients included members of the [[Kray twins|Kray]] organisation and one of the participants in the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]].<ref name="NLJ95" /><ref name="TVE95" /> His brother, Roland Edwards, handled personal injury claims for dockworkers during the period when the [[London Docklands|London docks]] were in full operation.<ref name="NLJ95" />
 
=== Anthony Edwards era (1972–2019) ===
=== Anthony Edwards era (1972–2019) ===
Anthony Edwards read law at the [[University of Bristol]] and began training at the firm as an articled clerk in 1972.<ref name="BSI" /><ref name="TVE90" /> He qualified as a solicitor in 1974 and remained with the firm for the rest of his career, practising in criminal law and licensing, mainly on legally aided cases as a police station and court duty solicitor.<ref name="BSI" /> Recalling the start of his career, he later said that there had then been only two criminal law firms in the London Borough of [[Tower Hamlets]], and that the number grew substantially after the introduction of the duty solicitor schemes.<ref name="GazetteObiter" /> On the licensing side, he recalled having licensed the whole of [[Canary Wharf]] in a single application.<ref name="BSI" /> He served as senior partner for fifteen years until 2015.<ref name="TVE90" />
Anthony Edwards read law at the [[University of Bristol]] and began training at the firm as an articled clerk in 1972.<ref name="BSI" /><ref name="TVE90" /> He qualified as a solicitor in 1974 and remained with the firm for the rest of his career, practising in criminal law and licensing, mainly on legally aided cases as a police station and court duty solicitor.<ref name="BSI" /> Recalling the start of his career, he later said that there had then been only two criminal law firms in the London Borough of [[Tower Hamlets]], and that the number grew substantially after the introduction of the duty solicitor schemes.<ref name="GazetteObiter" /> On the licensing side, he recalled having licensed the whole of [[Canary Wharf]] in a single application.<ref name="BSI" /> He served as senior partner for fifteen years until 2015.<ref name="TVE90" />

Revision as of 17:07, 26 September 2026

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox law firm TV Edwards LLP is a firm of solicitors based in London, England. Founded in Aldgate in 1929 by Thomas Victor Edwards, the firm has its head office in Whitechapel and a second office at Clapham Junction.[1][2] It undertakes both privately paid and legally aided work, and is known particularly for public law children cases, criminal defence, social housing, community care and Court of Protection work.[3][4] In the 2026 edition of Chambers UK the firm was ranked in seven practice areas, including Band 1 nationally for public law children matters.[3]

From 2000 to 2015 the firm's senior partner was Anthony Edwards, a member of the founding family and a criminal defence solicitor who sat on the Sentencing Guidelines Council and wrote widely on criminal procedure and legal aid.[5][6][7] Between 2008 and 2011, in response to reductions in legal aid fees, the firm absorbed a series of other London legal aid practices, including the family law firm Blacklaws Davis and the criminal practices Taylor Nichol, JB Wheatley & Co and Mark & Co; the Law Society Gazette reported that this made it one of the largest legal aid firms in the capital.[8][9] Former members of the firm include Christina Blacklaws, later President of the Law Society.[10] The firm has acted in a number of reported cases in family, community care, housing and mental health law, and its lawyers have won awards at the annual Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year ceremony in 2008, 2015, 2024, 2025 and 2026.[11][12][13][14][15]

History

Foundation and early decades

The firm was established in 1929 on Great Prescot Street in Aldgate, in the East End of London.[1] Its founder, Thomas Victor Edwards, was an early specialist in criminal defence work whose clients included members of the Kray organisation and one of the participants in the Great Train Robbery.[1][16] His brother, Roland Edwards, handled personal injury claims for dockworkers during the period when the London docks were in full operation.[1]

Anthony Edwards era (1972–2019)

Anthony Edwards read law at the University of Bristol and began training at the firm as an articled clerk in 1972.[6][5] He qualified as a solicitor in 1974 and remained with the firm for the rest of his career, practising in criminal law and licensing, mainly on legally aided cases as a police station and court duty solicitor.[6] Recalling the start of his career, he later said that there had then been only two criminal law firms in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and that the number grew substantially after the introduction of the duty solicitor schemes.[17] On the licensing side, he recalled having licensed the whole of Canary Wharf in a single application.[6] He served as senior partner for fifteen years until 2015.[5]

A 2008 Law Society Gazette profile described TV Edwards as a crime and family practice of around 50 fee earners. In it Edwards said that he still undertook overnight police station work twice a month and spent around four months a year training solicitors and police officers, which provided the firm with income outside legal aid. He also criticised the policies of the Legal Services Commission, arguing that they undermined larger legal aid firms and threatened the quality of criminal defence work.[7]

Edwards held a number of roles in criminal justice policy. He spent ten years on the Law Society's criminal law committee, seven years as the non-executive commissioner responsible for the Criminal Defence Service, and was a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council throughout its existence.[6] He also sat on the council of JUSTICE, the editorial board of the Criminal Law Review and the Law Commission's advisory group on criminal law, and was a visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London.[18][7] In the 2008 profile he stated that section 49 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 drew in part on papers he had written.[7]

His publications include Advising a Suspect in the Police Station, the Law Society's good practice guide Criminal Defence (with Roger Ede) and Criminal Costs: Legal Aid Costs in the Criminal Courts (with Colin Beaumont, 2020); he was also a former editor of the Legal Aid Handbook.[18][19][20] From 1991 until October 2019 he wrote a regular criminal law column for the Law Society Gazette, which described him on his retirement as its second-longest-serving regular columnist.[17][21] In 2008 he received the outstanding achievement award at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, presented by Cherie Booth QC.[11] He retired from the firm in October 2019.[5]

Mergers (2008–2011)

The firm began to grow by acquisition in the late 2000s. By July 2008 it had merged with the Finsbury firm Taylor Nichol, from which the youth crime specialist Mark Ashford joined TV Edwards.[7][22] Bennett Wilkins and Sheratte Caleb had also been incorporated by March 2011.[9]

In March 2011 the firm announced a merger with Blacklaws Davis, a specialist family law practice founded in 2006 by Christina Blacklaws and Maud Davis, together with the criminal and care firm Dundons, effective from 1 May 2011.[9] At the time Blacklaws Davis employed 35 lawyers and described itself as London's largest specialist family law firm; the parties stated that the combined firm would have the largest number of Law Society Children Panel practitioners in the country, working from offices in central, north, east, south-east and south-west London and in Cambridge.[9] Edwards said the merger was intended to reduce overhead costs while maintaining specialist services for legally aided clients.[9]

Further mergers followed. By September 2011 the firm had acquired the Tottenham office of Hickman & Rose and merged with the south-east London criminal practice JB Wheatley & Co, described by the Gazette as one of the longest-established criminal practices in the capital, and the Hammersmith criminal firm Mark & Co.[8] Edwards attributed the strategy to the scale of government reductions in legal aid fees, which he said left increased volume as the only means of survival.[8] At the same time Chris Callender, previously assistant legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, joined as head of prison law.[8] Edwards examined the wider effect of the cuts on criminal defence in an article in Criminal Justice Matters published later that year.[23]

The practices absorbed between 2008 and 2011 are summarised below.

Firm Location or specialism Joined TV Edwards
Taylor Nichol Finsbury; criminal defence, including youth crime By July 2008[7][22]
Bennett Wilkins — Before March 2011[9]
Sheratte Caleb — Before March 2011[9]
Blacklaws Davis London; specialist family law 1 May 2011[9][24]
Dundons London; criminal and care work 1 May 2011[9]
Hickman & Rose (Tottenham office) Tottenham 2011[8]
JB Wheatley & Co South-east London; criminal defence August 2011[8]
Mark & Co Hammersmith; serious crime September 2011[8]

Several senior figures left shortly after the mergers. In November 2011 Christina Blacklaws, who had briefly been a senior member partner, and the firm's managing partner, Jenny Beck, departed to lead the new family law service of Co-operative Legal Services.[24][25] Blacklaws later served as President of the Law Society from 2018 to 2019.[10] Beck went on to co-found the family law firm Beck Fitzgerald and to co-chair the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.[26]

Later years (2012–2026)

Julian Overton, a licensing and former criminal defence solicitor who had joined the firm in 2006 and become a member partner in 2008, was appointed managing partner in 2012; Mark Ashford became a member partner the same year.[27][28] In 2014 the coalition government cut the fees paid to criminal legal aid solicitors by 8.75 per cent; a second reduction of the same size planned for the following year was later abandoned, but the first was never reversed.[29][30][31] In March 2014 Anthony Edwards presented a paper on the effect of reductions in criminal legal aid on the legal profession at a University of Warwick workshop on access to justice.[32] Ashford won the criminal defence category at the 2015 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, and in the same year Edwards stood down as senior partner.[12][5] The firm marked its 90th anniversary at its annual general meeting, held at Queen Mary University of London in July 2019; Edwards retired that October, when the Law Society Gazette published his final criminal law column.[5][21][17]

By the 2020s the firm had consolidated its operations into two offices, in Whitechapel and Clapham Junction.[2][1] Alongside its legal aid departments, it expanded into dispute resolution, Court of Protection, private client work and commercial and residential property.[1] During this period it acted in several reported cases, including Re C on expert evidence in parental alienation disputes (2023) and R (TMX) v Croydon on local authority accommodation duties under the Care Act (2024), and in 2024 Jenny Newton won the family legal aid category at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.[33][34][13]

In January 2025 the firm marked its 95th anniversary with a reception in Shoreditch.[1] In April 2025 six partners – Katie Brown, Juanita Francis, Adam Haffenden, Sarah Inchley, Paul Read and Adrienne Wright – were promoted to member (equity) partners of the LLP, joining Overton, senior partner Jacky Starling, Felix Couchman and Mark Ashford.[35][28] Shaun Livingston won the public law category at that year's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, and later in 2025 Alia Lewis rejoined the firm as partner and head of public law children.[14][36] Ashford announced his retirement with effect from the end of September 2025.[28]

In February 2026 the firm won gold in the service excellence category and silver as London apprentice employer of the year at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry SME Business Awards, and in March its conveyancing team won two categories at the British Conveyancing Awards.[37][38] In June 2026 it launched a family law service for neurodivergent clients, and Deborah Piccos won the childcare category at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.[39][15] In September 2026 the firm appointed new heads of family law, family finance and private client, the latter two recruited from Tees Law and Carter Lemon Camerons; it reported that family instructions in the first quarter of 2026 had risen by 34 per cent on the same period in 2025.[40][41] The same month, the Court of Appeal allowed the firm's client's appeal in R (TDB) v Haringey, a ruling on the relationship between Care Act assessments and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.[42]

Organisation

TV Edwards LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales, incorporated on 3 February 2007.[43] It has been authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority as a recognised body since 1 November 2011, with authorisation to provide all legal services, including reserved legal activities; the regulator's register records no published disciplinary decisions against the firm.[2]

The firm's registered office and head office is at 35–37 Mile End Road, Whitechapel. Its second office, at Clapham Junction, moved to 160 Falcon Road, a building owned by the Public and Commercial Services Union.[2][44] In 2025 the firm was organised into six departments, each with its own head, and had eleven partners and 82 fee earners.[1] Julian Overton is managing partner and Jacky Starling senior partner.[35]

Practice areas

Family and children law

The family department acts in public law children cases (care proceedings, adoption and special guardianship), private law children disputes, international child abduction and surrogacy, and financial remedy cases on divorce.[45][40] It has represented children in a number of reported High Court and Court of Appeal cases, in some instances through their children's guardians.[46][47][48] In the 2026 edition of Chambers UK the firm was placed in Band 1 nationally for public law children matters, in Band 2 for London family and children law, and in Band 3 for international child abduction, adoption and surrogacy.[3]

In 2025 Alia Lewis, who began her career at the firm as a paralegal in 2002 and later founded a specialist autism and ADHD legal unit at Duncan Lewis, rejoined as partner and head of public law children.[36] While at Duncan Lewis she had won the children's rights category at the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.[49][50] Lewis is a co-founder of Family Law Advice for the Neurodivergent Community (FLANC), a cross-firm non-profit group campaigning for mandatory neurodivergence training for family justice professionals; according to the firm, the group was established in 2024 and contributed to the Family Justice Council's best-practice guidance on neurodiversity for practitioners.[26][51][52] In June 2026 the firm launched a family law service for neurodivergent parents and children, led by Lewis, covering care proceedings, contact disputes and cases involving allegations of fabricated or induced illness.[39][53]

Criminal defence

The criminal department is ranked by Chambers UK among London criminal defence firms and among legal aid crime specialists; it is led by Adrienne Wright.[3][54] The directory describes the team as handling homicide, serious violence, sexual offences and organised crime, and as having particular experience representing young and mentally unwell defendants.[54] The firm developed a specialist youth justice practice under Mark Ashford, co-author of the Legal Action Group practitioner text Defending Young People in the Criminal Justice System, who won the criminal defence category at the 2015 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.[55][12] The Open University's Life in Law audio series featured Farhana Rahman-Cook, then a partner in the firm's Tottenham office, during a murder trial at the Old Bailey, describing her largely legally aided criminal defence practice.[56] The firm also advises on business crime and fraud and on alcohol and entertainment licensing.[3]

Housing and community care

The social welfare department acts for tenants and homeless applicants in possession proceedings, disrepair claims, unlawful eviction, homelessness appeals and anti-social behaviour injunctions, and advises the Official Solicitor in cases involving tenants who lack capacity.[4][57] Its solicitors act as housing duty solicitors at the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court.[58] The department is ranked in Band 2 nationally for social housing (tenants) by Chambers UK and is also ranked by The Legal 500.[3][4] Its community care work involves challenges to local authority decisions under the Care Act 2014, including the TMX and TDB cases described below.[34][42]

Court of Protection, mental health and public law

The firm represents clients in health and welfare and property and affairs proceedings in the Court of Protection; The Legal 500 noted that six of its solicitors held Accredited Legal Representative status, named Katie Brown as leading the team and recommended Nilufer Ozdemir and Monica Kreel.[59] It is ranked for Court of Protection health and welfare work by Chambers UK, which also ranks one of its solicitors for claimant administrative and public law.[3] The firm also represents patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, including before the Upper Tribunal.[60]

Property and private client

The firm's residential conveyancing team won two categories at the 2026 British Conveyancing Awards: Residential Property Team of the Year (Boutique) and Conveyancing Firm of the Year (South).[38] The firm also handles commercial property, commercial and property litigation, and wills, trusts and probate.[3][40]

Notable cases

Family and children

  • A Local Authority v DG (2014): Acting for the child through the children's guardian, the firm was involved in care proceedings running in parallel with a criminal prosecution of the father. Mr Justice Keehan held that the father's criminal lawyers had been wrong to advise him not to respond fully to the local authority's case until his defence statement in the criminal proceedings was ready, and gave guidance that criminal timetables do not justify non-compliance with family court orders.[61]
  • Re SL (Permission to Vaccinate) (2017): The firm acted for the children in an application by a local authority to vaccinate a seven-month-old child in its care against the mother's objections. Mr Justice MacDonald authorised the vaccinations, holding that the risks alleged were clearly outweighed by the benefits of immunisation; commentators have treated the case as an important precedent on the balance between parental objections and child welfare in vaccination disputes.[47][62]
  • Re B (Children: Uncertain Perpetrator) (2019): The firm acted for the children, through their guardian, in an appeal concerning a finding that a father was in the "pool of possible perpetrators" of harm to three children who had contracted a sexually transmitted infection. The Court of Appeal, in a judgment given by Lord Justice Peter Jackson, held that a person may be placed in such a pool only where there is a real possibility that they caused the harm, and that the trial judge had wrongly reversed the burden of proof; the case was remitted for rehearing.[46][63]
  • Re Z (A Child) (DOLS: Lack of Secure Placement) (2020): The firm represented a 13-year-old child in local authority care for whom no registered secure placement was available. On an application by the London Borough of Sutton under the High Court's inherent jurisdiction, Mrs Justice Judd authorised the child's deprivation of liberty in an unregistered placement as an emergency measure pending the availability of secure accommodation.[48]
  • Re C ('Parental Alienation'; Instruction of Expert) (2023): The firm represented the psychologist who had given expert evidence in private law children proceedings, in an appeal heard by the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane.[33] The appeal was dismissed, but the judgment gave guidance on the instruction of unregulated psychologists as experts where parental alienation is alleged, and the President has since relied on it in later cases.[33][64][65]

Community care and public law

  • R (HL) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (2023): The firm acted for the claimant in a judicial review of the government's decision not to bring into force an appeals system for adult social care decisions under section 72 of the Care Act 2014. Mr Justice Julian Knowles rejected all three grounds of challenge, holding that there was no enforceable duty to re-consult, that Parliament's choice to give the Secretary of State a power rather than a duty under section 72 was inconsistent with a common-law obligation to implement it, and that Article 8 of the ECHR was not engaged.[66][67]
  • R (TMX) v London Borough of Croydon (2024): The firm, through the solicitor Monica Kreel, acted for a 50-year-old asylum seeker with progressive multiple sclerosis who used a wheelchair and was living with his family in inaccessible Home Office hostel accommodation.[68][69] In a judgment handed down on 26 January 2024, Alan Bates, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, held that responsibility for meeting his accommodation-related care needs lay with the local authority under the Care Act 2014, rather than with the Home Secretary under the asylum support scheme, and that Croydon Council's failure to provide suitable accommodation for at least seven months breached Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[34][68][70] Counsel for the claimant described it as, to their knowledge, the first reported judgment finding a local authority in breach of Article 3 for failing to perform its Care Act duties.[69] According to the firm, the council subsequently moved the claimant to a flat where his care could be delivered.[71]
  • R (TDB) v London Borough of Haringey (2025–2026): The firm acted for a young man with autism, ADHD and complex needs in a challenge to a Care Act assessment which had concluded that his needs could be met through mainstream rather than specialist services.[72][42] The High Court dismissed the claim in August 2025,[73] but on 15 September 2026 the Court of Appeal (Bean, Baker and May LJJ) allowed the appeal, holding that where there is reason to doubt a person's capacity, a Mental Capacity Act 2005 assessment must be carried out by an appropriately qualified professional before the Care Act needs assessment is completed.[42] In the sole reasoned judgment, Lord Justice Baker also held that on the facts it had been irrational for the council not to obtain specialist input when conducting the assessment, as required by the assessment regulations, and the assessment was quashed.[74][75]

Housing

  • Hajan v London Borough of Brent; Kerr v Poplar HARCA (2024): The firm represented the tenant in the second of two conjoined appeals concerning mandatory grounds for possession based on anti-social behaviour.[4] The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that a suspended possession order made on a discretionary ground could be varied to an outright order on a mandatory ground.[76][77]

Mental health

  • ML v Priory Healthcare Ltd (2023): The firm acted for a restricted patient who lacked capacity, in an appeal to the Upper Tribunal against the First-tier Tribunal's refusal of a conditional discharge. The Upper Tribunal held that the lower tribunal had erred by failing to consider whether his treatment could be secured through authorisations under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 rather than continued detention in hospital, and remitted the case for rehearing.[60]

Notable people

Besides Anthony Edwards, lawyers who have practised at the firm include:

  • Christina Blacklaws, founder of Blacklaws Davis, who was briefly a senior member partner of TV Edwards after the 2011 merger and later served as President of the Law Society from 2018 to 2019.[78][10]
  • Jenny Beck, the firm's managing partner until 2011, who later co-founded the family law firm Beck Fitzgerald; as of 2026 she co-chairs the Legal Aid Practitioners Group and chairs the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.[24][26]
  • Mark Ashford, a solicitor since 1993 and youth crime specialist who joined from Taylor Nichol in 2008, became a member partner in 2012 and announced his retirement in 2025. He co-wrote Defending Young People in the Criminal Justice System and, with Naomi Redhouse, Blackstone's Youth Court Handbook, published by Oxford University Press with a contribution from Anthony Edwards.[55][28][79]
  • Chris Callender, formerly assistant legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, who joined as head of prison law in 2011.[8]
  • Alia Lewis, who began her career at the firm in 2002, founded an autism and ADHD specialist unit at Duncan Lewis, and returned as head of public law children in 2025.[36][39]
  • Deborah Piccos, a children law solicitor with 27 years' experience, who won the childcare category at the 2026 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.[15][80]
  • Jenny Newton, a public law children solicitor, and Shaun Livingston, a public law solicitor who began his career as an insurance litigator, winners at the 2024 and 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards respectively.[13][81][14]

Recognition

In the 2026 edition of Chambers UK the firm was ranked in seven practice areas and thirteen of its lawyers were individually ranked.[3] It is also ranked by The Legal 500, including for social housing (tenants) and Court of Protection work.[4][59]

The firm's lawyers have received the following awards at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards, organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group:

Year Category Recipient
2008 Outstanding achievement Anthony Edwards[11]
2015 Criminal defence Mark Ashford[12]
2024 Family legal aid including children's rights Jenny Newton[13]
2025 Public law Shaun Livingston[14]
2026 Childcare legal aid Deborah Piccos[15]

Piccos had previously been a finalist in the family category in 2022.[82]

In 2026 the firm won two categories at the British Conveyancing Awards.[38]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "East London law firm celebrates 95 years of service". 2025. https://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/tv-edwards. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "TV Edwards LLP (SRA number 465533)". Solicitors Regulation Authority. https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/organisation/?sraNumber=465533. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 "TV Edwards LLP – UK 2026". Chambers and Partners. https://chambers.com/law-firm/tv-edwards-llp-uk-1:5750. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "TV Edwards Solicitors LLP – Social housing: tenant – London". The Legal 500. https://www.legal500.com/rankings/ranking/c-london/real-estate/social-housing-tenant/3239-tv-edwards-solicitors-llp. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Starling, Jacky (July 2019). "TV Edwards Celebrate 90 Years in East End of London". TV Edwards LLP. https://tvedwards.com/news-and-blogs/news/tv-edwards-celebrate-90-years-in-east-end-of-london/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Escape from the Shades: Bishop's Stortford retired solicitor Anthony Edwards turns his criminal advocacy skills to writing a book for his five grandchildren". Bishop's Stortford Independent. https://www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/whats-on/stortford-solicitor-dedicates-first-fiction-book-to-grandchi-9295917/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Baksi, Catherine (17 July 2008). "Day in the life". Law Society Gazette. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/analysis/day-in-the-life/47282.article. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Baksi, Catherine (1 September 2011). "TV Edwards reveals two new mergers". Law Society Gazette. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/tv-edwards-reveals-two-new-mergers/62018.article. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 "London legal aid firms to merge". Family Law (LexisNexis). 1 March 2011. https://www.familylaw.co.uk/news_and_comment/legalaidmerger01032011-635. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "KPMG hires ex-Law Society president". Law Society Gazette. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/kpmg-hires-ex-law-society-president/5102045.article. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Anthony Edwards presented with outstanding achievement award". Law Society Gazette. 2008. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/anthony-edwards-presented-with-outstanding-achievement-award-/48653.article. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "2015 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Winner". Miles & Partners. 2015. https://milesandpartners.com/2015-legal-aid-lawyer-of-the-year-winner/. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "LAPG announces winners of the 2024 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards". Legal Aid Practitioners Group. 2024. https://lapg.co.uk/lapg-announces-winners-of-the-2024-legal-aid-lawyer-of-the-year-awards/. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 "LALYs 25: Pillars of a decent society". Law Society Gazette. 2025. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news-focus/lalys-25-pillars-of-a-decent-society/5123886.article. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 "LAPG announces winners of the 2026 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards". Legal Aid Practitioners Group. 2026. https://lapg.co.uk/news/lapg-announces-winners-of-the-2026-legal-aid-lawyer-of-the-year-awards/. 
  16. ↑ "TV Edwards Celebrates 95 Years in Business". TV Edwards LLP. https://tvedwards.com/news/tv-edwards-celebrates-95-years-in-business/. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Anthony no longer on duty". Law Society Gazette. October 2019. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/anthony-no-longer-on-duty/5101869.article. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Mr Anthony Edwards, Visiting Professor". School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/staff/edwards.html. 
  19. ↑ "Anthony Edwards". Law Society Bookshop. https://bookshop.lawsociety.org.uk/authors-editors/anthony-edwards/. 
  20. ↑ "Tony Edwards". Legal Action Group. https://www.lag.org.uk/?id=-200256&cid=203125. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Edwards, Anthony (21 October 2019). "A (final) roundup". Law Society Gazette. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/legal-updates/a-final-roundup/5101849.article. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Mark Ashford". Legal Action Group. https://www.lag.org.uk/profiles/203037/mark-ashford. 
  23. ↑ Edwards, Anthony (2011). "Will defendants survive changes to criminal legal aid?". Criminal Justice Matters 86 (1): 30–32. doi:10.1080/09627251.2011.646212. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Baksi, Catherine (2011). "Interview: Christina Blacklaws". Law Society Gazette. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/interview-christina-blacklaws/62931.article. 
  25. ↑ "Exclusive: major blow to Co-op Legal Services as Blacklaws departs". Legal Futures. 2014. https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/exclusive-major-blow-co-op-legal-services-blacklaws-departs. 
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 "In-depth: Family law strategy requires 'big thinking'". Law Society Gazette. 2026. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news-focus/in-depth-family-law-strategy-requires-big-thinking/5127505.article. 
  27. ↑ "Julian Overton". TV Edwards LLP. https://tvedwards.com/person/julian-overton/. 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 "Youth Crime Partner Mark Ashford to Retire After Decades of Service". TV Edwards LLP. 2025. https://tvedwards.com/news/youth-crime-lawyer-mark-ashford-to-retire-after-decades-of-service/. 
  29. ↑ "Defending the future of criminal legal aid: what we're doing for members". The Law Society. https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/legal-aid/defending-the-future-of-criminal-legal-aid. 
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