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| headquarters = 35–37 Mile End Road, [[Whitechapel]], London | | headquarters = 35–37 Mile End Road, [[Whitechapel]], London | ||
| offices = 2 (Whitechapel and [[Clapham Junction]]) | | offices = 2 (Whitechapel and [[Clapham Junction]]) | ||
| num_partners = 11 (2025)<ref name=" | | num_partners = 11 (2025)<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> | ||
| num_lawyers = 82 fee earners (2025)<ref name=" | | num_lawyers = 82 fee earners (2025)<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> | ||
| key_people = Julian Overton (managing partner)<br />Jacky Starling (senior partner)<ref name=" | | key_people = Julian Overton (managing partner)<br />Jacky Starling (senior partner)<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025b" /> | ||
| practice_areas = Family and children law, criminal defence, housing, community care, Court of Protection, public law, dispute resolution, residential and commercial property, private client, licensing | | practice_areas = Family and children law, criminal defence, housing, community care, Court of Protection, public law, dispute resolution, residential and commercial property, private client, licensing | ||
| date_founded = {{circa|{{start date and age|df=yes|1929}}}} | | date_founded = {{circa|{{start date and age|df=yes|1929}}}} | ||
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| homepage = {{URL|https://tvedwards.com}} | | homepage = {{URL|https://tvedwards.com}} | ||
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'''TV Edwards LLP''' is a firm of [[solicitor]]s 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]].<ref name=" | '''TV Edwards LLP''' is a firm of [[solicitor]]s 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]].<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /><ref name="Solicitors Regulation Authority" /> It undertakes both privately paid and [[Legal aid|legally aided]] work, and is known particularly for public law children cases, criminal defence, social housing, community care and [[Court of Protection]] work.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /><ref name="The Legal 500-2" /> In the 2026 edition of ''[[Chambers and Partners|Chambers UK]]'' the firm was ranked in seven practice areas, including Band 1 nationally for public law children matters.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /> | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Starling-2019" /><ref name="Bishop's Stortford Independent" /><ref name="Baksi-2008" /> 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.<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /><ref name="Family Law-2011" /> Former members of the firm include [[Christina Blacklaws]], later President of the Law Society.<ref name="Law Society Gazette" /> 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.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2008" /><ref name="Miles & Partners-2015" /><ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2024" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025a" /><ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2026" /> | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== 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=" | The firm was established in 1929 on Great Prescot Street in Aldgate, in the [[East End of London]].<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> 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="New Law Journal-2025a" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP" /> 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="New Law Journal-2025a" /> | ||
=== 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=" | Anthony Edwards read law at the [[University of Bristol]] and began training at the firm as an articled clerk in 1972.<ref name="Bishop's Stortford Independent" /><ref name="Starling-2019" /> 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="Bishop's Stortford Independent" /> 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="Law Society Gazette-2019a" /> On the licensing side, he recalled having licensed the whole of [[Canary Wharf]] in a single application.<ref name="Bishop's Stortford Independent" /> He served as senior partner for fifteen years until 2015.<ref name="Starling-2019" /> | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Baksi-2008" /> | ||
Edwards held a number of roles in criminal justice policy. He spent ten years on the [[Law Society of England and Wales|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.<ref name=" | Edwards held a number of roles in criminal justice policy. He spent ten years on the [[Law Society of England and Wales|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.<ref name="Bishop's Stortford Independent" /> He also sat on the council of [[JUSTICE]], the editorial board of the ''[[Criminal Law Review]]'' and the [[Law Commission (England and Wales)|Law Commission]]'s advisory group on criminal law, and was a visiting professor at [[Queen Mary University of London]].<ref name="School of Law, Queen Mary University of London" /><ref name="Baksi-2008" /> 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.<ref name="Baksi-2008" /> | ||
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''.<ref name=" | 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''.<ref name="School of Law, Queen Mary University of London" /><ref name="Law Society Bookshop" /><ref name="Legal Action Group-2" /> 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.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2019a" /><ref name="Edwards-2019" /> In 2008 he received the outstanding achievement award at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, presented by [[Cherie Blair|Cherie Booth QC]].<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2008" /> He retired from the firm in October 2019.<ref name="Starling-2019" /> | ||
=== Mergers (2008–2011) === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Baksi-2008" /><ref name="Legal Action Group" /> Bennett Wilkins and Sheratte Caleb had also been incorporated by March 2011.<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> 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]].<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> Edwards said the merger was intended to reduce overhead costs while maintaining specialist services for legally aided clients.<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> 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.<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> At the same time Chris Callender, previously assistant legal director of the [[Howard League for Penal Reform]], joined as head of prison law.<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> Edwards examined the wider effect of the cuts on criminal defence in an article in ''Criminal Justice Matters'' published later that year.<ref name="Edwards-2011" /> | ||
The practices absorbed between 2008 and 2011 are summarised below. | The practices absorbed between 2008 and 2011 are summarised below. | ||
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! Firm !! Location or specialism !! Joined TV Edwards | ! Firm !! Location or specialism !! Joined TV Edwards | ||
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| Taylor Nichol || [[Finsbury]]; criminal defence, including youth crime || By July 2008<ref name=" | | Taylor Nichol || [[Finsbury]]; criminal defence, including youth crime || By July 2008<ref name="Baksi-2008" /><ref name="Legal Action Group" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Bennett Wilkins || — || Before March 2011<ref name=" | | Bennett Wilkins || — || Before March 2011<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Sheratte Caleb || — || Before March 2011<ref name=" | | Sheratte Caleb || — || Before March 2011<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Blacklaws Davis || London; specialist family law || 1 May 2011<ref name=" | | Blacklaws Davis || London; specialist family law || 1 May 2011<ref name="Family Law-2011" /><ref name="Baksi-2011b" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Dundons || London; criminal and care work || 1 May 2011<ref name=" | | Dundons || London; criminal and care work || 1 May 2011<ref name="Family Law-2011" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Hickman & Rose (Tottenham office) || [[Tottenham]] || 2011<ref name=" | | Hickman & Rose (Tottenham office) || [[Tottenham]] || 2011<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| JB Wheatley & Co || South-east London; criminal defence || August 2011<ref name=" | | JB Wheatley & Co || South-east London; criminal defence || August 2011<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Mark & Co || [[Hammersmith]]; serious crime || September 2011<ref name=" | | Mark & Co || [[Hammersmith]]; serious crime || September 2011<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> | ||
|} | |} | ||
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]].<ref name=" | 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]].<ref name="Baksi-2011b" /><ref name="Legal Futures-2014" /> Blacklaws later served as [[List of presidents of the Law Society of England and Wales|President of the Law Society]] from 2018 to 2019.<ref name="Law Society Gazette" /> Beck went on to co-found the family law firm Beck Fitzgerald and to co-chair the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2026a" /> | ||
=== Later years (2012–2026) === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-5" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025a" /> 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.<ref name="The Law Society" /><ref name="Transforming Society-2024" /><ref name="The Guardian-2014" /><!-- EDITOR: the Guardian article (15 October 2014) could not be read when this was drafted; confirm its headline and that it supports this sentence, and add any specific reference it makes to TV Edwards. --> 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.<ref name="School of Law, University of Warwick" /> 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.<ref name="Miles & Partners-2015" /><ref name="Starling-2019" /> 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.<ref name="Starling-2019" /><ref name="Edwards-2019" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2019a" /> | ||
By the 2020s the firm had consolidated its operations into two offices, in Whitechapel and Clapham Junction.<ref name=" | By the 2020s the firm had consolidated its operations into two offices, in Whitechapel and Clapham Junction.<ref name="Solicitors Regulation Authority" /><ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> Alongside its legal aid departments, it expanded into dispute resolution, Court of Protection, private client work and commercial and residential property.<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> 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.<ref name="BAILII-2023" /><ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2024" /><ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2024" /> | ||
In January 2025 the firm marked its 95th anniversary with a reception in [[Shoreditch]].<ref name=" | In January 2025 the firm marked its 95th anniversary with a reception in [[Shoreditch]].<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> 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.<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025b" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025a" /> 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.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025a" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025b" /> Ashford announced his retirement with effect from the end of September 2025.<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025a" /> | ||
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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="London Business Matters-2026" /><ref name="Today's Conveyancer-2026" /> 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.<ref name="Jones-2026" /><ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2026" /> 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.<ref name="Attfield-Tomes-2026" /><ref name="Bdaily-2026" /> 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.<ref name="Incorporated Council of Law Reporting" /> | ||
== Organisation == | == Organisation == | ||
TV Edwards LLP is a [[limited liability partnership]] registered in England and Wales, incorporated on 3 February 2007.<ref name=" | TV Edwards LLP is a [[limited liability partnership]] registered in England and Wales, incorporated on 3 February 2007.<ref name="Companies House" /> 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.<ref name="Solicitors Regulation Authority" /> | ||
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]].<ref name=" | 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]].<ref name="Solicitors Regulation Authority" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2" /> In 2025 the firm was organised into six departments, each with its own head, and had eleven partners and 82 fee earners.<ref name="New Law Journal-2025a" /> Julian Overton is managing partner and Jacky Starling senior partner.<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025b" /> | ||
== Practice areas == | == Practice areas == | ||
=== Family and children law === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Chambers and Partners-3" /><ref name="Attfield-Tomes-2026" /> It has represented children in a number of reported High Court and Court of Appeal cases, in some instances through their [[Children's guardian|children's guardians]].<ref name="The National Archives-2019" /><ref name="The National Archives-2017" /><ref name="The National Archives-2020" /> 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.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /> | ||
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 (law firm)|Duncan Lewis]], rejoined as partner and head of public law children.<ref name=" | 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 (law firm)|Duncan Lewis]], rejoined as partner and head of public law children.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025b" /> While at Duncan Lewis she had won the children's rights category at the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards.<ref name="Solicitors Journal-2025" /><ref name="New Law Journal-2025b" /> 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.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2026a" /><ref name="Lewis-2026" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP-4" /> 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]].<ref name="Jones-2026" /><ref name="Shaw-2026" /> | ||
=== Criminal defence === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /><ref name="Chambers and Partners-2" /> 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.<ref name="Chambers and Partners-2" /> 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.<ref name="Youth Justice Legal Centre" /><ref name="Miles & Partners-2015" /> 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.<ref name="The Open University" /> The firm also advises on business crime and fraud and on alcohol and entertainment licensing.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /> | ||
=== Housing and community care === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="The Legal 500-2" /><ref name="Chambers and Partners-4" /> Its solicitors act as housing duty solicitors at the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court.<ref name="TV Edwards LLP-3" /> The department is ranked in Band 2 nationally for social housing (tenants) by ''Chambers UK'' and is also ranked by ''[[The Legal 500]]''.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /><ref name="The Legal 500-2" /> Its community care work involves challenges to local authority decisions under the [[Care Act 2014]], including the ''TMX'' and ''TDB'' cases described below.<ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2024" /><ref name="Incorporated Council of Law Reporting" /> | ||
=== Court of Protection, mental health and public law === | === 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.<ref name=" | 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.<ref name="The Legal 500" /> 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.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /> The firm also represents patients detained under the [[Mental Health Act 1983]], including before the [[Upper Tribunal]].<ref name="The National Archives-2023b" /> | ||
=== Property and private client === | === 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).<ref name=" | 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).<ref name="Today's Conveyancer-2026" /> The firm also handles commercial property, commercial and property litigation, and wills, trusts and probate.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /><ref name="Attfield-Tomes-2026" /> | ||
== Notable cases == | == Notable cases == | ||
=== Family and children === | === 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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The National Archives-2014" /> | ||
* '''''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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The National Archives-2017" /><ref name="English-2017" /> | ||
* '''''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 (judge)|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.<ref name=" | * '''''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 (judge)|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.<ref name="The National Archives-2019" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2019b" /> | ||
* '''''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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The National Archives-2020" /> | ||
* '''''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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="BAILII-2023" /> 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.<ref name="BAILII-2023" /><ref name="St Mary's Family Law Chambers-2023" /><ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2026" /> | ||
=== Community care and public law === | === 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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The National Archives-2023a" /><ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2023" /> | ||
* '''''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.<ref name="Byline" /><ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="Byline Times-2024" /><ref name="Garden Court Chambers-2024" /> 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 [[Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights|Articles 3]] and [[Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights|8]] of the [[European Convention on Human Rights]].<ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2024" /><ref name="Byline Times-2024" /><ref name="NRPF Network-2024" /> 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.<ref name="Garden Court Chambers-2024" /> According to the firm, the council subsequently moved the claimant to a flat where his care could be delivered.<ref name="Kreel-2024" /> | ||
* '''''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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="BAILII-2025" /><ref name="Incorporated Council of Law Reporting" /> The High Court dismissed the claim in August 2025,<ref name="Local Government Lawyer-2025" /> 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.<ref name="Incorporated Council of Law Reporting" /> 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.<ref name="Mental Capacity Law and Policy-2026" /><ref name="Local Government Law-2026" /> | ||
=== Housing === | === 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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The Legal 500-2" /> The [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|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.<ref name="BAILII-2024" /><ref name="Shelter" /> | ||
=== Mental health === | === 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.<ref name=" | * '''''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.<ref name="The National Archives-2023b" /> | ||
== Notable people == | == Notable people == | ||
Besides Anthony Edwards, lawyers who have practised at the firm include: | 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.<ref name="Burcher" /><ref name=" | * [[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.<ref name="Burcher Jennings" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette" /> | ||
* 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.<ref name=" | * 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.<ref name="Baksi-2011b" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2026a" /> | ||
* 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.<ref name=" | * 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.<ref name="Youth Justice Legal Centre" /><ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025a" /><ref name="Ashford-2013" /> | ||
* Chris Callender, formerly assistant legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, who joined as head of prison law in 2011.<ref name=" | * Chris Callender, formerly assistant legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, who joined as head of prison law in 2011.<ref name="Baksi-2011a" /> | ||
* 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.<ref name=" | * 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.<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025b" /><ref name="Jones-2026" /> | ||
* 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.<ref name=" | * 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.<ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2026" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2026b" /> | ||
* 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.<ref name=" | * 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.<ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2024" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2024" /><ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025a" /> | ||
== Recognition == | == Recognition == | ||
In the 2026 edition of ''Chambers UK'' the firm was ranked in seven practice areas and thirteen of its lawyers were individually ranked.<ref name=" | In the 2026 edition of ''Chambers UK'' the firm was ranked in seven practice areas and thirteen of its lawyers were individually ranked.<ref name="Chambers and Partners" /> It is also ranked by ''The Legal 500'', including for social housing (tenants) and Court of Protection work.<ref name="The Legal 500-2" /><ref name="The Legal 500" /> | ||
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: | 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: | ||
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! Year !! Category !! Recipient | ! Year !! Category !! Recipient | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2008 || Outstanding achievement || Anthony Edwards<ref name=" | | 2008 || Outstanding achievement || Anthony Edwards<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2008" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2015 || Criminal defence || Mark Ashford<ref name=" | | 2015 || Criminal defence || Mark Ashford<ref name="Miles & Partners-2015" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2024 || Family legal aid including children's rights || Jenny Newton<ref name=" | | 2024 || Family legal aid including children's rights || Jenny Newton<ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2024" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2025 || Public law || Shaun Livingston<ref name=" | | 2025 || Public law || Shaun Livingston<ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025a" /> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2026 || Childcare legal aid || Deborah Piccos<ref name=" | | 2026 || Childcare legal aid || Deborah Piccos<ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2026" /> | ||
|} | |} | ||
Piccos had previously been a finalist in the family category in 2022.<ref name=" | Piccos had previously been a finalist in the family category in 2022.<ref name="Legal Aid Practitioners Group-2022" /> | ||
In 2026 the firm won two categories at the British Conveyancing Awards.<ref name=" | In 2026 the firm won two categories at the British Conveyancing Awards.<ref name="Today's Conveyancer-2026" /> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards Celebrates 95 Years in Business |url=https://tvedwards.com/news/tv-edwards-celebrates-95-years-in-business/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Starling-2019">{{cite web |last=Starling |first=Jacky |title=TV Edwards Celebrate 90 Years in East End of London |url=https://tvedwards.com/news-and-blogs/news/tv-edwards-celebrate-90-years-in-east-end-of-london/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |date=July 2019 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards relocates to a new Clapham Junction Office |url=https://tvedwards.com/news-and-blogs/news/tv-edwards-relocates-to-new-clapham-junction-office/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP-3">{{cite web |title=Housing Solicitors |url=https://tvedwards.com/services/housing-solicitors-in-london/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025b">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP Strengthens Leadership with Six New Member Partners |url=https://tvedwards.com/news/tv-edwards-llp-strengthens-leadership-with-six-new-member-partners/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |date=2 April 2025 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP-2025a">{{cite web |title=Youth Crime Partner Mark Ashford to Retire After Decades of Service |url=https://tvedwards.com/news/youth-crime-lawyer-mark-ashford-to-retire-after-decades-of-service/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |year=2025 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Companies House">{{cite web |title=TV EDWARDS LLP (OC325696) |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC325696 |publisher=[[Companies House]] |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="TV Edwards LLP-5">{{cite web |title=Julian Overton |url=https://tvedwards.com/person/julian-overton/ |publisher=TV Edwards LLP |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Warwick">{{cite web |title=The changing face of the legal profession |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/accesstojustice/usefulresources/legalprofession/ |publisher=School of Law, [[University of Warwick]] |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | <ref name="School of Law, University of Warwick">{{cite web |title=The changing face of the legal profession |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/accesstojustice/usefulresources/legalprofession/ |publisher=School of Law, [[University of Warwick]] |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="London Business Matters-2026">{{cite news |title=TV Edwards Secures Gold and Silver at London Chamber of Commerce SME Business Awards |url=https://www.londonbusinessmatters.co.uk/tv-edwards-secures-gold-and-silver-at-london-chamber-of-commerce-sme-business-awards/ |work=London Business Matters |publisher=London Chamber of Commerce and Industry |date=26 February 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Bdaily">{{cite news |title=TV Edwards appoints department heads |url=https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2026/09/15/tv-edwards-appoints-department-heads |work=Bdaily |date=15 September 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | <ref name="Bdaily-2026">{{cite news |title=TV Edwards appoints department heads |url=https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2026/09/15/tv-edwards-appoints-department-heads |work=Bdaily |date=15 September 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Solicitors Regulation Authority">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP (SRA number 465533) |url=https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/organisation/?sraNumber=465533 |publisher=[[Solicitors Regulation Authority]] |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Baksi-2008">{{cite news |last=Baksi |first=Catherine |title=Day in the life |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/analysis/day-in-the-life/47282.article |work=[[Law Society Gazette]] |date=17 July 2008 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette-2008">{{cite news |title=Anthony Edwards presented with outstanding achievement award |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/anthony-edwards-presented-with-outstanding-achievement-award-/48653.article |work=Law Society Gazette |year=2008 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette-2019a">{{cite news |title=Anthony no longer on duty |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/anthony-no-longer-on-duty/5101869.article |work=Law Society Gazette |date=October 2019 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Edwards-2019">{{cite news |last=Edwards |first=Anthony |title=A (final) roundup |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/legal-updates/a-final-roundup/5101849.article |work=Law Society Gazette |date=21 October 2019 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Baksi-2011a">{{cite news |last=Baksi |first=Catherine |title=TV Edwards reveals two new mergers |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/tv-edwards-reveals-two-new-mergers/62018.article |work=Law Society Gazette |date=1 September 2011 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Family Law-2011">{{cite news |title=London legal aid firms to merge |url=https://www.familylaw.co.uk/news_and_comment/legalaidmerger01032011-635 |work=Family Law |publisher=[[LexisNexis]] |date=1 March 2011 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Baksi-2011b">{{cite news |last=Baksi |first=Catherine |title=Interview: Christina Blacklaws |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/interview-christina-blacklaws/62931.article |work=Law Society Gazette |year=2011 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Legal Futures-2014">{{cite news |title=Exclusive: major blow to Co-op Legal Services as Blacklaws departs |url=https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/exclusive-major-blow-co-op-legal-services-blacklaws-departs |work=Legal Futures |year=2014 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette">{{cite news |title=KPMG hires ex-Law Society president |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/kpmg-hires-ex-law-society-president/5102045.article |work=Law Society Gazette |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette-2026a">{{cite news |title=In-depth: Family law strategy requires 'big thinking' |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news-focus/in-depth-family-law-strategy-requires-big-thinking/5127505.article |work=Law Society Gazette |year=2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Burcher">{{cite web |title=Christina Blacklaws |url=http://www.burcherjennings.com/advisory-board/christina-blacklaws/ |publisher=Burcher Jennings |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | <ref name="Burcher Jennings">{{cite web |title=Christina Blacklaws |url=http://www.burcherjennings.com/advisory-board/christina-blacklaws/ |publisher=Burcher Jennings |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Bishop's Stortford Independent">{{cite news |title=Escape from the Shades: Bishop's Stortford retired solicitor Anthony Edwards turns his criminal advocacy skills to writing a book for his five grandchildren |url=https://www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/whats-on/stortford-solicitor-dedicates-first-fiction-book-to-grandchi-9295917/ |work=Bishop's Stortford Independent |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="School of Law, Queen Mary University of London">{{cite web |title=Mr Anthony Edwards, Visiting Professor |url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/staff/edwards.html |publisher=School of Law, Queen Mary University of London |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Bookshop">{{cite web |title=Anthony Edwards |url=https://bookshop.lawsociety.org.uk/authors-editors/anthony-edwards/ |publisher=Law Society Bookshop |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Legal Action Group-2">{{cite web |title=Tony Edwards |url=https://www.lag.org.uk/?id=-200256&cid=203125 |publisher=[[Legal Action Group]] |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Legal Action Group">{{cite web |title=Mark Ashford |url=https://www.lag.org.uk/profiles/203037/mark-ashford |publisher=Legal Action Group |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Youth Justice Legal Centre">{{cite web |title=Mark Ashford |url=https://yjlc.uk/about-us/our-people/mark-ashford |publisher=Youth Justice Legal Centre |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Edwards-2011">{{cite journal |last=Edwards |first=Anthony |title=Will defendants survive changes to criminal legal aid? |journal=Criminal Justice Matters |volume=86 |issue=1 |year=2011 |pages=30–32 |doi=10.1080/09627251.2011.646212}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Chambers and Partners">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP – UK 2026 |url=https://chambers.com/law-firm/tv-edwards-llp-uk-1:5750 |publisher=Chambers and Partners |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Chambers and Partners-2">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP – Crime – London (Firms) |url=https://chambers.com/department/tv-edwards-llp-crime-uk-1:347:11814:1:5750 |publisher=Chambers and Partners |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Chambers and Partners-3">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP – Family/Children Law – London (Firms) |url=https://chambers.com/department/tv-edwards-llp-family-children-law-uk-1:3494:11814:1:5750 |publisher=Chambers and Partners |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Chambers and Partners-4">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards LLP – Social Housing: Tenants – UK-wide |url=https://chambers.com/department/tv-edwards-llp-social-housing-tenants-uk-1:1316:11805:1:5750 |publisher=Chambers and Partners |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="The Legal 500-2">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards Solicitors LLP – Social housing: tenant – London |url=https://www.legal500.com/rankings/ranking/c-london/real-estate/social-housing-tenant/3239-tv-edwards-solicitors-llp |publisher=The Legal 500 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="The Legal 500">{{cite web |title=TV Edwards Solicitors LLP – Court of protection – London |url=https://www.legal500.com/rankings/ranking/c-london/private-client/court-of-protection/3239-tv-edwards-solicitors-llp |publisher=The Legal 500 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette-2025b">{{cite news |title=Firm hire: TV Edwards Solicitors appoints head of public law children |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/movers/firm-hire-tv-edwards-solicitors-appoints-head-of-public-law-children/5124273.article |work=Law Society Gazette |year=2025 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Jones-2026">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Scott |title=New family law service tackles misunderstanding around neurodivergency |url=https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/new-family-law-service-tackles-misunderstanding-around-neurodivergency |work=Legal Futures |date=10 June 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Lewis-2026">{{cite web |last=Lewis |first=Alia |title=How does the legal profession become neuroinclusive? |url=https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/blog/how-does-the-legal-profession-become-neuroinclusive |website=Legal Futures |date=24 July 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Attfield-Tomes-2026">{{cite news |last=Attfield-Tomes |first=Olly |title=Three new Heads announced at leading London-based law firm |url=https://www.uknewsgroup.co.uk/three-new-heads-announced-at-leading-london-based-law-firm/ |work=UK News Group |date=12 September 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Today's Conveyancer-2026">{{cite news |title=The BCAs go north – British Conveyancing Awards take Manchester by storm |url=https://todaysconveyancer.co.uk/the-bcas-come-north-british-conveyancing-awards-takes-manchester-by-storm/ |work=Today's Conveyancer |date=16 March 2026 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="The National Archives-2014">{{cite web |title=A Local Authority v DG & Ors [2014] EWHC 63 (Fam) |url=https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2014/63 |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |date=24 January 2014 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="The National Archives-2017">{{cite web |title=Re SL (Permission to Vaccinate) [2017] EWHC 125 (Fam) |url=https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2017/125 |publisher=The National Archives |date=30 January 2017 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="English-2017">{{cite web |last=English |first=Rosalind |title=Should courts order vaccination against parents' wishes? |url=https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2017/02/08/should-courts-order-vaccination-against-parents-wishes |website=UK Human Rights Blog |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="The National Archives-2019">{{cite web |title=B (Children: Uncertain Perpetrator) [2019] EWCA Civ 575 |url=https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2019/575 |publisher=The National Archives |date=4 April 2019 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="Law Society Gazette-2019b">{{cite news |title=Family proceedings: Evidence |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law-reports/family-proceedings-evidence/5104398.article |work=Law Society Gazette |year=2019 |access-date=26 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
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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
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