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Tony
Fisher
, Senior Partnership Member
With over twenty five years experience in the profession, Tony (together with David Jones) is one of the founding members of the firm. In addition to having general responsibility for the management of the firm (having taken an MBA in law firm management), he undertakes Company/Commercial and partnership work. He also advises charities. He has wide experience in mergers and acquisitions and drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
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Louise
Boyes
, Partnership Member
Louise is a Solicitor specialising in business and private immigration law and in particular commercial immigration cases, including work permits and applications for investors, sole representatives, business persons and highly skilled migrants.
Louise also undertakes company/commercial work with a cross border/international element, as well as public law work.
Louise is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. She is also a founding member and secretary of the Union of International Advocates’ Immigration working group. She has extensive experience of conducting cases in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal as well as in the Administrative (High) Court and Court of Appeal. Having studied law at the University of Essex and the College of Law, York, Louise undertook her training at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP qualifying as a Solicitor in November 1999. She became a Partnership Member in 2003. Louise is ranked in Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2007 in Immigration East Anglia (Band 1).
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Yvonne
Spencer
, Partnership Member
Solicitor Advocate Yvonne Spencer specialises in all aspects of public law, judicial review, human rights and education law. Yvonne advises and represents commercial clients including schools, colleges, universities, local authorities, associations and charities, care home providers, and nursery and early years providers.
Yvonne also provides public law services for professionals who wish to challenge decisions made by The Secretary of State or bodies such as Ofsted, or CSCI e.g. failed inspections, listings on List 99, POVA and POCA. As a solicitor advocate she appears on behalf of clients in The Care Standards Tribunal, The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal, and all the higher courts including the High Court and Court of Appeal, thus providing a seamless service for the firm’s clients.
In June 2004 Yvonne was named as the Law Society Gazette’s ‘Lawyer in the News’, when she appeared in the High Court for the Muslim schoolgirl Shabina Begum. Yvonne has a Masters degree in Human Rights, and is Hon. Secretary of the Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA); a Director of the Education Law Association (ELAS); and a Governor at the Royal Hospital School, Suffolk.
Her recent publications include ‘The Education Law Handbook’, Butterworth’s ‘Education Law Manual’, and ‘Education Law Update – law made simple’. Before joining the firm, Yvonne was Deputy Director of the Children’s Legal Centre at the University of Essex.
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