Nigel Humphreys, Solicitor Advocate
Nigel was admitted as a solicitor in 1979, and has over 25 years’ experience in all areas of general litigation and advocacy, but now specialises in family and children work. He is married with 2 children and has served for many years as a school governor.
He was appointed a member of the Law Society Children Panel in 1993, a Resolution Accredited specialist in January 2000 (children and finances), and obtained Higher Court Advocacy rights in Civil Proceedings in January 2004.
As a full time criminal prosecutor in Birmingham for 5 years he appeared daily as an advocate and has conducted many criminal trials in the magistrates’ Courts, both for the prosecution and the defence. More recently as an advocate in care proceedings he has conducted numerous contested hearings before District and Circuit judges lasting up to 5 days. He has extensive experience of financial and ancillary relief cases, including representing clients at final contested hearings. Nigel has a special interest and has developed some expertise in cohabitation property disputes, involving difficult issues of Trust and Property law.
With his colleague Yvonne Spencer, he is a contributor to the Legal Action Group Journal on Children and Family Law Issues, and regularly writes articles on legal issues. As a partnership member in the Family Team at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP he is responsible for their in-house legal training programme, and has recently given an external training course in Pensions on Divorce for the Law Society.
Other Solicitor Advocates: Chris Graves | Yvonne Spencer