Nigel Priestley

24/02/2022

One of our stars!

Rosie Turner, Solicitor in our Care and Public Law team at Huddersfield, presented to a multi party parliamentary committee yesterday about Special Guardianship orders. Attendees included members of both the and the . The invitation came to our nationally renowned Public law team from Family Rights Group. Our public law team Solicitors Rosie, Nigel Priestley, Sarah Brown, Helen Moody and Michelle Silcox have all been working with the Family Rights Group for a long time. Rosie took up the challenge on behalf of her colleagues and did a super job and was commended by members of the panel.

04/12/2021

The BBC says that tomorrow is going to be dry! Carols in the Park starts at 4.00. We’ll be collecting for Simon on the Streets a local charity working with the homeless. Often people don’t carry cash so we’ve set up an easy way to support Simon on the Street

We have set up a TEXT donating facility for Carols in the Park.

If you would like to donate to support the work of Simon on the Streets, a charity which works with the homeless in Kirklees, in this way please follow these simple instructions:-
Text SIMON followed by your donation amount to 70490
For example to donate £5, text SIMON5 to 70490
You will then be asked for permission to claim gift aid (it’s a one click response, where you will then be asked to enter your name and address. Just ignore the message if you are not a tax payer)
Texts will cost the amount of the donation, plus one standard network rate message

19/09/2018

Was this ever on my bucket list - an article in The Times?!

Councils are required by law to consider placing children with family or friends before opting for an unrelated foster carer – yet just 17 per cent of children who went into care last year were...

30/07/2017

It's a privilege to see that cases brought by Ridley and Hall are being referred to in Ireland as the way in which Ireland should support grandparent carers!

Maybe we should open the first Ridley and Hall office in Dublin. The article refers to two cases that we brought which made sure that kinship carers in ...